I'm here so often the dudes working the door recognize me. They have great weekday beer and food specials (2 for 1 burgers Tuesday / $1 taco Thursday are the best!) You can get micros for right around $2 weeknights. And PBR is always  a buck fifty! With pool tables and foosball in back, ample seating throughout, and a whole bunch of random stuff plastered onto the walls for ambiance, there's a little something for everybody!  Dive Bar A++.
Review Source:I went to college at Front Range Community College and Colorado State University for years but at the time I enjoyed being by myself. On the other hand I also feel that Fort Collins can be a socially isolating place where people socialize in small little groups and it is difficult to get into them. At any rate when one has the honor to have some hard earned college buddys what else can you do on the weekend but go out and drink in a town like this, right?
The Trailhead is just such a place. Where college friends go out to drink. The atmosphere is your typical college hangout and has been a long time establishment in Oldtown for years. It falls short a little on character but that is what you are supposed to bring to such a place and watch the never ending cycling of different sports on the large television sets.
They also serve food here and it is reasonably priced. Last night was my first night here and the set up here confused me. There are no wait staff here and if you want a beer, you go to the bar and order one. You want food? You go up to the bar and order it. The food then comes prepared in a window just down from the bar. On a busy night like last night it took fifteen minutes for the food to arrive, maybe longer. I went back three times from the table my friends and I were seated at just to make sure my tacos were not sitting there, getting cold.
The tacos themselves were ok. Nothing authentic or new to offer. They are good to eat as a snack and fresh enough and quite a few notches up from fast food tacos.
The beer is fairly priced as well. Most of the beers they had on tap last night were beers from New Belgium. I got the NB Snow which was a dark beer. It was ok but not my favorite they put out.
Trailhead is perfect for college students and the dive bar scene. My expiration date as a college student has long since passed and I only occasionally like dive bars. Preferably my favorite kind of dives are the kinds of bars you go into and it looks like you walked in to the Mos Eisley Cantina where you can people watch all night at all of the odd characters and maybe be one yourself. Not so much the case here. You got to go to the big cities for that. So in addition to that and my other points, Trailhead gets an "A-OK" rating.
The Trailhead Tavern is a dive-bar-gem, nestled on a side street just west of College in old town Fort Collins. The mix of local drinkers and sports fans, all looking for a no-nonsense good time, makes Trailhead a great place to catch a game or just relax and grab a couple of drinks.
Atmosphere:  The dimly lit ambiance doesn't do justice to one of the largest and most popular dive bars in Fort Collins.  When walking through the front door, we were assaulted by a collection of beer, art-work and outdoorsy memorabilia strewn from the ceiling and covering the walls.  They have a great projection TV set-up, combined with Flat screens all in good viewing angles, so we could  catch any big game.
Service: Â We experienced good old fashioned bar service with a random cocktail waitress here and there.
Drinks: Â With a fully stocked bar and 14 beers on tap, Trailhead had us covered. If you prefer a girly drink with fruit and swords, you may be in the wrong place. The chalkboards and signs around the bar area should answer all your questions on pricing as well as present daily drink specials.
Food: Â Trailhead offers mostly average bar fair, but at a great price. When we're eating out and on a budget, we usually give the daily special a go. When the special doesn't fit our mood, we order the Mountain Fries which are a heaping platter of beer-battered fries smothered in cheese. Seriously? How can you go wrong with that?
I had their Philly chicken sandwich and I am not sure if it was because I had already drank a few of their fantastic choices of beers but it was AWESOME. I love going to trailhead to watch the games. I always meet friendly people there and am looking forward to going back. The best part about it was that I hung out there all day watching football and really spent very little for how much I drank.
Review Source:Trailhead always has an awesome crowd. The big tvs in the front are perfect for games, and the biggest crowds. The biggest perk is how cheap the beer is-- by far the best deals in town. If you're a broke college kid and you like dive bar atmosphere, Trailhead is the best. Also, they have 2 for 1 burgers on Thursdays. Delish.
Review Source:Every single person I talk to about eating at the Trailhead mentions their bacon cheese burgers. It would be a crime to review a different menu item.
The Bacon Cheddar Trailbuger is comprised of (as quoted by the Trailhead on their website) "one third pound lean, tavern seasoned patty, topped with bacon and cheddar cheese served on an onion-Kaiser bun with lettuce, tomato, onion, mayo, and mustard. This mouthful comes with beer battered Idaho fries from France and a pickle."
Idaho fries from France. That's awesome.
Really, this burger is as basic and bare-bones as it gets. It's an average bar burger. I've had better and I've had worse. But, you certainly can't beat the price. It's decent enough, and tastes even better when you wash it down with a beer. During our lunch, I had my first New Belgium Mighty Arrow of the season. Mighty Arrow and a bacon cheddar Trailburger for just a handful of cash? Sounds like a classic Fort Collins lunch to me.
You can't expect French Fries in a place that serves beer-battered Idahoans, just like you can't expect a nice selection of wine in a place that is known for serving cheap PBR. But what you can expect is something consistent in a Fort Collins locals' favorite watering hole.
