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Baldpate Inn
Categories: Hotels & Travel Bed & Breakfast Restaurants American (Traditional) Bed & Breakfast, American (Traditional) [Edit]
4900 State Hwy 7Estes Park, CO 80517
(970) 586-6151
- Hours:
Mon-Sun 11:30 am - 8 pm
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Price Range:
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$$
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- No
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Alcohol:
- Beer & Wine Only
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
12 reviews for Baldpate Inn
12 reviews in English
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Review from Susan W.
Longmont, CO
7/25/2011
This is one of my favorite places to stop for pie on the way too or from Estes Park. It was first recommended to us by a co-worker who used to work there.
It is a very old inn and rustic in some ways. There isn't a spectacular view, but we do enjoy watching the humming birds while we eat.
They have a huge collection of keys in their little gift shop area and even have a few rooms which we toured. We have always found the service here to be good, and the pie to be excellent, very light and flaky crust and superb fillings.
We haven't tried anything else besides the pie, mainly because of the price, it is pricey for a soup/salad buffet, but I think it would be worth it if you enjoy that type of thing, everything is made fresh daily and smells wonderful.
There also isn't very much parking so it can be a little difficult to find a spot on a busy weekend day, but I think it's definitely worth it to check this place out. -
Review from Todd O.
10/5/2010
I'll start with saying you better like soup and salad if you want to eat and if not you better love pie or else you're kinda screwed. I saw a bunch of their awards when I first walked in and thought this place doesn't need my review but they're getting it anyway. The view is amazing, I biked up from Estes which I wouldn't recommend to my worst enemy but its beautiful. The setting is rustic, its a bit hard to find, its at the base of a mountain (Twin Sisters, really cool hike), its got crazy history and my favorite...the owner. We had a party there and she is an amazing planner, organizer and go to person. She was just wonderful and we truly appreciate it.
Side note: call for the soups and the breads, that way if it stuff you don't like you can go on another day! -
Review from Christine A.
Austin, TX
8/20/2008
The Baldpate Inn is on the National Registry of Historic Places and is one of our favorite places to visit when we come to Estes Park. Only the second family to own the bed and breakfast since 1917, the Smith Family lovingly cares for the wonderful property and their guests.
After a long hike, we like to enjoy a late lunch in the restaurant. Two delicious soups are featured along with an extensive fresh vegetable and fruit salad bar served from an antique bathtub. There are numerous choices of fresh baked breads and muffins to munch on with your meal. The desserts, pies and cakes, are homemade with fresh berries and chocolate. We love the hummingbird feeders positioned in each window of the restaurant and on the large porch.
The Key Room will blow your mind. There are keys from Mozart's wine cellar, the Pentagon, Westminster Abbey and Frankenstein's Castle.
Reservations are a must.Listed in: Estes Park, Colorado…
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Review from Chris J.
Estes Park, CO
10/18/2011 1 Check-in Here
Great little place for lunch. Be prepared though the menu does not exist its salad and home made soup w home made bread. The key room is fun to look around in and the setting is quintessential Colorado mountain. It is not cheap but the location is so remote I'm sure its fair. Oh by the way save room for home made pie!
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Review from Dulcie F.
Longmont, CO
8/12/2008
Wow -what a great find!
Our friend took us on a brief hike just outside of Estes Park, and when we were ready to refuel, he suggested that we go to the Baldpate Inn.
This place was really cool! It looks like a place you might find in the Adirondacks--a craftsman-style 1917 lodge. It has an expansive porch where you can sit and admire a lovely view, and a number of hummingbird feeders are strung up along the dining room windows. These feeders are overrun with hummingbirds! I've never seen anything like it and was mesmerized. From inside the dining room you can stand inches from the birds and really take them in. Just fascinating.
While we waited to be seated, we wandered around their key collection which is much cooler than I had anticipated. Keys of all shapes, sizes, and ages fill the room to the brim.
The inn is a bed and breakfast, but we just stopped in for their soup and salad buffet. Everything was tasty, although not mind-blowing. Really it is more about the atmosphere and experience, but it was also just the ticket after our hike. Our friends ordered a piece of pie and they were very pleased.
If you are in the area, this place is definitely worth checking out! -
Review from Harmony O.
Boulder, CO
8/11/2008
Enjoying a family reunion in the Estes area over the weekend, I ventured out onto the Mary's Lake Road with a cousin or two to go for a hike around Lily Lake. Somewhere along the way from Lily Lake to town, my cousin pointed out the road to the Baldpate Inn to me, and said something like this: "That's just the kind of place you would like, Harmony..."
It was hard to surmise just exactly what he meant by that, as his tone of voice was rather curious.
