Bars in Rapid City

Rapid City's downtown bar and restaurant scene serves the Black Hills' most important gateway city — a community where the extraordinary Mount Rushmore tourism economy, the remarkable Native American cultural heritage of the surrounding Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations, and the genuine Western character of the Black Hills create a bar culture of unusual South Dakota historical and cultural depth.

Cottonwood Bar serves Rapid City's Black Hills tourism economy and residential community with a welcoming bar atmosphere and South Dakota-produced beverages. Rapid City's year-round tourism market (Sturgis Rally, Mount Rushmore, Badlands, Black Hills) creates a bar environment that serves both South Dakota residents and visitors from across the country with genuine Western hospitality.

Depot Bar is Rapid City's most atmospheric neighborhood bar — serving the Black Hills gateway city's tourism market and residential community in a classic Western bar setting. Rapid City's unique identity as both a gateway to national monuments and an independent western city creates a bar culture that is simultaneously welcoming to tourists and genuinely authentic to South Dakota's frontier heritage.

Hay Camp Brewing Company is the Black Hills' most beloved craft brewery — a Rapid City institution producing outstanding ales and lagers that capture the wild character of the western South Dakota landscape. The Black Hills' extraordinary natural beauty and Hay Camp's consistent craft beer quality create a brewery taproom uniquely shaped by the character of America's most spectacular mountain landscape in the northern plains.