Hidden bars & speakeasies in Grand Junction

Looking for hidden bars & speakeasies in Grand Junction? These 14 are the genuinely strange ones — Manhattan Project, Museum of the Mountain West, Phelanies and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Grand Junction they'd never find on their own.

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Manhattan Project Handlebar Tap House looks like a post-ride beer stop — 24 taps, bikes everywhere. But follow the yellow trefo… Grand Junction
Museum of the Mountain West Retired BLM archaeologist Richard Fike spent decades filling thirty-plus storage lockers, then built a fake t… Montrose
Phelanies Phil and Melanie Freismuth ran Horsefly Brewing for a decade before opening this place across the street in 2… Montrose
Pioneer Town Museum Twenty-four buildings of resurrected frontier town — the 1907 jail, the Lizard Head Saloon, a working blacksm… Cedaredge
Shavano Valley Rock Art Site Five and a half miles west of Montrose, a sandstone cliff on the Uncompahgre Plateau carries twenty-six panel… Montrose
Ashcroft Ghost Town Eleven miles up Castle Creek Road from Aspen, Ashcroft once outpaced its neighbor. Silver was struck in 1880,… Aspen
Forest Queen Hotel The Forest Queen Hotel occupies a narrow, two-story Victorian wood-frame building at the center of Elk Avenue… Crested Butte
Gothic Townsite & Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Gothic boomed in 1879 after the Jennings brothers struck wire silver at the Sylvanite lode, swelling to nearl… Gothic, CO
Independence Ghost Town Prospectors struck gold here on July 4, 1879, and within three years more than forty businesses — three saloo… Aspen
Kochevar's Saloon & Gaming Hall Jacob Kochevar finished building this timber-frame saloon in 1891 — the hand-hewn beams came from the surroun… Crested Butte
Montanya Distillers Rum and mountains don't usually share a sentence, but Montanya has been proving that wrong since it landed in… Crested Butte
Packer Saloon & Cannibal Grill In 1874, Alferd Packer led five prospectors into the San Juan Mountains during a brutal Colorado winter and e… Lake City
Tincup Cemetery Perched at 10,158 feet in Taylor Park, Tincup's 1879 cemetery occupies four separate treeless knolls, each as… Tincup
Woody Creek Tavern A 1940s log-cabin former general store and filling station six miles down-valley from Aspen, the Woody Creek… Woody Creek (Aspen area)