The Grubstake Adventure

Friday night we adventured down to Hamilton to go out to dinner at this restaurant. The Grubstake is a very unique restaurant and is somewhere anyone who travels to Montana should experience. Nestled at 5500 feet on Downing Mountain it is an experience! See below to get the full picture!





It took 1 hour 15minutes to drive there(some time due to construction). This is what the road looked like the last 3 miles.









Yay......5500 feet. We made it!




Welcome to the Grubstake!







Meet "Billy Jack". He is the friendly donkey that helps reduce some of the garbage the owners have to haul down the mountain. He is also the entertainment for the kiddo's before being seated.




Family picture at the Grubstake.






This is the view at The Grubstake.(this is what should be behind the family picture but the sun was causing picture problems) :)






Some silly girls on the deck at The Grubstake.

The kids(minus Cooper). Kalei says "Mom, this is beautiful!"

The restaurant.

The kids on the swinging chair.

Only that much further to the top of Downing Mountain!

The kid's dinner was served on frisbee's that they got to keep. Pretty cool for the kiddos!

Jackson and "Billy Jack" had a special bond!

Billy Jack says "Drive safe and come back soon!"




When we started the adventure I knew this place was up the mountain.....but as we were driving and it was switchback after switchback I was beginning to wonder what the heck we had gotten our selves into. I was really hoping maybe we would see a bear or a moose or something, but the only wildlife we saw was good ol' Billy Jack. Our food was great and it was just a fun evening. And as we were leaving, the owner, who was also our waiter(he was quite the chatty Kathy), complimented all of us on how well our children behaved and told us he thought we were doing a great job. What a nice thing to hear!

So...if anyone makes a trip to Montana make sure you make a stop for dinner at The Grubstake!