Located on the corner of the town's only main intersection, the Pinos Altos Ice Cream Parlor and Cafe also houses the Post Office and a gift shop. It is the very heart of this historic gold-mining town.


Open Mondays through Saturdays from 10:00 am through 6:00 pm, the Ice Cream Parlor and Cafe offers delicious home-made cakes, brownies and cookies. You've never had better sweets or ice cream! Ten ice cream flavors are offered year round, including a fantastic black walnut. A must try!

In the summer, locals and tourists alike sit outside and enjoy the beautiful mountain views of the Gila National Forest and watch what's happening on Main Street while they enjoy a great cup of coffee, a tastety lunch or a super banana split.

If your looking for eats, everthing on the cafe's menu is available from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. You can choose from eight homemade soups, BBQ and other sandwiches, burritos, hamburgers, hot dogs, and breakfast items. Items that consistently recieve customer compliments are the biscuits with sausage gravy, Suzy's Pozole (a pork and hominy red chile stew), Gary's world class tuna sandwich, and the best green chile cheeseburger on the Continental Divide.

For those visitors wanting something special to take home for themselves or a friend, a variety of hand-made items by local artists and crafters are available in the Gift Shop.

Among other things, are home-made jams, stained glass, all sorts of ceramics, postcards, notecards, photographs, and books by local authors.

Other items include wind chimes, garden wind spinners, hats, jewelry, walking sticks, and magnets.

In the winter, you'll find everyone eating inside - perhaps warming up with a hearty bowl of home-made soup.


The inside is decorated with memorabilia and artifacts from the 1800's. Behind the counter is a large etched-glass mirror with lots of jars of "penny" candy. Old posters, signs and other memorabilia decorate the walls and add to the ambiance.

Completing the room, is an ornate antique coal-burning stove, complete with nickeled footrests for loafers and an ornamental superstructure which swings to one side to make room for a kettle or coffee pot.


No longer used as a source of heating, the stove is an awesome reminder of life in the past.

The owners of the Ice Cream Parlor, Gary and Suzy MacGrumbley, greet all of the locals by name as they come in to get their mail, share the current gossip and/or have some sweets.


Tourists seeking the natural beauty of the Gila National Forest also receive an equally warm greeting, friendly service and directions, when needed.

As the Postmaster, Gary usually has the mail up in the 185 mailboxes by about 11:00 and is behind the bars of the antique postoffice, processing the mail for pickup at noon.


The post office cage and battery of post office boxes are relics from the original Tyrone, New Mexico post office, which was razed in the late 1960's to make room for the opening of a gigantic open pit copper mine by Phelps Dodge Corporation.