We stayed for a week. We were able to cook or conveniently walk into town to eat at any of the wonderful restaurants, watch a shoot-out or to gamble. All major highways were easily accessible to take day trips to Mount Rushmore, the Badlands, Devil's tower, Homestake Mine, Broken Boot Mine Tour, Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Roosevelt's Tower and Custer State Park. We visited the many Deadwood and Lead museums and City Hall, We had a wonderful time talking with the Deadwood archivist, Michael Runge, about the history of Deadwood. He was super knowledgeable and had a huge display of old artifacts from the 1800's found during excavations. It was a great trip!