Escalante Cliff House

03/20/2026

The North Creek Grill is open and it's better than ever! It was closed last year which was a real bummer, so we appreciate it now more than ever! And it's being run by a power restaurant couple from SLC area, we're pumped!!

02/02/2026

San Juan Backcountry Lodge is now available to book on Vrbo and through the website!

First, I’ll give an update on the actual build, then advertising. The sheetrock is done, walls are painted, the deck and siding are over half done and we’re just about done with the flooring. After the flooring, we’ll move onto tile in the showers, cabinets, finish plumbing and electrical, etc… We’ve done all of this since Dec. 1st with really just 2 guys, as of a week ago we have 4 guys working full time on site, so instead of slowing down with 4 months left, we’re speeding up....

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01/29/2026

Escalante Cliff House wedding venue! Message me for more details

11/26/2025

It's been a while since the last update, but we are on schedule and dried in!

This whole summer/fall, the big push has been to get the property dried in before the snow fell, because if we didn’t, we’d be trying to put a roof and solar panels on a steep roof that’s frozen. I…

08/21/2025

2nd floor is up!

08/10/2025

Well, Bank Hell is over, however we didn’t get all the money that we need for the build from the bank, so we’ve got to come up with about half of the build budget ourselves. We can do it, it’s just very nerve racking as by the end of this build, our personal and business cash reserves will be really low, like, lower than they’ve ever been....

Well, Bank Hell is over, however we didn’t get all the money that we need for the build from the bank, so we’ve got to come up with about half of the build budget ourselves. We can do it, it’s just…

07/25/2025

We're crushing rock that we excavated and putting it in the foundation as fill. Next, we'll put the plumbing in and pour the floor on top of it. We're charging!

07/04/2025

Happy 4th of July!! Jets flew up the Animas River Valley as Adam and I were eating lunch while working on the San Juan Backcountry Lodge! Follow our progress!!

06/22/2025

Pat has arrived now, and work speed doubles on the ! Pat is an indestructible 198? Nissan Pathfinder, that should have died many years ago and has now been overloaded with a diesel fuel tank! This will keep us from having to drive the big machines up and down the mountain road to fuel them up in Silverton. Excavation is almost done!

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05/12/2025

Part 4 of the saga of getting the San Juan Backcountry Lodge Built, Bank HELL!!

While we were working on getting approval from the County to build, we had started talking to banks about giving us a construction loan. On previous projects in Utah, banks had loaned us 80% loan t…