Lifting Home on Corner of Mackay Main Street and Spruce to Add A Basement - Circa 1910

Dentist O.B, Wade had the big house on the corner of Mackay Main Street and Spruce raised up and a basement added with its own outside entrance building circa 1910. The house was used as the US Forest Service Office after that.

This house became the Hazel Lundberg home in 1937 where she and daughter, Marjorie Christine Lundberg ran a boarding house with 2 apartments in the basement.The little building nestled between the main house and the side of the two-story Custer Hotel is a separate entrance to the lower portion of the home. Hazel Lundberg House at 316 Main Street with Uresti House (now the Bear Bottom Inn in 2013) and Custer Hotel in 1965 (below)

Custer Hotel and American Theatre were razed after the 1983 Mt. Borah Earthquake. Monica and Shawn built the Rocking Horse Dance Studio and garages at the location after 1991.

Shawn and Monica Nelson Home, now being rented.

Bear Bottom Inn Motel Rooms Open For the Season April 2013

 The Bear Bottom Inn is offering a Beer and Wine Bar when this sign is out front.

Need an event catered? Check out the Bucking Bear Catering Company at the Bear Bottom Inn. Will cater at your location or at the Bear Bottom Inn.

Mostly Cloudy All Day in Mackay Idaho - February 16 2013

Mackay  Library and Women's Club, Lost Rivers Museum (former Community Church), and Bear Bottom Inn (former Uresti House) February 16 2013.

Mackay Idaho Choked with Halstead Fire Smoke North of Stanley - September 12 2012 10 AM

Mackay Idaho choked with forest fire smoke from the Halstead fire and others north of Stanley. You can barely see Mt. McCaleb from Main Street with the American Legion, Bear Bottom Inn, and Nelson Home September 5 2012 at 10 AM.

Below is the real-time air quality monitor in Challis, Idaho at 6 AM this morning.

Bear Bottom Inn Opens Beer Bar June 2 2011

Spruce Street from Main Street May 5 2011

Spruce Street from Main Street with Bear Bottom Inn on the right and the corner of the Mackay Library May 5 2011

Extreme Wind in Mackay, Idaho - Note the flag on the American Legion Hall beyond the Eagle carved by Allen Herres for the Bear Bottom Inn in 1996

A touch of wind in Mackay today. March 9 2010

Flag over Mackay's American Legion Hall on Main Street.

Bear Bottom Inn Bar Stools 1996

The Bear Bottom Inn was the clever idea of Barbara Chaffin and her daughter, Margie VanOrden. Bar stools carved by Allen Herres.

Bear Bottom Inn Cottonwood Stump Carvings on Spruce

Crafted by Allen Herres

Bear Bottom Inn Cottonwood Stump Carvings on Spruce

Crafted by Allen Herres

Bear Bottom Inn Cottonwood Stump Carvings on Spruce

Crafted by Allen Herres

Bear Bottom Inn Cottonwood Stump Carvings on Spruce

Crafted by Allen Herres

Bear Bottom Inn Cottonwood Stump Carvings on Spruce

Crafted by Allen Herres.

Bear Bottom Inn Cottonwood Carvings

When all of the cottonwood trees along Spruce between Capitol and Main Street (in front of the Bear Bottom Inn aka the former Uresti Home) died because the above ground irrigation ditch was removed by the City of Mackay, Allen Herres crafted these wonderful animals out of the stumps in 1995.

Bear Bottom Inn Before 1996

The building on Spruce where the Bear Bottom Inn is located today was the Uresti Home prior to this photo. Note the Hazel Lundberg Home on the corner of Spruce and Main. This photo was May 1983.

Mackay's Bear Bottom Inn Opens Motel For Season March 6 2010

Located on Spruce between Main Street and Capitol. Call 208-589-8939 For Reservations.