All sights in South Dakota

Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

The editors: James & Alex

Heartland Country Corn Maze

Posted by James Turnbull, Tuesday, 25th October 2005

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Please note that some or all of the objects mentioned in this post are no longer visible on Google Earth or Google Maps.

The 2002 design of the Heartland Country Corn Maze near Harrisburg was a coyote howling at the moon (with the letters USA in the lower right corner). This year they drew a 6.6 acre triceratops.

Thanks: David Thornton

Crazy Horse Memorial

Posted by James Turnbull, Tuesday, 10th May 2005

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A few miles from Mount Rushmore is the Crazy Horse Memorial which Korczak Ziolkowski started carving singlehandedly in 1948 and it’s not expected to be finished any time soon.

Although the satellite photo is not the best shot you can almost make out Crazy Horse’s 87 foot head in the piece of rock just south of the red-roofed building (it may help to compare to this photo) and his arm extending to the south-east. If you scroll to the south west you’ll find the visitors centre who have more information on the project at crazyhorse.org.

Crazy Horse

Thanks: Stephen Johnson & many others

Mount Rushmore

Posted by James Turnbull, Friday, 8th April 2005

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Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a 60ft rock carving featuring (left to right) former U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

Mt. Rushmore

Props to xylon (and many others).