cabin-themed bar with creek patio · $$
Forest Room 5
Fire pits, a fake creek and tree stumps, ten minutes from Union Station
A bar built to look like a Rocky Mountain campsite, indoors and out: log walls, fire pits, a running stream through the patio, a projection screen for films. It has been on this block of 15th for close to twenty years and it still draws a mixed crowd of neighborhood regulars and people who wandered up from Confluence Park. Worth knowing that the business let its own domain lapse, so the phone number and the door are the reliable ways to check hours before you go.
Why go. Nowhere else within walking distance of downtown lets you drink around a fire pit under real trees.
The patio is the whole point, so skip it on a cold night; dogs are welcome out there.
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