Best Country Dinner in Colorado Springs · Colorado Springs, CO
Juniper Valley Ranch has served the same country dinner south of Colorado Springs since 1951: skillet-fried chicken or baked ham with all the fixings, brought to the table family-style at a rambling ranch house under the foothills. The menu has barely changed in five generations of the founding family.
Open only a few days a week and seasonally, the ranch is a Pikes Peak-region tradition — a scratch-cooked Sunday-dinner experience that draws Coloradans back year after year.
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