I asked him why he thought I would like the Baldpate. He said it is a Bed and Breakfast, and he knows I adore the Bed and Breakfasts.
Simple enough, right?
So I looked up the Baldpate when I got home from the *delightful* reunion which took place elsewhere in the vast swirl of lodging, consumerism, elk, chipmunks, & mountainous forests that is Estes...
My cousin is so right. I know I would love this place. I plan to call and see if they will be open duing the time I must attend a conference in Estes in a few months, as I see they close for the winter.
I am looking forward to experiencing this place. I know we are supposed to really go to a place prior to reviewing it....it was just so alluring from the road, and so affordable and perfect on the website. The Baldpate Inn is in my future...that's all I can say. -
Review from Roberta K.
Austin, TX
7/3/2011
Not worth the view! The food was terrible. Just terrible. And @ $14.95/ person, including my 9 year old, there are so many better options in Estes. For a place that only offers soup and salad, you would think the salad bar would be tremendous. There were more dressings than items available for the salad. The bread was tasteless. One of the two soups was eatible, thank goodness, so we all had that one soup. That was pretty much dinner: a bowl of soup for $15. Never again...
Comment from Lois S. of Baldpate Inn 4/3/2012
Thanks for your comments, while hard to hear the negatives,… More » -
Review from Amy M.
6/3/2011
Food is amazing after a long hike, all fresh from scratch. We Love the Honey Wheat Bread, Cornbread is delectible,Scandinavian Apple Pie, White Chili. We stayed for our anniversary trip one year...the rooms are still VERY 80's and on the pricey side. Would not stay at the cabins again, but would hit the restaurant anytime. Visit the Key Room based on the novel Seven Keys to Baldpate. Ancient keys from Tetuan, Spanish Morocco, Castle Saint Angelo, Key from Lhasa Tibet, Japanese gate key used to unlock bamboo gate. Key to Mozart's wine cellar, Key to General George Washington's headquarters at Hessian Barracks Key from Westminster Abbey Royal Chapel the list goes on and on. A quick trip to Lilly lake across the street and trail heads to Rocky Mountain National Park just up the road.
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Review from Bob S.
Greeley, CO
8/24/2011
Come for the view and the Hummingbirds in the summer and not for the food. Overpriced with not much selection. Was much better years ago.
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Review from Jonathan W.
Frederick, CO
7/1/2008
HI all
Wanted to put in a review for the BaldPate Inn and it is up above Estes Park, Colorado. It is a Bed and Breakfast that is celebrating its 92nd year this year and it is by far one of my favorite places to go for lunch or dinner when we are up in Estes. The restaurant itself is showing its years a bit but that really is part of its charm and the view from the dining room is just amazing looking down from its perch above the Estes Valley.
The menu is just soup and salads with some great deserts to finish it up. They normally have 2 soups to choose from and these are both very hearty and made on the premises some of the choices we have seen are white chili, chili, vegetable, vegetable beef and chicken and each and everyone of them are so very good and filing with large chunks of meat and vegetables it just puts a smile on your face and a sigh to the belly! To go along with the soup they have a great salad bar filled with tons of fresh ingredients and normally 2 specialty salads also made fresh there we have seen many varieties here from apple walnut to a pasta salad. The final bit they have is fresh made bread and muffins and these are always my doom with the taste and the freshness just making me eat that extra bite then one more. They also have some very good tasting deserts but even more than your standard restaurant I seldom have the room to try it out!
The Bald pate is normally open from May- October and while reservations are not required they are strongly suggested. If you are heading up there for more than just a day trip the Bald Pate also offers cabins and rooms to rent which all seem very cozy but the real reason to stay here is the view and it's out of the way location. I am not going to rate this place on our standard scale as it is more casual but we try to make it up there 2 or 3 times a year and in a world with so many options that is a large compliment in itself! The Bald Pates website is http://www.baldpateinn... and it is located at 4900 South Hwy. 7 Estes Park, CO 80517 with a phone number of 970-586-6151. -
Review from Larry S.
Austin, TX
9/1/2010
They only had soup and salad for entre. They have desert also. We were expecting a full menu. The view is spectacular. The food was average at best.
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Review from Kathy C.
Huntley, IL
6/1/2010
After hicking and picnicking at Lilly Lake we visited Baldpate for desert and coffee. We dinned on homemade, delicious peach, chocolate, and key lime pie. The view while we ate was fabulous and was made even more enjoyable by the abundat humming birds feeding outside the dinnind area. After our pie we enjoyed talking with the staff and listening to them share some of the history of this century old establishment. We look forward to revisiting the Baldpate in the futrue.
