What a fabulous experience! Such a cute place, great service, really friendly and happy to see us. We ordered fresh Copper River Salmon, potatoes, brussels sprouts - mmm mmmmm! Best salmon I've had in a long time.
You've got to take a stop in the bar, too, and mingle with the locals. Well worth it!
The Cascadia Inn is similar to a pension - cozy, rooms with and without bathrooms and a bank of nice showers and bathrooms at the start of the hall.
The owner, Henry, is a retired CPA and is on site almost all the time. He is a great host.
I teach skiing at Stevens one day a week and so often will stay here so that I don't have so far to drive in the morning! I often will grab a bite to eat in the restaurant or little bar downstairs - or head to the pub next door.
The burgers and the bartender were beautiful: things my friend and I did not expect in an old railroad tavern in a remote mountain town. Â I fully recommend this place for their bacon cheeseburger and the unique small-town, railroad, nostalgic atmosphere. Â From the reviews it sounds like the Inn is worth coming back for as well on a snowy weekend in the future.
Review Source:I ordered a gardenburger, and when it arrived the patty was almost a liquid mush. I asked if it could be cooked more. A few minutes later the chef came out and stated their gardenburgers were home-made and often turned out mushy and raw like the one they had served me. Â The chef then came back with a replacement for the mushy gardenburger. It was a sandwich that consisted of two pickles, a slice of tomato, 2 slices of avocado, three mushroom slices and some lettuce. I was starving so I ate it, but it was like a tiny salad on a hamburger roll - there was no patty of any kind in it at all. Â When the server came back I pointed out the sad sandwich to her and she said nothing, just walked away. Â No discount, no apology. Â At least the fries were good. I would never recommend this place based on the quality of food and service I received.
Review Source:Some friends and I crashed here for two nights while on a boarding trip at Stevens. All in all, it's an awesome, low-budget hideaway for those wanting to play in the snow several days in a row, but not drive back and forth over the pass (or pay a ton of money for a lodge closer to Stevens).
PROS:
1. Convenient. Just 5 miles from Stevens.
2. Cheapo! Prices range from $20-80 a night, with some private rooms/private baths, and some shared bunkbed lodging and communal baths.
3. Food was surprisingly good! I didn't expect much from the diner, given the crazy snowstorm and seemingly lack of access to fresh produce. But my burger had fresh lettuce, tomatoes, onions, etc. And the fries, my friends and I all agree, were amazingly good. Super crispy, uniform, hot, tasty fries.
4. Henry is a one man show! He does it all. Nice, eager to please, and efficient.
CONS:
1. Not the cleanest. But this is what you can expect from a hostel with such decent prices. There was no handsoap in the communal bathroom. And the lounge area was grimy, dusty, and dingy.
2. Thin walls and creaky beds. Heard a couple getting it on upstairs for hours. Man.
I am a huge fan of this place. It's not fancy AT ALL, but for a town with a population of 200 this is glorious.
It doubles as diner and hotel. The diner is decent enough (nothing special), but the hotel is really quaint and fun.
For $75 a night you get your own bathroom, bed, and dish TV. The bed is creaky and our bathroom door wouldnt lock, but the blanket was a real quilt and it all felt very homey while still maintaining hotel-style privacy.
The bathroom had excellent water pressure! Maybe bring your own shampoo though, the kind they provide smells like Axe body spray.
Trains go by every 3 hours in the night, so dont sleep with your window open!
The hotel also has a do-it-yourself walking tour brochure which was lots of fun. Tells you all the history about the city, takes you by the river and the train tracks.
If you want a normal hotel this might not be for you, but this is a hospitable, clean, quaint little gem!
There are basically three businesses here and I won't be reviewing the bar.
The hotel offers rooms with private and shared baths. We got a king bed with a private bath for $85 and the prices just go down from there to $25 for a bunk bed and shared bath.
Our room was basically big enough to fit the king bed and a stand for the flat screen TV and not much else. The bathroom has all the standard arrangements with the oddity that the mirror was split into two pieces with 3-4 inches of space between them, overall a easy and cheap place to stay if you are doing stuff up by Stevens Pass.
Then there is the issue of the train. I the hotel is from my best guess 50 feet away from the rail road tracks and the trains seems to be pretty active there. If the horn blows you should cover your ears and otherwise be prepared to not hear the TV and have the room shake. Now being the noise sensitive person I am I thought this would be an issue but I didn't hear the train till 6:20 am about when I normally wake up anyways. I contribute this to a 5+ hour snowshoe hike during the day and 2 Sierra Nevada Pale Ales with dinner. My girlfriend was woken up several times throughout the night by the trains coming though.
The diner was ok as well. For dinner I had a bowl of chili and a sandwich called the The Malone which hit the spot after a long hike. Be aware though that there chili contains evil beans but is otherwise decent. For breakfast I had the half biscuits and gravy with sausage. There was a lot more gravy then I expected but I don't necessarily consider this a bad thing. Also I was impressed to see sausage patties instead of links.
All the staff we met were incredibly nice and helpful. I wish the rooms were a bit bigger and the rooms sound proofed against the train but otherwise not a bad stay.
The hotel part IS open.
I thought it was expensive for the accomodations that they provide, but I didn't check to compare with the other Skykomish hotel. We got two rooms, one on the shared-bathroom floor and one with a private bath. The shared bathroom was weird, but mostly fine. One of the other (permanent??) residents of the shared-bathroom floor peed all over one of the toilet compartments, so that was unfortunate. The shower stalls suffered from a lack a circulation and were a little mildewy.
Poor Skykomish is all torn up until 2011, at least. The locals were surprised and grateful that we were staying in town.
First off, it's not at all clear to me that the hotel part of the Cascadia Inn is currently open. Â The business is clearly in some kind of transitional period, caused in no small part by the disruption to the entire Skykomish "business district" due to Great Northern Railroad pollution remediation. Â On the other hand, they had a business card contest for a night in the inn with free breakfast...
Now, to the review. Â My wife and I like to road-trip... some of our most fun moments in the PNW have involved hopping in the car and driving until we decide to turn around. Â We first chose Skykomish as a wise place to turn around last winter, having no chains or coats in our car with waves of freezing fog that even made a polar bear nervous...
We finally returned last weekend on a much more pleasant day, and decided we needed to pee and have a snack. Â The Cascadia Inn was really the only place in Skykomish that looked like a candidate.
The interior is semi-rustic, semi-small town diner. Service is friendly, with the whole place being run by a couple of older guys. The food was surprisingly good... my grilled ham-and-cheese was delish, and the fries were wonderful. Â They also did a great job of keeping our ice teas filled.
You're not going to get world-class cuisine here, but if you want a satisfying, surprisingly non-greasy diner/small town restaurant meal, the Cascadia Inn might be just up yer alley.
The place also has displays and material about the history of the Great Northern Railroad and its influence on the town and region.
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