About

Started at one door downtown.

Viking Brothers, LLC, doing business as Odin’s Gate Guards, was formed in Rapid City in October 2021. It is veteran-operated and owner-run — the person who signs your contract is the person who answers the phone.

The company began with door work in downtown Rapid City. By early 2024 it held contracts at Press Start, Paddy’s, Murphy's and Aby’s, and patrolled between them at no charge — which is how two television stations came to cover it.

Alongside the door work, the company ran an hourly shuttle between downtown and Ellsworth Air Force Base, free to airmen with military identification, started in response to rising DUI arrests. KBHB Radio covered that in October 2023, five months before the security coverage.

The Timberline Security mark: a T and S monogram inside a green and gold triangle.

In August 2024 we acquired the Timberline Security business in Butte, Montana, along with its premises and its phone line. That opened Montana operations, which now run out of Butte and Billings. Billings is the office nearest the disaster-response work on the Crow reservation.

Today the company holds federal armed-guard contracts, staffs construction sites and events across the Black Hills, and still works the same downtown doors it started on.

A note on what changed here

This site used to carry a badge reading “voted #1 Security Company in South Dakota.” We could not identify who ran that vote, so it is gone. What replaced it is a set of things you can go and check yourself: federal contract numbers, a Better Business Bureau file, and two news reports with named sources.

Offices

Where officers dispatch from

A guard has to physically reach your site, so we list the offices they leave from and the towns each one genuinely covers. Wyoming work is taken on contract from Rapid City and Billings; we do not keep an office there.

Headquarters

Rapid City, South Dakota

615 Kansas City St, Rapid City, SD 57701

(605) 786-7263

Headquarters, and where the company started. The downtown contracts KOTA reported on are worked out of here.

Office

Butte, Montana

(406) 490-4866

Opened in August 2024 when we acquired the Timberline Security business, along with its premises and its Butte phone line.

The Butte, Montana premises at number 1750 — a grey and black two-storey building with a Timberline Security sign above the entrance. — Number 1750, Butte. Montana work still runs under the Timberline name; Iron Mountain Storage, on the second sign, is a separate business at the same address.

Office

Billings, Montana

3221 Pureview Ln, Billings, MT 59106

(605) 786-7263

Covers south-central Montana and the Bighorn corridor, including the disaster-response work on the Crow reservation.

The Billings, Montana unit — a commercial building in white siding and dark steel with a cedar-clad entry bay, a glazed office door and a full-height overhead door. — The Billings unit. Montana work runs under the Timberline entity; the overhead bay is what the patrol vehicles run out of.

In the community

The other half of the job

Nightlife security only works if the people in it are on your side. Most of what follows is not billable.

Rides for Ellsworth airmen
An hourly shuttle between downtown Rapid City and Ellsworth Air Force Base, free to airmen with military ID, started in response to rising DUIs. Covered by KBHB Radio in October 2023.
Free patrol between contracts
Officers moving between our downtown contracts patrol the blocks in between at no charge to anyone — reported by KOTA in March 2024.
The Smokin' Turtle book drive
A Rapid City Christmas drive the company supports, collecting books, toys and stocking stuffers for local children each holiday season.

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