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Waited until later in the year to decide to go this year. Had trouble finding a place to stay and stumbled on the School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City. They rent out their dorm rooms during rally week. It was just a dorm room, but it slept 4 and had a shower for ~500/4 nights.
All that $$$$$$ to probably get rained on about every day huh and ride in heavy traffic jams? LOLOLOL.
No thank you and I live here.
Probably go up the weekend before and call it good.
Sleep Inn in Rapid City. We stayed there this year. Decent free breakfast. They have supplies each day to wash your bike for free. A little pricey but very clean and new.
Just checked Sleep Inn in Rapid City. They have rooms available for $355 per night. They were the second lowest in price. Prices range from $336 to $640.
We stayed in Chadron, NE at the Motel 6. Very nice and recently remodeled. (this was in 2008.) A little bit of a commute, but a nice little ride. I forget the motel rate, but it beat the $200 a night we spent in Spearfish at the Super 8 on the first night of the rally. (we trailered to Chadron then took off from there out to Jackson Hole, Yellowstone, Bear Tooth Pass, Cody, WY, and then back into Sturgis (Spearfish) for the rally. 2500 miles after unloading and taking off before we got back to our trailers. Then a couple of days back and forth to Sturgis. You "non-trailering" ***** can flame on all you want to, but that is the way we wanted to do it, so we did! (A great trip by the way!)
There's a college dorm in Spearfish, cost me and the wife $100 a night. Not very nice but affordable enough. Communal bathrooms and no A/C. Full of bikers for the week.
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