We're at 20446 State Highway 79, Sturgis, SD 57785 — right on Highway 79 between the Sturgis Dragway and Bear Butte, about 4.5 miles from Main Street. That's roughly a ten-minute ride, and you're on pavement the whole way.

The address matters more than most people realize. Highway 79 runs north out of town, which means you skip the worst of the downtown gridlock coming and going. Buffalo Chip and Rock N the Rally are directly across from us. Full Throttle Saloon and the Broken Spoke are both a short run up the road. Bear Butte State Park — the one you keep seeing in everybody's photos — is close enough that people walk out of their campers at sunrise and just look at it.

If you're coming in from I-90, take Exit 32 into Sturgis and head north on 79. If you're coming down from North Dakota or Belle Fourche, you'll pass Bear Butte and we're on your right before the dragway.

Cell service out here is decent on most carriers, but it degrades hard during rally week when 400,000 people show up with phones. Download your maps before you leave home.

The 87th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally runs August 6–15, 2027. Book as early as you can — our full-hookup RV sites and cabins are the first things to go, and they typically go months out.

Here's the honest version of how it works. Tent spots and no-hookup RV spots stay available the longest, sometimes right up to rally week. Electric and water sites tighten up in the spring. Full hookups and cabins are the bottleneck, because there are only so many of them and a lot of the same people come back year after year and claim them before anybody else gets a shot.

A lot of folks book the following year before they leave. That's not a sales pitch, it's just what happens when you've been doing this since 1998.

If you're a first-timer trying to decide how many days to take: most people underestimate. The Thursday and Friday before the official start are already busy, and the first weekend is when the roads are at their best before the crowds peak. Coming in early is cheaper and calmer. Call us about early-arrival rates rather than assuming you'll figure it out when you get here.

Both, and that's on purpose. We run live bands every night, karaoke, a happy hour from 5 to 7, and a restaurant that's open from 6:30 in the morning until 1 a.m. But the camping areas sit back from all of it, so you can be in the middle of the noise when you want to be and sleep when you're done.

We call it semi-quiet, which is the most accurate thing we can say without lying to you. This is Sturgis during rally week. There are bikes on Highway 79 at every hour, and Buffalo Chip is across the road. If you need silence after 10 p.m., no campground within twenty miles of Sturgis is going to give you that, and anybody who tells you otherwise is selling something.

What we do give you is separation. You're not camped fifteen feet from a stage. You can walk to the music in two minutes and walk away from it just as fast. For couples, for people who ride hard all day and want to actually recover, and for anybody who's aged out of the campground-as-nightclub model but hasn't aged out of the rally, that balance is the whole reason they keep coming back.

We have pull-through sites up to 80 feet by 30 feet, so a big diesel pusher with double or triple slide-outs and a trailer behind it is not a problem. Every site is pull-through — you're not backing anything in with a crowd watching.

Hookup options, from most to least:

• Full hookups — electric, water, and sewer at the site
• 30 amp electric and water
• 50 amp electric
• 20/30 amp electric
• No hookups — plenty of room, and generators are allowed

There's an RV dump station and a fresh water fill on site, so no-hookup campers aren't stranded. Bring a decent length of hose and cord regardless; site geometry varies and the 25-foot cord that works at every KOA in America occasionally won't reach here.

One thing worth knowing about our pricing: RV rates are charged as a rate for the rig plus a per-person rate for everybody in it. That trips up first-timers who compare our number against a flat per-site price somewhere else. Check the rates page for current numbers, or call and we'll run it for your group in about thirty seconds.

Less than you think, because we have hot showers, flush toilets, a laundromat, a general store, ice, and a restaurant on site. What you can't buy from us is a tent that survives a Black Hills thunderstorm.

Bring these:

• Real stakes. The wire stakes in the bag are useless here. Ground is hard, wind comes off the plains fast, and August storms arrive sideways with no warning.
• A rain fly you've actually tested.
• Layers. It can hit 100 during the day and drop into the 50s overnight. People pack for one of those and regret it.
• Sun protection. You're at 3,400 feet with almost no shade. The sunburn happens on day one.
• Earplugs. Cheap, tiny, and the single best thing you can put in your saddlebag.

Some tent sites have electric available — ask when you book if you need it for a CPAP or a fan. Picnic tables and Wi-Fi come with the site.

Don't bring firewood from home. South Dakota has restrictions on transporting it because of invasive pests, and you can buy it here.

Our cabins are dry cabins that sleep up to four. You get beds, air conditioning, a refrigerator, and a table and chairs. You do not get a bathroom, a shower, or a kitchen inside the cabin — you use the same hot showers and flush toilets everybody else uses, which are a short walk away.

We say "dry" up front because that's the number one misunderstanding in the whole campground, and we'd rather you know before you're standing in the doorway. What you're getting is a locking door, a real bed, a cold fridge for your drinks, and air conditioning at the end of a 95-degree day. That last part is worth more than people expect after four days in a tent.

Bring your own bedding — sheets, sleeping bag, pillows, towels. We provide the bed, not the linens.

Cabin check-in is 2 p.m. and checkout is 10 a.m. Cabins are the first thing that sells out for rally week, and they get booked in blocks covering the front half, the back half, or the entire rally. Call (877) 700-4766 for cabin availability rather than waiting on an email.

Da Bus. We partner with the shuttle service so you can leave the bike parked and still get to Main Street and back. That's the entire point of it — nobody's rally should end with a DUI or worse on a dark stretch of Highway 79.

Distances from our front gate, so you can plan a night:

• Buffalo Chip / Rock N the Rally — directly across from us
• Full Throttle Saloon — a few minutes up Highway 79
• Broken Spoke Saloon — close enough to hit on the same night
• Main Street, Sturgis — about 4.5 miles
• Bear Butte State Park — just north of us on 79

Being on this side of town is a genuine advantage on concert nights. When a big Buffalo Chip headliner lets out, the traffic pouring back toward Sturgis is brutal, and you're crossing the highway instead of sitting in it.

You can also ride out to Deadwood, Spearfish Canyon, Mount Rushmore, or the Needles Highway and be back the same day. Highway 79 puts you on the north end of all of it.

Short list, and we mean all of it:

• Wristbands. Wear your Iron Horse wristband on your right wrist at all times. It's how our staff and security know you belong here. No band, no entry — including you, on day three, at 1 a.m.
• Security. We have 24-hour security on the property. It's a real reason people park $40,000 motorcycles here and go to sleep.
• Pets. Pets require special permission arranged before you arrive. Do not show up with a dog and hope. Call ahead and we'll tell you yes or no.
• Generators. Allowed at no-hookup sites. Be a decent neighbor about hours.
• Cancellations. Cancel before July 1 and 80% is refunded. After July 1 there are no refunds. That's firm — during rally week we're turning people away, and a late cancellation is a site that sits empty.

Cabin check-in is 2 p.m., checkout is 10 a.m. Coming in before the rally officially starts? Call about early-arrival rates instead of just rolling in.

Everything else comes down to the same thing: this is a campground full of people who've been coming here for years. Don't be the reason somebody's twentieth rally is their worst one.