ESSEX, Mont. — The Izaak Walton Inn, the trackside property along BNSF main line adjacent to Glacier National Park that is a longtime railfan destination, is under new ownership.
The Daily Inter Lake reports that Brian Kelly, who has owned the property since 2006, has sold it to Loge Camps, a hotel marketed toward outdoors adventure clientele.
The hotel, with its rental cabins including cabooses and an F45 locomotive on a 100-acre property, sold for $13.5 million.
Gavin Burns, Loge Camps’ vice president for business development, told the newspaper the company will update rooms and update the hotel’s café but that most of the property will not be changed: “We’re not developers. We’re remodelers,” he said. “The property has so much character and great history.”
The hotel dates to 1939, when it was built by the Great Northern Railway to provide lodging for railroad workers. It was named to the National Register of Histroic Places in 1985.
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