Welcome to the ‘Fireside’ where friendship flows like the spirits served.

After you have spent that perfect winter ‘play day’ - relax and enjoy great food, drink and conversation in the Fireside Café & Lounge. There is always a snap, crackle and popping hot fire blazing in the natural rock fireplace and you are always welcome, the year `round.

Please view the Fireside Café and Lounge Menu Highlights, photographs and information, all available for you as follows:

Whistlin' Jack Fireside Café and Lounge features...

• Distinguished Washington Wines, Cocktails, Premium beers and ales.
• Great appetizers and delicious breakfast, lunch and dinner offered daily
• Thursday, Friday & Saturday night: Don Forgey entertains
• Pull tabs and Scratch tickets available
• Table games always available (chess, backgammon, cribbage, etc.)

Gift Certificates from Whistlin' Jack Lodge ... the perfect gift for all occasions!

Fireside Café & Lounge Menu

Great conversation, food and drink can be found by the old natural rock fireplace every day of the year.

Enjoy the Wide Screen TV

Selected sporting events are televised on four televisions plus the Fireside’s 52-inch large screen TV. NASCAR racing, Pac 10 sports (WSU & UW), NFL, MLB, NBA, boxing, fishing and hunting events, as well as miscellaneous sporting venues are aired daily.

A Tribute to Don Forgey

by Doug Williams

Not enough can be said for ‘A Friend’ but I’ll sure try.

Don has entertained guests and patrons of the Fireside Café and Lounge at Whistlin’ Jack Lodge since 1976. He is a very accomplished musician, entertainer and song writer. His popularity reaches far and wide, to mean, nationally and internationally. That should not come as a surprise since his personality is of genuine kindness and appreciation for all those who surround him.

In the early days of his youth, Don grew up loving music and the mountains. Then, as a young adult and high school student, he formed and lead musical groups (most famous was Bazooka Joe). Ultimately, he would become an accomplished song writer and recording artist, taking him to California and…Nashville. Don’s unique and particular God given talent launched him to heights few can relate to.

In 1976, after entertaining with Bazooka Joe throughout the Northwest, British Columbia and Alberta, Canada, Don came home. Being energetic he wrote a lot of musical lyrics and every song he composed was GOOD.

With ‘song book’ and his years of experience in hand, Don and I met to consider whether Whistlin’ Jack Lodge would support music, let alone Don Forgey’s music. That conversation re-established our friendship and as well, a wonderful working relationship that remains complete today.

Thank you Don Forgey!

A Bit of Heaven – Right Here on Earth!

by Doug Williams

The present day Fireside Lounge is located in what was the dining room (and fireplace) of the original lodge and made up the entire building. During the summer, the Lodge offered a cozy dining room for families driving from the Yakima Valley (and many other parts of the region). The Lodge also served as a stopover for campers, vacationers, tourists, guests of the lodge and the surrounding summer home owners.

Outdoorsmen (cougar hunters, snowshoers and wintertime campers) would stop at the Lodge for a cup of java and conversation or to ask for help. Logging and road building was an entire industry, so men working in the woods or associated with those industries would stop in as well. Their conversations with my dad were always a novelty and I enjoyed listening in very much.

All in all, my home, Whistlin’ Jack Lodge, was…A Bit of Heaven – Right Here on Earth!

in Cliffdell, Washington on Chinook Pass (Hwy 410)
20800 State Route 410
Naches, Washington 98937-9170
Tel. (509) 658-2433
Fax (509) 658-2436
Toll free (800) 827-2299
Email info@whistlinjacks.com