Where did the name ROCKS come from?
” The most obvious answer to this, if you know our location, is that we are located on about 4 acres of black basalt rock. If you cruise through some of our pictures below, you will see rocks in the background of many pictures – or in the case of Channel 2, we were climbing all over them to get a good shot (…and no I have never seen a snake around here!) “The Rocks Lodge” is the name that Dick Thomas picked when he established the lodge and tavern in 1969. I think he tried to name it something like “Rocks Spigot and Beanery” since we found an old sign to that effect. But I am sure he chose Rocks because of our location. He is one of the old timers (who passed away here at the Rocks in 2007 – which is another story) who passed down the story of the two miners (written on every bottle and is written on the right of this blog). So there you have it. ROCKS water runs out of the side of the mountain and emerges from the black basalt rocks on our property. I can see the spring box out of m
