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As you leave the paved
highway and start up the canyon along the rutted
road toward the mountain, you actually feel as if
you are traveling back in time.
Your hosts of
this Pryor Mountains working ranch have been in the
cattle business for generations. The ranch lies in a
very beautiful, peaceful, and quiet country which is
located about 50 miles south of Billings, Montana.
It is rolling, native grasslands with areas of pines
and canyons, laying along the Eastern slope of the
majestic Pryor Mountains which run East and West
along the Montana and Wyoming border. Very few
people have ever invaded its serene and spacious
lands. The cattle are wintered just east of Lovell
in Wyoming, where the ranch grows the feed to
complete the yearly cow and calf operation.
SPRING CATTLE DRIVES
Our spring cattle drive season starts in
mid-April to early May with three cattle drives from
Wyoming to Montana. We trail between 250 to 300
mother cows with their calves over an old Sioux
trail that stretches between 50 to 55 miles from
Wyoming to Montana. We will return to the ranch each
night.
SUMMER CATTLE DRIVES
Our summer cattle drive season starts the
last week in June and the first week in July. We
trail 300 head of cattle up into the Big Horn
Mountains (elevation 10,000 feet). We take our
guests and ride with our neighbors up the steep
mountain trail pushing cattle that need to go to
summer pastures in the top of the mountains.
We always visit the historical Medicine Wheel
Historical Site and marvel at the beautiful
countryside. You can easily see for several hundred
miles toward Yellowstone National Park from the top
of the Big Horn Mountains. This is definitely a
photographic paradise.
All riding levels are easily accomplished.
FALL
CATTLE DRIVES
Our fall cattle drives begin the fourth week
in October when we begin to gather our cows from
30,000 acres of ranch grazing pastures. The calves
have already been weaned in late September and the
cows are ready to leave the high country and make
the 50 mile trek to farm ground pastures in Wyoming
for the winter. We will return to the ranch each
night of the drive for a wonderful home cooked meal
and a warm dry bed.
Fall is a varied season to ride in Montana. The
trail home to Wyoming is full varied temperatures
and varied challenges and rugged awesome beauty.
This is what REAL cowboys experiences are made of.
Come ride with the
Cowboys.....
......It will change your life.
CDWY01
Rates include 7 nights lodging,
all meals except last night dinner, 5 riding days
8 days/ 7 nights $ 1,475
Single : + $40 for
last night hotel
Taxes: 9%
Gratuities: 10-15%
suggested
2008 Dates:
04/20-04/27
04/27-05/04
05/04-05/11
06/15-06/22
06/22-06/29
06/29-07/06
08/17-08/24 10/26-11/02
11/02-11/09
make reservation
Meeting: Lovell
Airport: Billings at 4 PM
Transfer: $75 - to pay locally
Tack: Western
Horses: Quarter Horses
Pace : Moderate with
trots and canters
Level:
Intermediate
Max : 14 riders
Notes: Sunday 4 pm to Sunday 9 am. last night
in hotel (dinner not included on last night)
Also
available are
Working Ranch Weeks
during the summer months or
Horse Drives .
Each trip starts on Sunday
afternoon with a pick up in Billings at 4:00 pm and
transfer to the ranch. You ride until Friday late
afternoon. On Saturday to transfer back to Billings,
stopping at some interesting sights along the way
and arriving by mid afternoon. You spend the last
night at a hotel in Billings (dinner is not included
on this day).
Accommodations
During the time at the ranch you will stay in the bunkhouse, at a room
in the ranch house or in one of the cabins. In the bunk house there are
six comfortable western style guest rooms and a shared bathroom. The
bunkhouse also has an inviting front porch to sit on and enjoy a quiet
moment or share cowboy stories with other guests.
The ranch house has 3 rooms with shared bathroom. The small ranch house
has a living room for the guests.
The cabins are reset and ready
for guests. We have decorated them with old ranch pictures of guests and
landscapes as the old blends into new.
Meals
Our guests eat three meals a
day with the family and our cowboys in the
cookhouse. Our ranch
home-style meals are served with hot homemade breads. Each week we serve
tender angus beef steaks, top sirloin roast, healthy vegetables, fresh
salads, homemade desserts and lots of chocolate chip cookies for the kid
in all of us. We promote beef on our ranch from pasture to plate.
One of the meals we are famous for is our Indian Tacos, you can only eat
one.
Our cook does a great job dealing with special
diets. Please let us know if you have special food needs. Our meals are
served buffet-style and several times a week we pack a lunch when we
ride out all day to move and work cattle.
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