Featuring a beautiful garden courtyard, this Independence hotel stands on the same block as the Harry S. Truman Home. Free Wi-Fi is available and a continental breakfast is served daily. Rooms at the Higher Ground Hotel are furnished with classic dark wood furniture and equipped with a flat-screen satellite TV. An in-room refrigerator can be requested. Guests of Higher Ground are welcome to a selection of board games in the game room or books and movies in the library lounge. Private massage sessions are also offered in-room or inside the lounge. The Hotel Higher Ground is less than 1 miles each from the Truman Library and the Independence Amtrak Station. Access to I-435 is less than 4 miles away.