Celebrate Kremmling Days, past and future, on Father’s Day weekend, Friday through June 17, with music, fireworks, homemade pies, extreme Jeeping at the Mountain Metal Mashers Mud Bog and a golf tournament with hefty prizes for driving golf balls from atop the “Kremmling Cliffs” at targets at the base.
The town, setting for so many Zane Grey novels, will be making merry, enjoying a renaissance launched eight years ago when Shawn and Stephenie Scholl started serving lattes at Big Shooter’s ice cream parlor on the main drag, U.S. 40. Long a destination for hunters and rafters, Kremmling has become a magnet for energetic young artisans and cyclists who enjoy living within spitting distance of seven ski resorts, three reservoirs, two national forests and a passel of dude ranches. The town’s 1,554 residents jealously guard the legacy of their spot at the confluence of the Colorado, Blue and Muddy rivers.
They relish the fact that the Moose Cafe is “clean and friendly,” the Quarter Circle Saloon serves “Colorado cowboy cuisine,” the Middle Park Meat Co. butchers for customers across the West and you still can go down to the O’Aces for a six-pack. – Sureva Towler, special to The Denver Post
Getting there: Two hours and 115 miles northwest of Denver; take Interstate 70 west, then Colorado 9 north to its junction with U.S. 40.
