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Attractions near Boulder Canyon

Leave Boulder Canyon for Mount Rushmore National Memorial, 36 mi away

Roughly 1.9M visitors a year make it to Mount Rushmore National Memorial. No place to visit is mapped inside Boulder Canyon; 14 are within 40 miles. There are 4 museums, 2 ski areas and a national memorial to choose from. The big name further out is Devils Tower National Monument, 56 mi from the centre.

Attractions nearby
19
within 60 miles
The big one
36 mi
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
National park units
4
parks & monuments
Ski areas
2
Terry Peak Ski Area
Big draws
3
100K+ Wikipedia readers a year
National Memorial · 36 mi south

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Mountain in South Dakota featuring a sculpture of four US presidents.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

The map

How they lie

Furthest from the centre is Crazy Horse Memorial, 39 mi away.

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Orange: Boulder Canyon. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors

Everything nearby

All of them, one by one

All 19 on the list lie within 60 miles.

Black Elk Peak

Mountain · 37 mi south · read 44K times a year on Wikipedia

Tallest mountain in the US state of South Dakota, and the tallest mountain in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains.

Towns near it → · Wikipedia

Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.

Parks and trails in Boulder Canyon → · Boulder Canyon’s history →

Sources: National Park Service · ski areas © OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata · Wikipedia readership · photos via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credits

Mount Rushmore National Memorial: Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Devils Tower National Monument: Ealdgyth, CC BY 3.0 · Crazy Horse Memorial: Jeffreylcooke, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Black Elk Peak: BHrock at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Custer State Park: Guimir, Public domain · Wind Cave National Park: USGS/USGov, Public domain · Black Hills National Forest: Vocaro at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Bedrock City: Tbennert, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Black Hills Central Railroad: Eric Friedebach, CC BY 3.0 · Rushmore Plaza Civic Center: Mr. Satterly, WTFPL · Dinosaur Park: Minnesota Jones at en.wikipedia, Public domain · Reptile Gardens: Mark Goebel from Taos, New Mexico, USA, CC BY 2.0 · South Dakota Air and Space Museum: User:Jaydec, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lincoln Borglum Museum: National Park Service, Public domain · The Journey Museum and Gardens: Tbennert, CC BY-SA 3.0

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