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Food photos by Cottonwood Station

Article and Photos by Norm Kresge
The idea for the café menu was to make it found the patio to be particularly pleasant even on
year this past April, Jody Lyman and that name because Blue Diamond was originally simple and small with items made in-house. The days when it's very windy. The restaurant tends to
A Steven Enger opened the café named known as Cottonwood Springs and was a stop on café serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner; but it's shield the patio and it makes an enjoyable place
Cottonwood Station the old Spanish Trail. Some of the wood from the also a great place to stop in the morning for a to sit.
in the Village of Blue original building makes up part of the inside walls. sweet or breakfast panini and some coffee. Order
Diamond. Lyman came at the counter, take a metal holder with a number, Cottonwood Station has become a place where
from Napa Valley in Jody was a be seated, and your food will be brought to your people can connect—whether with a group or
California. The couple member of the Blue table inside or on the patio. Our hiking group has solo. It's a comfortable place with good people
settled in Blue Dia- Diamond History and good food.
mond, a small commu- Committee before
nity that appealed to building the café.
both of them. She designed Cot-
tonwood
Having done a Station with the
number of road trips, idea of showing and
Volunteers dedicated to the preservation of Red Rock Canyon
they noticed that all the preserving
little towns they went the history of Blue

Jody Lyman on the patio at through had restaurants Diamond, including
Cottonwood Station or small cafés. This an old truck that is
was something miss- part of the signage
ing from Blue Diamond and they decided to build for the café. After
a restaurant in the village. Keeping in mind the walking up the
residents of the village, they designed the building steps, you walk
themselves with none of the windows or doors fac- down a hallway that
ing any of the houses. has many reproduc-
tions of historic
The old building they bought once served as photographs of the
garages for the homes nearby. They had become village. The patio
storage areas is decorated with
and one sec- some interesting
tion was a Blue Diamond
workshop. objects. There is
They named also a large photo
the restaurant of cattle somewhere
Cottonwood between Blue Dia-
Station, mond and Spring Mountain Ranch, as best as can
giving it be determined.

the Rock - Volume 9 Issue 4 Summer 2019