Rock Creek Tavern

Rock Creek is rockin'!

Looking for a jam to jump into?
Players of intermediate skill and above are invited to our weekly Bluegrass Jam circle every Tuesday at 7pm!

McMenamins' community landmark Hillsboro tavern, Rock Creek, came back and better than ever after a fire that reduced the beloved original building to a pile of cinders in September 2002.

With an eye to preserving the past, the outside of the new tavern looks nearly identical to its predecessor. To achieve this authenticity, we used timbers from two local barns (one dating back to the late 1800s) in the rebuild. The new tavern includes an elevated outside patio. 

Rock Creek Tavern is off the beaten path. With a pool table, a 22-foot shuffleboard and great food and ales, there's no finer place to while away an evening than in this rustic lair.

Friends and families, young and old — all are welcome.

McMenamins Rock Creek allows pets on the west patio facing NW Old Cornelius Pass Road only.

Bombed in the 1930s, closed up at the end of the 1960s, run over by a car in the late 1990s, and twice destroyed by fire during its nearly 100 years, and yet, here Rock Creek Tavern stands, invigorated for another go-round, fueled by what's happened before and that which is yet to come.

Read about the Rock Creek's involvement in the Beer Wars of the 1930s and 1940s. And that's just the beginning....