Historic Inn, Fine Dining and Meeting Center
scheduled to open spring 2009

For more than 100 years, the Rough Riders Hotel has served as Medora’s landmark. Since it was rebuilt in the 1960s it has become one of North Dakota’s best known places. Now the hotel is going to be transformed into a major North Dakota attraction while retaining its historical integrity.

As Medora has grown, the Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation’s need for additional seasonal personnel has grown with it; 50 units of The Bunkhouse Motel have been converted to seasonal employees’ and volunteers’ quarters. Today, Medora’s most critical needs are additional lodging, and more upscale lodging.

The Rough Riders Hotel Town Square will help us meet that need, with 51 new guest rooms, in addition to giving us a year-around fine dining restaurant and meeting center, allowing us to reach our long-term goal of being a year-around destination.

Our vision is to expand the existing hotel, leaving the current historical rooms in place, and build a new, modern kitchen, dining room, guest rooms, and meeting space for small and midsize groups wanting to host meetings and conventions in North Dakota’s most historic and picturesque setting.

With a projected cost for construction and financing at more than $9 million, the Rough Riders Hotel Town Square project is the single most ambitious project in the history of Medora. Construction has already begun, with the first phase being completed by the summer of 2009 and the complete project being completed by the summer of 2010.