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New growth: A longtime dining destination amid the redwoods has reopened under new ownership

by Kate Bradshaw

The Mountain House has stood atop Skyline Boulevard for the past century, serving as a gathering place for adventurers, loggers and locals in the redwood forests of Kings Mountain near Woodside. Since the early 1900s it has served a range of community functions, first as the Red Pump, a water pump station for homesteaders, then as Kings Mountain Rendezvous, a frontier saloon and likely a brothel, according to chef Will Roberts. It later became Alex's Mountain House before Alex's was dropped and the site became a restaurant in the 1980s. (It also served as the setting of Neil Young's "Harvest Moon" music video in the 1990s).

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