Steep Lakeside Tiki Bar

Drinks above the drowned town.

Lake Dillon · 9,017 ft

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9,017 ft

Highest lakeside tiki bar in North America. We checked.

On the marina

Tie up your paddleboard. The dock is right out the back.

Steep on tap

Beer brewed in Keystone. Coffee roasted in Breck. Both pouring here.

Bring the pup

Well-behaved, leashed dogs are welcome. Water bowl by the bar.

Bar program

Beach drinks,
alpine address.

Mai tais and frozen pina coladas on a deck at 9,000 feet. The contradiction is the point.

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The drowned town of Old Dillon resting on the lakebed — weathered Main Street storefronts under deep blue water, light filtering down from the surface.

The story underneath

250 feet beneath the lake
sits a ghost town.

Old Dillon — more than 800 residents, the largest town in Summit County — sat where Denver Water needed a reservoir. In 1956, the town received notice: residents had until 1961 to be gone. Some jacked their houses up and rolled them to a new townsite up the hill. What was left behind was burned, the dam closed, and the basin filled.

Today, the original Main Street rests 250 feet underwater. The yacht club races sailboats over what used to be the schoolhouse. We pour drinks on the new shoreline, 9,017 feet above it.

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The Steep family

Steep Brewing & Coffee Co.

The beer rotating on our taps is brewed in Keystone on a 7-barrel system — the original STEEP, where it all started in 2020. Brewery, coffee bar, and kitchen under one roof.

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