Thank you for Choosing the Ole Bakery Cafe Our Summer Hours are from 6:30am to 8pm Daily All orders can be prepared TO GO (970) 856-3366
Enjoy your meal inside or on the deck by the stream. No fishing from the deck until after 8pm please. Make Sure to Stop into Pioneer Town While In Cedaredge The Ole Bakery Café sits at 365 N. Grand Mesa Drive on Highway 65 at the North Edge of Cedaredge, CO. across from the old Cedaredge High School at about 6100 feet above sea level. Originally the Ole Bakery Café was a house with a Black Smiths Shop out front. Over the years it became a bakery with several additions to the original building. At one time the Ole Bakery was referred to by the high school students across the street as the “Squat and Gobble.” I heard a story once about the Ole Bakery when it was owned by the Perkins family. It seems that Mr. Perkins would come in early and bake donuts and put them out on the counter. Individuals would come in and pick up donuts and leave the money in a collection box. The Perkins thought maybe they we not being paid the correct amount for the donuts, so Mrs. Perkins came in to collect the money and make change. I heard they came out with less money. I also heard that Mr. Perkins went fishing after he made the baked goods. I can believe that since his daughter Robin caught the world record Splake trout out of Island Lake on the Grand Mesa that still hangs on the wall in Leisure Time Sports in Cedaredge. 18 miles to the North is the summit of Highway 65 on top the Grand Mesa at 10, 836 feet above sea level. Needless to say, traveling from the Ole Bakery Café where we receive maybe a couple of feet of snow annually to the summit of the Grand Mesa where the average annual snowfall is 35 feet one travels through several temperate zones. Spring on the Mesa starts about the first of July and fall begins the first of August. There are four seasons on the Mesa. They are July, August, Winter and Mosquitoes. The climate at 12,500 feet in Colorado is as if you were at the Arctic Circle. The Mesa reaches over 11,200 feet in altitude. There are about 300 lakes on the Grand Mesa and because of the altitude the climate and lakes of the Grand Mesa makes the Mesa like a miniature Minnesota. There is an old fire lookout station on top Leon Peak in the Grand Mesa National Forest. This lookout was only used for a couple of summers due to the severe lightening strikes. The Mesa is sometimes referred to as Thunder Mountain because of the sudden severe storms the mountain creates.