The cabins were built for different reasons, most serving the needs of the Pentecostal Retreats in the early years. Today they are named for their original purpose, being remodeled and several are available for long-term housing of the local workforce.  While cabinites come and go, the cabins keep their stories for future generations to experience.  Living at Grandmas means a lifetime of memories and experiences.  Discover the history and evolution of each cabin below.  

Photo: Blue Grama plays the annual summer solstice party on the deck of the Breckenridge Cabin.

The oldest structure on the property, this cabin was built to serve fisherman coming to the high country to catch cut throat trout at the headwaters of the Colorado river.  It was built in 1908 when the town was known as Easton.  

Grandmas Cabin is a celebratory place that hosts holiday feasts throughout the year.  In the summer it can be home to former cabinites that come home to enjoy the cool mountain weather.  At any time you might find a band rehearsing for the summer solstice party, a gathering of cabinites for Thanksgiving dinner, or wayward wanderer sleeping in the back room.  

The pump house was built in 1984 to provide running water, a bathtub and toilet to Grandma’s for the first time.  It has been added on to and remodeled over the years, but continues to be the most important cabin on the property.  For many years, the upstairs apartment was the first stage of moving to the property, before you moved up into another.  

Grandma’s flock at the revivals needed their sustenance and they can to the Kitchen to fill their plates. Grandma and Grandpa Miller built the kitchen and storage first.  

It is said that there were up to five wood cook stoves at one point and the people would come in one door, go through the line and out the other. This was the first cabin to have year-round residents in 1973. 

The Miller’s originally had land and held the retreats in Breckenridge, Colorado. 

When Porter and Rounds Lumber began developing the ski area after receiving a permit from the U.S. Forest Service in 1961.  Fearing an explosion of people, Wilma and her husband had decided to relocate themselves and their cabin from Breckenridge to Fraser in 1962.  

Built in 1984, the AirStream was put on the property in 2001 when Keith and Dan used a bulldozer to get it into place.  It is located next to the pump house so it almost feels like having running water.  

In 1977, cabinites Al and Donna traveled up I-70 from Denver towing a damaged truck, a utility vehicle and a small RV.  This RV became known as the African Queen.  Read Donna's story about the first days of the Queen.

Once a garage for Bill, this cabin appeared in 1984 to house a speedy corvette.  It has also been the home of some motorcycles, an American flag and some unique tapestries.  Back in the late 90s, it was the home for some garage rock led by local youth.

Another original cabin built by Grandma and Grandpa MIller in the early years.  This slowly grew to have a deck, covered porch, then closed in walls that doubled its size. This cabin has housed several of Grandma’s important residents, including the author of the Toilet Tales.  The Storage cabin was remodeled in 2022 with repairs and improvements. 

 

Built by Dave Abermoff in 1984, all of the materials from this cabin were reclaimed by the crew at Grandmas. When the ski area was opening it sent out a call to everyone in the valley seeking anyone who wanted materials from some old cabins on the property.  At the time, this cabin sit was dense with trees.  With an upper balcony, hacky sack was the preferred past time during snowy nights.  Someone would be downstairs kicking the hack upstairs to their partner.  

The Office is a true representation of the meaning of tiny home.  It transformed into a home sometime in early 2000s.  In 2022, it received a facelift with a nearby fire pit for small gatherings.  

One of the original cabins on the property when Grandma Miller bought it.

Once a root cellar for Grandma's mincemeat pie and vegetables, the building became a cabin for a local youth that grew up in the Fraser Valley back in the early 2000s.  It was remodeled and insulated sometime between 2010 and 2018.