After 19 years, Boulder’s Mine Motel changes hands

After 19 years, Patricia Lewis has sold the Mine Motel in Boulder to Bo and Carlye Bolstad of South Helena. The sale was finalized on May 15; the hotel will stay open through the transition.

In 2002, Lewis purchased the motel from the Whittaker family, which had owned the motel for 19 years. Now, she said, it felt like time to “retire from the obligation and physical demands so that I can focus on other things.”

Those other things include: community service, taking care of herself and getting into shape, finding a winter destination, playing pickleball (a sport that combines badminton, tennis, and table tennis), and, of course, relaxing. “I’ve been self-employed since the mid-1980s. [It’s] time to be free of those constraints.”