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  • 12654 S. Hwy. 16
     Hill City, South Dakota 57745
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Noel F.
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Mountain View Lodge

  • July 9, 2007
  • Rated 4 of 5 by Noel F. from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mountain View Lodge

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On April 18, I started making calls to reserve a motel room or cabin in the Mount Rushmore area. We preferred a cabin, so we could have a separate room from our daughter. I didn’t know how to find all the possibilities, and I was finding "NO vacancy" everywhere...until I stumbled upon Black Hills Central Reservations - (800) 529-0105. They searched and found a cabin for us that appeared to be the last thing available for that week, even that far ahead—more than 2-1/2 months before the 4th of July.

The rate was higher than ideal for us, but as I looked over the reservation confirmation that I received by email, I realized that the cabin could accommodate up to eight people. So we invited friends that we used to vacation with when we were all more newly wed. We would be six —two upper-middle-aged (lower upper-aged?) couples and our daughters, a 19-year-old college student and an 11-year-old middle schooler. The older is sweet about connecting with the younger. And the younger looks up to the older and loves to be with her.

Mountainview Lodge, outside Hill City
www.mountainviewlodge.net

Our cabin was the best-sited one at a nicely located resort, made up of a few cabins and several motel-like rooms. It was the only cabin that had room for eight people—two double or queen in separate bedrooms, one futon in the main room, one double mattress in the open loft above the main room. The numbers were 19 and 20, because one of the bedrooms had a separate entrance from the main cabin—around the back and on the lower level.

Each cabin has a gas grill on the deck. At the "motel" area, there is a central grill area. The kitchenette included microwave, single-burner hotplate, small refrigerator, which was adequate for our simple cooking. (One picture on the website shows a kitchenette with a stove, but that must have been a different cabin.) The closest grocery store was in Hill City, about 4 miles away. We bought our ice for our cooler each day at the Mountainview office. They also provided smaller bags free for guests’ beverages.

Mountainview has a small, but nicely-kept pool and an above-ground well-kept hot tub. Across the highway (fast traffic on a curve—watch out!) is a Dairy-Queen-type ice cream place and a mini-golf course. If you hit the last hole right, you win a free game. We won two, which netted two more, but we’d run out of time so gave them to the young women at the front desk at Mountainview.

A couple of nights a week, Mountainview provides a campfire and s’mores. There are also rock-ringed fire pits beside the individual cabins.

Mountainview is 10 miles from Rushmore, 15 miles from Crazy Horse and 15 miles from Custer State Park—all beautiful drives.

Reservations at Mountainview may be made through Black Hills Central Reservations (800-529-0105) or directly ((605) 574-2236 | Toll Free: (800) 789-7411.

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