Interstate Highway 90 connects with U.S. Highway 16 in Rapid City and travelers must then travel southwest to connect with South Dakota Highway 244 to the park entrance.

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Crews are close to finishing highway projects to improve the well-traveled byways from Interstate 90 through Rapid City and on to Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial History In 1925, a local historian, Doane Robinson, invited sculptor Gutzon Borglum to South Dakota to scout the Black Hills for a possible monument.

By Car Motorists heading to Mount Rushmore or Rapid City can use Interstate Highway 90, which runs between Seattle and Boston.