CONEY ISLAND BOARDWALK
10 Old Stagecoach Road, Bailey
After living in Colorado for almost 23 years, I finally pulled over at this riverside wiener stand. Its 42-foot-long, 18-ton frank is surrounded by a wooden deck with umbrellaed patio tables, but inside, the dinerlike interior offers redtopped barstools, a circular booth, and a trip back to the 1960s. According to my postmeal Googlings, the Coney Island hot dog stand was built in 1966 on West Colfax Avenue, which seems about right. Four years later, though, someone put the hot dog on wheels and stationed it in Aspen Park, where it stayed until 2006, when it rolled into Bailey. There was a for-sale sign in the front window when I was there, so I hope the place doesn’t close. It’s a little…
