City: Rapid City, SD
Category: Accommodations
Address: 23029 Thunderhead Falls Rd.
2. Black Forest Inn Bed & Breakfast Lodge
City: Rapid City, SD
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (605) 574-2000, (800) 888-1607
Address: 23191 US 385
Description: You’ll love the spaciousness here (10,000 square feet and 10 rooms), especially the huge great room with its rock fireplace. A wonderful deck overlooks the lawn and surrounding forest and holds a hot tub that’s waiting just for you. Or settle into the game room, where you can read, play pool or games, or watch television. A homemade breakfast is served in courses on silver and crystal. Meeting rooms are available for retreats and workshops. This is an especially lovely place for reunions, weddings, and anniversary celebrations. Black Forest Inn is centrally located: It’s near Pactola Reservoir, Sheridan Lake, Mount Rushmore, and Rapid City, as well as within a 30-minute drive of every attraction in the Central Hills.
City: Rapid City, SD
Category: Accommodations
Address: 9356 Neck Yoke Rd.
4. Vixie’S Victorian Villa Bed & Breakfast
City: Rapid City, SD
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (605) 343-9234, (877) 343-9234
Address: 10430 Big Piney Rd.
Description: This is a bed-and-breakfast inn locals like to use as a getaway. The owners describe the three-story redwood home nestled in the peaceful pines of Black Hills National Forest as “an oasis of rest where you can experience old-fashioned hospitality and the simple pleasures of a full country-style breakfast.” Each of the four suites has a hot tub, television, and small refrigerator. All the rooms look out on peaceful views. Breakfast is served in the rooms, and the menu varies daily. Coffee is available in the rooms. When you wake in the morning, you may see deer, rabbits, squirrels, and chipmunks outside. Vixie’s is centrally located near Rapid City, 30 miles from Deadwood, across the road from a fine restaurant and lounge, the Fireside Inn.
City: Rapid City, SD
Category: Accommodations
Address: 11515 Sheridan Lake Rd.
6. Whispering Pines Campground & Lodging
City: Rapid City, SD
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (605) 341-3667, (877) 341-3667
Address: 22700 Silver City Rd.
Description: Four camping cabins are for rent here, surrounded by stands of aspen and ponderosa. These are simple one- and two-bedroom sleeping cabins without bathrooms (facilities are nearby), you bring your own bedding. A campground is on the property, too, with a general store and snack bar where breakfast specials are served, and the coffee is always on and free. Nightly cookouts and movies are offered to campers and cabin renters. Whispering Pines also has two luxury vacation homes, which you can read about in the Vacation Homes and Condominiums section of this chapter. The property is on the Centennial Trail (see Recreation) and close to Pactola Reservoir and Central Hills attractions.
City: Rapid City, SD
Category: Accommodations
Address: 523 6th St.
8. ✵Radisson Hotel
City: Rapid City, SD
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (605) 348-8300, (800) 333-3333
Address: 445 Mount Rushmore Rd.
Description: We’ve included this chain hotel here because it’s in the heart of Rapid City and has special accommodations for business travelers. It is located on the corner of busy Mount Rushmore Road and Main Street. The rooms have coffeemakers, microwaves, and dataports. Other amenities include free shuttle to and from Rapid City Regional Airport; restaurant and lounge; banquet facilities; indoor pool and hot tub; exercise area; and business center with fax, copier, and computer. Four rooms are wheelchair accessible. The restaurant at the hotel—Enigma—offers one of the classiest continental dining experiences in the region. Read more about it in the Restaurants chapter.
9. Rushmore Plaza Holiday Inn & Conference Center
City: Rapid City, SD
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (605) 348-4000, (800) 315-2621
Address: 505 North 5th St.
Description: This eight-story chain hotel values service and is adjacent to the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center—convenient for those attending conventions, meetings, or events there. The hotel’s amenities include a lovely atrium, indoor pool, sauna, whirlpool/hot tub, exercise room, cable television and HBO, the Tiffany Grille restaurant, and the Fountain Court lounge. The Presidential Suite has its own Jacuzzi. Pets are allowed (please ask, deposit required). Rapid City also has two Holiday Inn Express hotels (750 Cathedral Dr. and 645 Disk Dr.), which have no restaurant or lounge but do offer free continental breakfast.
10. Edelweiss Mountain Lodging
City: Rapid City, SD
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (605) 574-2430
Address: US 385
Description: A dozen vacation homes are available through Edelweiss Mountain Lodging in the summer, and several of those are available in the winter. The office is off the highway, between Sheridan Lake and Pactola Reservoir; the homes are all in the immediate area. Homes with one to four bedrooms and private baths are available. Some have hot tubs and pool tables, and all but one have fully furnished kitchens. Some of the homes are accessible to the disabled. All have great views of the surrounding pine-covered hills.
11. Whispering Pines Campground & Lodging
City: Rapid City, SD
Category: Accommodations
Telephone: (605) 341-3667
Address: 22700 Silver City Rd.
Description: Whispering Pines has one vacation home—a spacious three-bedroom, two-bath, fully-furnished home that will sleep up to nine. Kitchen, toiletries, linens and cooking utensils are provided. Whispering Pines also rents an 8-by-30-foot fully furnished travel trailer, four camping cabins and provides camping via 46 pull-through RV spots with full hook-ups, and up to 40 tent sites. Fire pits and picnic tables are supplied. The property is on the Centennial Trail (see Recreation) and close to Pactola Reservoir and Central Hills attractions.