If you’ve ever visited the Black Hills on a vacation package deal, you probably used Black Hills Central Reservations. And you might not have known it, either; they’re a bit of a behind-the-scenes bunch, taking care of all the work it takes to bundle hotels, attraction tickets and rental cars into one flat-rate purchase. For ye average traveler, the benefit is only having to swipe your credit card once – and you usually get some sort of cost savings to boot. Imagine a sort of Travelocity for the Black Hills.

For the past several months, CenRes (for the sake of using cool abbreviations) has been working on upgrading their website, and they finally went live with it this week at www.blackhillsvacations.com.

The site works a lot like Travelocity or Expedia. If you know exactly what you want, you can search any travel product (hotel room, campsite, car, airline, event tickets or even snowmobiles) and drill down to specific dates and locations. On the other hand, if you’ve got no clue what you want to do, you can browse vacation packages that are grouped by type (are you more in the market for a romantic getaway or a camping adventure with the guys?) and see what options are available.

The whole site is linked with Google Maps, so you can see exactly where specific hotels and venues are set within the Black Hills – and how close they are to alternatives.