Berthoud Animal Hospital to move into former Wayside Inn

BERTHOUD — Restaurant equipment from a longtime Berthoud eatery was to be auctioned off online today, after the building’s purchase by a pair of veterinarians who plan to convert it into an animal hospital.

Drs. Trish Miller and Ken Bixel, owners of Berthoud Animal Hospital, closed Nov. 16 on the $575,000 purchase of the building at 505 W. Mountain Ave. that for decades housed the Wayside Inn but has sat vacant for the past six years.

The seller was JPCL Enterprises of Fort Collins, which conducted today’s sale of the restaurant fixtures.

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The veterinary hospital, which opened in 1977 at 115 Turner Ave. and occupies less than 2,000 square feet, will be able to more than double its size when it moves into the building, probably in mid-2016.

Known for years for its fried chicken, the Wayside Inn went through several ownership changes, added a dinner theater in 1983, was destroyed by fire on Christmas Eve 1993, rebuilt and reopened in 1995, remodeled and opened again in 2007 and closed in 2009.