Park Rapids, MN

If your interests lie in Native American culture, the Indian Museum may be worth a walk-through, but the rest of the Crazy Horse Memorial is little more than a tourist trap, certainly not worthy of a national monument. Very little progress has been made on the actual sculpture since Korczak's death in 1982 which is disappointing. One would think that completing the sculpture would be a top priority, but the sculpture has been put on the back burner and the priority is to get the tourist dollar in the shops. Go see it so you can say you did and leave it at that.

Des Moines, IA

For two adults and an 8 year old....$25! And they haven't made any progress for years.

Rushmore was done in 14.

All of the Indian artifacts and education may be interesting, but not that much more interesting than all of the other free or inexpensive museums in the area.

Hate to say it, but this thing is ridiculously overpriced. Take a look from the road, then turnaround and leave. Go to your local museum to learn about the American Indian.

Braintree, MA

In June, 2007 my husband, myself and 2 friends went to South Dakota and part of touring was a visit to Crazy Horse Monument. Let me start by saying the entrance fee per vehicle was $25.00. We did not even question the fee because we have travelled extensively thoughout the U.S. and if you want to see things you pay the price. That was fine until we got in, parked the car, went to get the bus to get closer to the Monument and were told due to thunderstorms in the area we would not be allowed to take the bus at this time [which by the way cost another $4.00 per person] and until the storm passed we should go into the Museum - watch the movie and look around. By the way, the lady in the booth collecting the money for the bus was totally rude to our party which at that point we were disgusted. We should have left at that moment. However, we did, in fact, check out the Musuem [which was mostly a gift shop]. We decided that we would not give another $4.00 per person to nothing but a tourist trap. Save your money and visit somewhere else. See it from the entrance!!!

Vista, CA

If you pay close attention to the film shown in the theatre at the Crazy Horse Memorial, you'll notice that no progress has been made since the initial face was carved. Also, no mention of how the entrance fees gets used is mentioned or made available. Does 50%, 75%, or 90% of the fees goes towards the completion of the monument ,or does it go to support the sculpture's many surviving kids? Proceeds don't seem to go toward the Indian exhibits or the hall, all of which seems poorly lit and left to decay. After walking around and seeing the vendors, the stores, and the exhibits, I asked myself what the point of the whole memorial was? It certainly didn't illuminate the white man's history with the Indians or the Indians themselves. I just got this gnawing feeling that nothing was being done to the monument and that money was lining someone's pocket. There should be a webcam with pictures archived to show that real progress is being made. Until then, I think this place is a scam. You're honestly better seeing it from the road

Daphne, Alabama

Don't bother to pay to get in unless you're really interested in more details. If you just want to see the work in progress(it won't be finished for a loooong time) drive past the entrance and look back or approach from the south. You can see it just fine!

Custer,SD

To all that have seen the Crazy Horse Memorial, and those that plan to see it, and even those that havent, As A long time traveler to the Black Hills in South Dakota, I have spent a day on each trip to see the progress of the carving. To see this mounument as it is being done, is like wishing we could have seen the great pyrimids being built, I wounder how long that took? The man and his family have inlisted the rest of their natural lives to this project. And to see it through. How many projects have we dedicated our few hours to and they havent been finished as of yet?
Education, is the key word on this project and many others like it, Mt. Rushmore, Washington Monument, ect. To learn of the Native American ways and to see and hear how they lived, died and faught to keep their lands, is part of being an American, that we all should respect. After all , they were here before the white man.
I would think that a small fee, a few cans of food or 20.00 dollors, ( a cheep nite out on the town ), would be a great gift for the younger generations to be "Educated", of the American Indian.
For those of you that just want to see it from the road, then spend the few dollors it would take to enter Crazy Horse, and invest it in a trail ride to see the area as the Indians, and some of the fore fathers did, either way you should see the Monument from a different point a view, if not just for the freash air, then the feeling of being in the natural beauty.
To all others, If Crazy Horse was completed, would it be a place to see? or then, just another tourist trap,,

New Jersey

Raleigh, NC

For many years I had wanted to see this sculpture ... it was a huge let down. Admission of $10 to the grounds was high. The additional charge to take a bus ride to the base of the mountain where the sculpture is being made was outrageous.

The museum they had built is huge. But half the material there was on the same tackiness level as velvet paintings of Elvis! They also had booths selling stuff scattered throughout the museum. This about ruined it for me.

If you want to visit a great museum, try the Smithsonian's Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. Few of the exhibits at the Crazy Horse Memorial belong in a museum.

The Crazy Horse Memorial is nothing more than a tourist trap (and gravel mine) operating under the guise of a good work! The original designer would be disgusted. Skip it - you can see it from the highway just fine.

Rochester, MN

It was very anti-climatic.
You drive well out of your way to pay a kings randsome for the priveledge of driving down a long and poorly maintained dirt road (washboard most of the way) to a huge parking lot.
There has been very little progress on this monument in the last 15+ years. Defanantly a must NOT see unless you are very interested in the native American culture. There is a nice visitors center, but that's about it!
It only left me wondering where all the money goes that is brought in from the toll to get on that road.
It takes very little to entertain me, I'm a happy-go-lucky kind of person. This was disppointing. You pay way too much money for nothing!!