In coordination with the Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup and Arts Festival weekend, Crazy Horse Memorial® will be hosting the 11th Annual Fall Volksmarch, the most popular organized hike in the United States, on Sunday, October 1, 2023. New this fall will be the option of either a 5k or 10k hike. This family event is sponsored by the Black Hills Chapter of the American Volkssport Association (AVA) and hosted by Crazy Horse Memorial. Hikers will follow dirt trails and gravel roads up to the Crazy Horse Mountain Carving. The turn-around point is on the Arm of Crazy Horse directly in front of the nine-story-high Face, which was dedicated on June 3, 1998. Hikers will get an up-close view of the Carving, where work continues on the world’s largest sculpture in progress.
In continued celebration of our 75th Anniversary and memory of the late Ruth Ziolkowski, admission to the Memorial for hikers will be waived with a donation of three canned food items for the KOTA Territory Care & Share Food Drive. Hike participants pay the American Volkssport Association’s fee of $3 per person, regardless of age. Regular admission still applies to non-participants. Parking is free, with courtesy shuttle buses operating between the outlying parking lots and the start-finish area.
Advance registration is not available; gates open at 6:00am and registration begins at 7:00am at the starting point in the Memorial’s upper parking area, and ends at 1:00pm. The hike itself starts at 8:00am and all hikers must be off the trail by 4:00pm. There are no late starts. Water stations and port-a-potties will be located along the trail for your convenience. A breakfast buffet will be available in Laughing Water Restaurant from 6:00am to 10:00am.
For more information, please visit www.crazyhorsememorial.org and follow Crazy Horse Memorial on all social media and/or or contact Amanda Allcock at
605-673-4681 or email Amanda.Allcock@
