Black Hills: Rapid City to Mount Rushmore and Custer with a travel trailer or RV
Black Hills runs 77 miles from Rapid City to Hot Springs. With an RV, you're looking at 2 h 35 min behind the wheel. Our map shows it sealed the whole way.
We planned it on Motocamp's own router for an RV and for a truck and travel trailer, at the sizes in the table below, so every number here comes from a real plan, not a guess.
The stops: Rapid City · Keystone · Custer · Hot Springs
Is Black Hills OK for an RV?
Yes, on our plan. It gets through for an RV without using a road signed too low, too short or closed to trailers. Here's what to keep an eye on.
- It keeps you off 1 nearby road with a signed limit your rig wouldn't clear, like Doane Robinson Tunnel (12 ft 6 in high).
The plan, rig by rig
| RV | Truck and travel trailer | |
|---|---|---|
| Distance | 77 miles | 77 miles |
| Driving time | 2 h 35 min | 2 h 45 min |
| Unsealed | none | none |
| Steeper than 8% | under a mile | under a mile |
| Total climb | 4,846 ft | 4,846 ft |
| Longest gap between fuel | not on our map | not on our map |
| Signed limits it goes round | 1 | 0 |
| Planned at | 13 ft 1 in high, 40 ft long and 26,455 lb | 11 ft 6 in high, 38 ft 1 in long and 11,464 lb |
Towns on the way
- Rapid City · mile 0
- Hill City · mile 32
- Custer · mile 45
- Hot Springs · mile 77
RV parks on the way
- Rapid City RV Park & Campground · mile 4
- Black Hills RV Park · mile 6
- Happy Holidays RV Resort · mile 7
- Custer's Gulch RV Park and Campground · mile 45
- Koa · mile 47
- Broken Arrow RV Park · mile 50
National park and other campgrounds
- Central States Fairgrounds · mile 0 · fees apply
- Central Hills - Rapid City · mile 6
- Shadows of Rushmore · mile 11
- Horsethief Lake Campground · mile 25 · fees apply
- Willow Creek Horse Camp · mile 29 · fees apply
- Oreville Campground · mile 37 · fees apply
- Fort Welikit Family Campground · mile 45
- Buffalo Ridge Camp Resort · mile 47
- Elk Mountain Campground · mile 65 · fees apply
- Sunrise Ridge Campground · mile 75
- and 14 more in the app
Dump points
- at Rapid City RV Park & Campground · mile 4
- at Happy Holidays RV Resort · mile 7
- at Shadows of Rushmore · mile 11
- at Custer's Gulch RV Park and Campground · mile 45
Plan this trip for your own rig
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Tell Motocamp what you drive, from an enduro bike to a 40-foot RV, and it plans this trip for that vehicle: the roads it fits, the low bridges and closed roads to steer clear of, and places to stay on the way. The maps keep working where there's no signal.
Plan this trip for your own rig Already have Motocamp USA? Open it hereCamps, fuel and road limits come from OpenStreetMap and state agencies, and some can be missing or out of date. Distances are along our plan. Always go by the signs on the road.