As Colorado welcomes back warm weather and longer days, Tesoro Cultural Center prepares to welcome its beloved Indian Market & Powwow this summer. The 18th annual celebration will take place on the grounds of The Fort Saturday, June 2, and Sunday, June 3. The event offers plenty of free parking, family-friendly activities and more. Running from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, admission is just $5 per person; children 12 and under are free. The cost of admission … Read the entire post >
If you’ve got a heart for history and a needy sweet tooth, we’ve got the perfect recipes for you. We’ve compiled a few of The Fort’s most popular – and delicious – dessert recipes, including the background on how they came to be on our menu and/or in our cookbook.
Holly’s Adobe Brick Sundae
We serve a lot of ice cream sundaes at The Fort, including one Holly Arnold Kinney, Proprietress of The Fort, created herself at just ten … Read the entire post >
In 1961, Sam’l and Bay Arnold had a dream to build an adobe home outside of Denver so their family could grow up surrounded by fresh air, horseback riding and fishing. While Bay was reading a book about Bent’s Old Fort, she was inspired to create a similar adobe castle in Morrison, Colo.
The Arnolds hired William Lumpkins, a top architect in adobe construction, as well as a contractor from New Mexico. The Fort was first authentic replica of Bent’s … Read the entire post >
Whether you’re looking for a romantic date night destination or a place to treat visiting friends and family, we invite you to take advantage of our seasonal specials, historic atmosphere and shinin’ times in Morrison, Colo. For reservations, please visit http://bit.ly/2iBNB3s or call (303) 697-4771.
16-oz. T-Bone Steak Special
Keep warm this winter and sink your teeth into our juicy beef T-bone steak now through April 30, 2018 for $39 per person (excludes tax and gratuity).
Beginners: The Fort’s dinner … Read the entire post >
For the past 112 years, people have anxiously awaited the arrival of the annual National Western Stock Show. One of Colorado’s most popular tourist attractions, the show is the nation’s premier livestock, rodeo and horse show. Held each January for 16 days, the event features one of the world’s richest professional rodeos, one of the country’s largest horse shows and Colorado’s largest western trade show. Each year, the show attracts more than 650,000 visitors (via National Western).
Established in … Read the entire post >
‘Tis the season for making memories with family, catching up with friends and enjoying festive food. This holiday season, create new traditions – or celebrate existing ones – with us at The Fort.
Christmas Eve
While our Christmas Eve dinner is sold out this year, be sure to join us from 4-5:30 p.m. for Tesoro Cultural Center’s annual Las Posadas celebration in our courtyard and throughout our grounds. The special holiday event commemorates Mary and Joseph’s journey from Nazareth to … Read the entire post >
Thanksgiving dinner doesn’t have to be predictable. This year, treat guests to a different tablescape, including one of The Fort’s favorite dishes: Baked Stuffed Pumpkin. Inspired by the American Indians, this recipe utilizes pumpkin – a squash and member of the Three Sacred Sisters – as its main ingredient. Mixing the pumpkin with an array of flavors, including buffalo or ground beef, peppers, sunflower seeds, hot sauce and more, makes for an incredibly comforting dish that guests are sure to … Read the entire post >
Holly Arnold Kinney, Proprietress of The Fort, credits her mother for igniting her passion for food and cooking at a young age. Kinney spent much of her childhood in the kitchen with her mother, testing out new recipes and flavors for the family to enjoy.
As Kinney’s career in the food industry developed, she maintained a spot in her heart for children in the kitchen. Seen as an opportunity to empower and educate those of a young age, Kinney developed … Read the entire post >
As the end of summer nears, we’re preparing for brisk fall weather and cozy days spent baking at home with some of our favorite recipes.
Fort Robinson in Dawes County, Nebraska was famous for acting as the old Calvary headquarters, but was also well-known for making apple pie without apples. The recipe, a nod to the ingenuity of frontier cooks, substitutes the traditional use of apples for saltine crackers, lemon, eggs and cinnamon. This fall, try a twist on a … Read the entire post >
During the 19th century, many trading forts in the American west found gardens to be a necessary source of fresh food. The selection of crops at each fort depended entirely on what crops were suitable for each specific climate. Crops ranged from sweet corn to watermelon and summer squash to Hidatsa beans.
In the 1960s, Bay Arnold insisted that The Fort Restaurant needed a fur trade garden, just as forts of the old west once had. She discovered the … Read the entire post >
