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Yes, its designation is "Mount Rushmore National Memorial."
The parking lot, visitor center, and all viewing areas are whell-chair accessible.
Tourism is South Dakota's second-largest industry, and Mount Rushmore is its top tourist attraction. In 2004, over two million visitors traveled to the memorial.[4] The site is also home to the final concerts of Rushmore Music Camp and attracts many visitors over the week of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
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It was designed as a tourist site, and met every expectation.
* Crazy Horse Memorial * Hills National Forest * Badlands National Park * National Caves * Minuteman Missile National Historic Site * State Parks * Scenic byways
That would be Mount Rushmore, which got 2,331,237 visitors in 2010.
Mount Rushmore is not a World Heritage site. It has not as of yet, been nominated for status as a World Heritage site. The USA currently has 12 properties on the tentative list of World heritage sites.
The site received between 2.5 and 2.9 million visitors per year between 2000 and 2007.
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Thomas Jefferson's likeness was initially planned to appear on George Washington's right. However due to poor quality of rock at the chosen site the work was dynamited and a new image was created on its present location.
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