Mount Rushmore — Live Cam

This camera looks across to Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota — the 60-foot granite faces of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, carved into the mountainside between 1927 and 1941 under sculptor Gutzon Borglum. The monument draws around two million visitors a year and is one of the most recognizable landmarks in the United States. The light on the carving changes dramatically through the day: mornings often give the cleanest, most frontal light on the four faces, while afternoon brings shadow and depth. South Dakota is on Mountain Time, three hours behind Hawaii. In summer, the nightly lighting ceremony illuminates the sculpture after dark — a moving tribute that's part of the visit for many. Winter dusts the granite and surrounding ponderosa pines with snow. Mount Rushmore anchors a region full of attractions: the in-progress Crazy Horse Memorial nearby, the wildlife and scenic loops of Custer State Park, the Needles Highway, and the Badlands a short drive east. The memorial sits at about 5,700 feet in the cool, pine-covered Black Hills.