23101 Triangle Trail, Rapid City, South
Dakota 57702
Call for reservations: 605-342-8444
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100 years of Hisega Lodge
Top left: Summer open cars on the Rapid
City Black Hills & Western railroad, which locals called
the Crouch Line. The building on the right edge of the photo is
the Pierre Lodge, now Hisega Lodge.
Above: The Rapid Canyon Line railbus
passed by the lodge in the 1920’s.
Left: Pierre Lodge, around 1910.
Below: Picnickers on the train from Rapid
City to Mystic.
Bottom left: You can’t miss the
Pierre Lodge on this old map of the hills.
Hisega was founded in 1908, and a year
later, Pierre Lodge was built by a group from South Dakota’s
state capitol.
The train turned and twisted from Rapid
City to Mystic, and the tracks passed directly in front of the
lodge, a popular stop along the way.
The lodge was held by this group until
1929, when Carl and Jessie Sanders leased and later purchased
the property, renamed it the
Triangle I,
and operated it as a popular tourist destination. Lodging,
meals, marshmallow roasts, horseback riding and dancing were
all part of the fun for the groups who stayed a week and toured
the Black Hills.
In 1969, local entrepreneur Hoadley Dean
purchased the lodge from Carl and Jessie as a private resort.
Over the years this SD Hall of Famer and his family hosted
scores of guests at what was then called the H-Bar-D Lodge. Later,
Hoadley’s son Kip ran the lodge as a bed and breakfast.
The name has since been changed to Hisega Lodge, but
the tradition of hospitality and friendship lives on at the
center of this unique community.
