The Wild Turkey Inn

10/18/2026

A full day on the mountain. Back to the inn for an early night. Unless someone needs one more story. 📖

The Wild Turkey Inn, Rossland, BC.
Big adventures. Cosy landings.

Book your family’s winter escape through the link in our bio.

Music: “Sidewalk Shade – slower” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Excerpted and faded.

10/17/2026

Good ski trips give you stories to bring home.

Make this winter’s a Rossland story. Ski RED, wander into town, and settle in at The Wild Turkey Inn with your favourite people.

Three bedrooms, three private ensuites, a kitchen, dining room, laundry, and a whole lot of character. All yours, just a ten-minute drive from the hill.

Gather your crew. Book your winter stay through the link in our bio.

09/28/2026

📣New outdoor venue in Rossland! The upper pavilion at the Rossland Museum looks and sounds great. There’s something about the spot that feels serene. Sue’s Blues crews approved! Nice work Skylar and everyone from Rossland Museum 👏🏼

09/26/2026

Come see Sue, Brad, Marty, and Mike! They’re playing at the museum today (Saturday) at 2:50pm. Sarah Orton is on before them.

09/20/2026

I went. I watched. I can confirm that wheels are, in fact, attached to vegetables.

The Zucchini Grand Prix mystery has been solved.

🦃 Turkey Diaries link in bio

09/20/2026

The zucchinis have been explained.

I went to the Golden City Days Zucchini Grand Prix with questions. I came home considering an entry for next year — and with a growing list of other peculiar West Kootenay things that apparently require investigation.

Turkey Diary #4.5 →

A Golden City Days Zucchini Grand Prix, quirky West Kootenay events, and a few future adventures from The Wild Turkey Inn in Rossland, BC.

09/04/2026

A Zucchini Grand Prix. Apparently. 😂

Golden City Days is next weekend, and I’ve put together the four-day Rossland weekend I’d make of it — parade, Fall Fair, family dance, live music, pancakes, airbands, motorcycles, and one unexplained vegetable race.

Turkey Diary #4 is up.

And if you feel like making a weekend of it, we still have space at The Wild Turkey Inn and KOOTENAY10 takes 10% off eligible direct stays of two nights or more.

Golden City Days • Sept 11–13 • KOOTENAY10

08/31/2026

It’s us again.

Still inhaling lath and plaster over here in Rossland.

Renovating a Gold Rush-era house is beginning to feel a little like our own low-budget version of The Money Pit — except every so often, the house gives us something back.

This time, it was shoes.

Old shoes. Very old shoes. Two pairs, hidden inside a wall, with rows of tiny nails still visible in the soles.

Then a visitor arrived whose father and grandfather had lived in this house — and suddenly we had clues.

Not answers. Clues.

And we still have questions.

👞 Turkey Diary #3: The Shoes in the Wall

Come down the rabbit hole with us. Full story at the link in bio.

08/30/2026

A new Turkey Diary is up.

In early 2025, two pairs of well-worn shoes were found concealed side by side inside a wall during renovations.

One pair was leather boots. The other was a pair of Chinese-style cloth slippers.

For more than a year, we could only guess who they belonged to. Then a visit from the granddaughter of J.S.C. Fraser, the house’s first occupant, gave us a name we had never had before: Mr. Lee Kim, the Fraser family’s cook and an important part of life at Breezy Bluffs.

We may never prove the slippers were his. But the clues are getting awfully interesting.

Turkey Diary #3: The Shoes in the Wall

Two pairs of shoes hidden in the walls of our 1896 Rossland, BC home lead to the story of Breezy Bluffs, J.S.C. Fraser and Mr. Lee Kim.

08/20/2026

We have a confession. The Turkey Diaries exist partly because of Google.

We’re not aspiring influencers. We don’t particularly want internet fame. We’re just two Gen X-ers trying to win at the internet—or at least fight it to a respectable draw.

It turns out we also have quite a few stories to tell.

🦃 Turkey Diaries #2 : Why Are We Doing This?

😉 And yes, horrifyingly, we now have to say it: link in bio.

📸 Photo: Melanie Martin.