Not sure how we ended up here, but I picked this bar for the moose on the sign.
Cheap beer, great Tuesday night crowd, and too large to be the dive bar that it is.
Old West themed and kinda rundown, but I can't see it from my house.
And yes, that is a freight train running down the middle of the street about a hundred yards away...
This is a medium-sized bar for fort collins. Locals hang out here and they have great beer deals. On Tuesday-1.50 PBR. They have an okay-outdoor drinking area and 3 pool tables.
We came here late night for their buy one get one free burger deal. oh my goodness. Bacon cheddar burger. Let's be honest, I had to be a little bit tipsy to choose that platter of health. It was delicous. Their FRIES are some of the best I ever had. More like a steak fry, beer battered and brown and crispy. I had to eat every. last. bite.
You might wake up the next morning and feel a little guilty. Run to the mountains, through CSU campus, to make-up for the night before.
Yay for the Trailhead! Â Despite the come-ons of the chef (you should taste my breakfast wink-wink), the food here is pretty good and cheap! Â One of my friends says that the wings are the best in town, but I prefer the chicken fingers.
Geeks who drink is really fun, but sit close to a speaker if you are super-serious about kickin' some geeky a**, 'cause it's hard to hear with the crowds.
Drinks are super reasonable, and when I recently tried to tell the bar-man that he forgot to put something on my tab...he said forget about it and sign the damn thing! Â Right on T-Head!
I've been frequenting the Trailhead on Wednesday nights for the "Geeks Who Drink" trivia night. Â Fun times!
It was become a fun little ritual to go get a burger and wings and a couple beers on a Wednesday night. Â (Bacon Cheddar Burger = good, hot wings = good, $1.50 PBR = great, $2.00 local brews = awesome!)
The bar and kitchen staff seem nice, and there are pool and video games in the back.
I only have 2 complaints...1) the 2 urinals in the bathroom are WAY too close together...you're practically rubbing elbows if someone else has to go at the same time you are...but it makes for some funny, awkward conversations I suppose. Â 2) If you sit in the booths on the west side of the bar when the heater comes on, it feels like you're being dry-roasted.
Aside from that, I'd give the Trailhead 2 thumbs-up as a place to hang out, grab dinner or a few drinks.
I've only been there once and probably wouldn't go back. Â We sat there for 10 minutes without being acknowledged by the staff before we got up and left. Â Now we weren't sitting there on a busy day. Â It was 4pm on a Saturday. Â There were about 10 other people in the bar, not every seat taken by any means.
Review Source:The Trailhead Tavern is quickly becoming one of my favorite bars in town. Â The crowd is a less "collegey" than most of the other places around Old Town and the interior is also super laid back and true to its tavern name. Â Yes, it may be a little dirty or grungy, but I prefer that to uptight and pretentious. Â They have a ton of local brews on tap and they are pretty well priced. Â Make sure to check out the drink specials because they are definitely worth it! Â I'm also becoming quickly addicted to the Bacon and Cheddar Trailhead burger and fries. Â The burgers are large, the bacon is crispy, and they sure don't skimp on the fries, and all of this only for $6.50! Â If you want just a snack, the cheese fries are delicious and the perfect food to compliment some beers.
Hot Tip: Wednesday nights they have Geeks Who Drink Trivia, though I probably shouldn't be telling you this because it already packed those nights. Â They also have $2 New Belgium on Wednesdays which is super awesome! Â With those prices, I've been able to get a burger and 2 beers for just $10!
Came here to get proper drinks after making a failed attempt across the street at Rio Grande.
The dark exterior doesn't do much to indicate the interior that's laden with wood and very typical tavern.
On top of that being a college town, whatever your stereotypical idea of a college tavern / bar is? This place personifies it.
Grab whatever seat you can get and mosey on up to the bar to grab your drinks as there are no staff that walk around to take your orders. Only to clean up the empties.
Speaking of which the idiot that was doing it at our table nearly spilled a nasty mix of liquids on a couple of us due to his incompetent comprehension. You see if a glass has liquid in it and you stick another glass into it, that forces the liquid out of the first glass.
There's plenty of screens around to watch whatever sports might be on as well.
The T-Head: cheap, rowdy, awesome greasy bar food, hot ladies, and dirty hippies. Â Sometimes the crowd at the Trailhead can be a bit on the greasy side, it makes for a fun time and a place where you can get totally shitfaced for just a little $$. Â
Some of the best bar food in Old Town. Â The bacon cheeseburger and waffle fries are second to none, as are the buffalo wings.
Trailhead is sweet when it comes to good bars in FoCo. When you don't wanna deal with the Frat/Sorority crowd at the Rio along with their coma-inducing Margarita brew-hahas. Trailhead looks just like it sounds, it's an older rustic wooden bar with muchos TVs for sports, a huge drink menu, a happy hour that goes on for hours and an eclectic mix of college crowd, post-college crowd, and strangers and weirdos that usually flock to college campuses and college towns across America.
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