Rapid City

Alex Johnson Hotel
523 6th St

523 6th st., +1 605 342-1210. downtown; convenient to i-90.

Best Western Town and Country Inn
2505 Mount Rushmore Rd S Highway 16

2505 mt. rushmore highway, +1 605 343-5383, (http://www.blackhillsbadl...). on the way to mount rushmore and other attractions in the black hills. internet access; continental breakfast included, but a good restaurant for hot breakfasts, etc., is nearby. large seasonal variations in room rates from $109 mid-summer, $59 in winter.

Microtel Inn & Suites Rapid City
1416 N. Elk Vale Rd.

1740 rapp street, +1 605 348-2523, (http://microtelinn.com/re...).

Radisson Hotel

445 mt. rushmore highway corner of mt. rushmore and main, +1 505 348-8300, (http://www.radisson.com/r...). a "hotel" rather than a motel/motor lodge, with several hotel-type amenities. starbucks on site.

For easy access to I-90, look up the many hotels off LaCrosse St in North Rapid. Hotels and motels in Rapid City tend to have substantial seasonal variations in room rates, as Rapid City is a busy jumping-off point for the Black Hills in summer but frozen into torpor in the winter.

Campgrounds are strewn all along Mount Rushmore Highway.

River View Lodge
18 miles north of New Underwood

Family-run rural getaway situated on a 100 year old working cattle ranch on the banks of the Belle Fourche River.