Est. 1888
Built for the railroad. Kept for the trail.
An 1888 stone-arch inn
When this building went up in 1888, Frostburg ran on coal and steam. The depot below it was the busy end of the Cumberland and Pennsylvania line, and a stone inn beside the tracks made plain sense: railroad men needed a clean bed and a hot plate within walking distance of the yard.
The trains thinned out. The building did not. Its stone arches and heavy timber were built to outlast a century, and they did. What changed was the traffic at the door: not coal crews now, but cyclists, railfans, and families coming off the Great Allegheny Passage looking for the same thing those railroad men were after, a calm room a few steps from the rails.
Adam Forshee & Julie Forshee
Adam Forshee and Julie Forshee Forshee took on the old inn the way you take on something you refuse to let fall down: room by room, arch by arch. They kept the bones honest and made the stay modern where it counts. No front desk, no key handoff, just a door code on your phone and a town waiting outside.
The same hands run Tracks & Yaks down the street, which is why a railbike ride and a room book in one calm checkout. One family, one trail, one mountain.
Western Maryland Scenic Railroad
We work hand in hand with the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad, home of the Frostburg Flyer; historic steam locomotive 1309. Their steam locomotive still climbs the mountain from Cumberland, and our Queen City Combo rides pair that train with a railbike run, so you get the rails both ways. It is the rare partnership where the old way and the new way share one set of tracks.