History of the Lodge

Our Colorado country inn features a small herd of dairy goats. Guests are always pleasantly surprised when interacting with our pet goats: they find out just how friendly and amusing the goats are! We originally wanted to have goats back in Washington to clear our land of brush. In 2006, Gina picked up three orphaned goats that had just lost their mama. At just three weeks old, these kids quickly stole her heart. More goats followed, and soon she had opened Naughty Goat Animal Rescue, a sanctuary for unwanted goats. Gina would pick them up in various places, in various states of health and rehabilitate them to the point where they would be adopted out as barnyard pets.

Our dairy goats provide milk to support our in-house cheese making. You may enjoy varieties of goat cheese at breakfast during your stay! The milk is also used for our Cheese Making Classes, where students learn how to make cheese.

From raising goats, Gina quickly learned that goats are very emotional creatures! They live in packs, or herds, and will cry endlessly if separated from their herd. Also, goats are extremely affectionate with their humans, especially if you raise the goats from infancy and bottle feed them, they will consider you their mom/dad and follow you around. There is a definite pecking order to the herd: the matriarch will let the youngsters or new goats know their place. The horned goats usually have an advantage over the non-horned goats when it comes to feeding time, and we have had to wrestle with this situation at Mountain Goat Lodge, as we have both horned and non-horned goats.

Our dairy goats have added to the agritourism draw of Mountain Goat Lodge, and our guests enjoy learning about, and interacting with, our goats!