You should pass all relevant information in the Model. Ideally your menu will be rendered as a Partial View by a separate controller method. I have a Navigation controller with actions like MainMenu, FooterMenu, Breadcrumbs, etc that render individual parts.
The answer from Jakub led me in the right direction...here is the controller action I ended up with.
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