I’m taking off on a 4,000 mile cross country next month. We will be spending at least a couple nights at Johnson Creek. Last time I was there (2 years ago) the general store and restaurant in Yellow Pine were not open for business. Does anyone know the current status?

Matt has a great restaurant called the Corner. Take the courtesy car from the strip. No store anymore. It's for sale, help us out and buy it.

JC campers needing groceries make the short flight to McCall. There is a really nice supermarket an easy walk from the airport. Also, there is a freezer at JC with frozen water bottles to exchange for your cooler use. Great place!

Hey Rob. 10 of us just got back from the Alvord, Garden Valley and Johnson Creek. Store still closed as is the restaurant next door. We sat on the front porch after dinner and drinks at the Corner bar. Price lowered to $229000.00 Have fun.

Ran into Pops at Caldwell.







Cheers...Rob

Thanks guys... I’ll make sure I bring in enough beer on the first trip I guess!

robw56 wrote:Thanks guys... I’ll make sure I bring in enough beer on the first trip I guess!

When is your trip planned. Will be in that neck of woods the week after the fourth of July

We’ll probably into JC on the 6th or 7th.

I just ate the tri-tip sandwich at the Corner today. It was delicious. They also have a cooler full of different six packs of beer and other beverages. Micro brews, not coors etc.

CW

Typing from my tent at JC.

...but for the likes of me they do have Banquet beer and PBR as well.

clippwagon wrote:I just ate the tri-tip sandwich at the Corner today. It was delicious. They also have a cooler full of different six packs of beer and other beverages. Micro brews, not coors etc.

CW

Typing from my tent at JC.

My wife and I grabbed that tri-tip sandwich during a Chicago to LA cross country trip, a month long adventure poking around at small town airports at restaurants, and we agreed that of every airport restaurant we tried on the trip, the Corner won. Amazing what they're pulling off back there, great eats!

clippwagon wrote:I just ate the tri-tip sandwich at the Corner today. It was delicious. They also have a cooler full of different six packs of beer and other beverages. Micro brews, not coors etc.

CW

Typing from my tent at JC.

Bring Steve next time and give me a shout!

IncipientSpin wrote:

clippwagon wrote:I just ate the tri-tip sandwich at the Corner today. It was delicious. They also have a cooler full of different six packs of beer and other beverages. Micro brews, not coors etc.

CW

Typing from my tent at JC.

Bring Steve next time and give me a shout!

I tried to bring him on this trip but he hung his head in disappointment because he could get away. I keep bugging him!

CW

Last time I was at the Yellow Pine Corner Cafe there was a guy who had a huge cock and balls drawn on his face with a magic marker bemoaning that he'd lost a bag of weed out of his truck the day before. He'd burned up a months worth of gas looking for it along side every road he thought he might have driven down. I asked which truck was his, then asked if I could look inside. Took me about twenty seconds to find his bag of weed, but a career in patrol helps with that.

He was stoked to get his weed back, so I asked him about the cock and balls on his face, to which I got the eyebrows-up look which is universal for "what you talking about?". Seems his buddies drew it on him the night before when he was passed out and he hadn't seen it yet.

The time I visited Yellow Pine before that I watched a pack of drunken reprobates tar and feather a car. Not sure why and wasn't about to ask.

Great town if you like hard drinking and don't hold a grudge .

A trip to Johnson Creek is not complete without ameal at the Corner Store

A trip to Johnson Creek is not complete without a meal at the Corner Store

Hammer wrote:Last time I was at the Yellow Pine Corner Cafe there was a guy who had a huge cock and balls drawn on his face with a magic marker bemoaning that he'd lost a bag of weed out of his truck the day before. He'd burned up a months worth of gas looking for it along side every road he thought he might have driven down. I asked which truck was his, then asked if I could look inside. Took me about twenty seconds to find his bag of weed, but a career in patrol helps with that.

He was stoked to get his weed back, so I asked him about the cock and balls on his face, to which I got the eyebrows-up look which is universal for "what you talking about?". Seems his buddies drew it on him the night before when he was passed out and he hadn't seen it yet.

The time I visited Yellow Pine before that I watched a pack of drunken reprobates tar and feather a car. Not sure why and wasn't about to ask.

Great town if you like hard drinking and don't hold a grudge .

Must be the transients whooping it up in town and not the locals.

The lady working at the store said that the four biggest issues (talk of the town if you would) for the 28 year round residents, most of whom are “elderly”, are 1. Finding someone to train as the town paramedic, 2. Finding a place to install a helicopter landing pad (and who’s going to pay for it), 3. Water, 4. And, finally, wolves.

CW

clippwagon wrote:Must be the transients whooping it up in town and not the locals.
CW

Could be...lot more people there in the summer than in the winter. The tar-n'-feather show was thirty years ago, and it seemed to me to be a much rowdier town at the time, but who knows. You see a mob poring molten road tar on a car and cutting feather pillows open and it makes a powerful impression on you about the neighborhood. But near as I could tell, it wasn't notably unusual behavior for a Tuesday morning in Yellow Pine.