Marblemount – Dining Mecca

The nearest town to our campground was the tiny hamlet of Marblemount. We were referred there for showers by a ranger at our campground, Colonial Creek (we asked, there weren’t complaints or anything) and we decided to grab some grub as well. We eneded up eating breakfast and dinner there at two different places. Surprisingly, both had great food and atmosphere. The great grandmother of the folks who own The Eatery pretty much started the town with a roadhouse to serve the miners in the late 1800s. In the 1890s she caught Nome Fever and off to Alaska she went to open a roadhouse there for two years. She kept a diary while up north and when she returned to Marblemount she wrote it up. They had copies of it lying about. Pretty interesting.

At dinner, we had an awesome view of too many hummingbirds to count. The Diner had feeders set up at each window and the show was amazing. The food was pretty darn good, the chef came out to see how it was, urge us to stay as long as we wanted, and suggest places to visit in the area.