Tombstone at the Ore House Inn

We run our businesses as family, My name is John, wife Cori, son's Johnny and Treigh. Cori takes care of the vital side of things working at Valley View Hospital to maintain health insurance benefits for me and the boys. We love four wheeling (Cori perhaps has the nicest jeep ever and Johnny's not far behind!) We love to take our RZR and four wheelers to Moab, UT in the winter when we are not snowmobiling. Our kids grew up at Lake Powell boating and having a good time with family and friends. We have super fast internet in Tombstone because both kids are serious video gamers. Cori and I love gold mining and dredging and recently had one of our best clean ups ever on Elk Creek which runs through New Castle. Other than that we have been in the restaurant business our whole lives and want to take our hospitality to the next level on the top side of our building. Work Hard, Play Harder!!!!

I personally have had a love for old mining towns, gold mining, and historical buildings since first visiting Blackhawk and Central City Colorado in 1979 when they were still just ghost towns. In 1999 New Castle was the fastest growing town in Colorado so we decided to stake our claim and expand our restaurant business from Nearby Glenwood Springs. We opened Elk Creek Mining Company in September of that year with 5 apartments upstairs. in 2008 we decided to close our business in Glenwood and focus solely on Elk Creek Mining Co. The pictures in our hallways of The Ore House Inn Depict Downtown New Castle's history and show our building as a gas station downstairs with a boarding house upstairs. Our restaurant has won The Local's Choice award for best restaurant every year since 1999 winning gold every year but two and winning silver in those cases: Notable considering we have never asked anyone to vote for us in this age of social media! After renting apartments upstairs for nearly 20 years and growing tired of having tenants rough house our building we decided to go back to the building's roots and become a boarding house again. My wife, my two son's and I have put our heart and souls into this effort and hope you are impressed with what we have accomplished. Cori and I believe New Castle is the best town on earth to raise a family and New Castle was recently named the 5th safest town in Colorado and the ONLY ONE on the western slope! When I first moved here in 1996 A lot of folks in Glenwood Springs scoffed at the idea "Why would you move to New Castle?" Those very same folks live here now!

130 year old building that used to be a boarding house in a town full of saloons and brothels! At one point New Castle was actually seriously going to be considered to be the state capital. Teddy Roosevelt hunted here when he stayed at the Hotel Colorado and brought tons of friends and nearly wiped out our entire bear population. (we have pictures of him across the river from our building). Gateway to perhaps the best snowmobiling the world has to offer. SOOO many offroad and four wheelng trails close by and many others within an arms reach. Unique Downtown revival, we have lots of great restaurants and even a new bakery opening up! Check some of them out: Elk Creek Mining Company, Hogback Pizza, Eat! Bistro, and Black Dog Saloon just to name a few of our favorites: also your typical fast food and other restaurants.