In the heart of Hill City, the Best Western Golden Spike Inn & Suites, Hill City, South Dakota, is a family-owned base for the Black Hills, with spacious rooms and two-room family suites, indoor and outdoor pools, a hot tub, a fitness center, business services, and a full hot breakfast. The hotel welcomes pets.
The setting puts hiking and biking on the Mickelson Trail, fishing, and golf close by, with a scenic vintage railroad running from town. Bear Country, a cave or two, and a wild-horse sanctuary are all within reach.
About fifteen minutes away, the sixty-foot granite faces of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln gaze out from Mount Rushmore National Memorial, carved into a peak of the Black Hills, a range long held sacred by the Lakota, with a visitor center, the Presidential Trail, and an evening lighting ceremony in summer, and the soaring Crazy Horse Memorial and the bison herds of Custer State Park close by. At dusk the great carved faces catch the last gold light above the pines.