Prior to the 1920s, the Wyoming plains were home to the Shoshone Indians, who along with the Northern Cheyenne, the Arapahoe, and the Utes all passed through this area which was then populated by thousands of buffalo as far as the eye could see. back to a warm fire.Įlk Mountain Ranch is the complete example of “Wild Spaces, Working Places”, where the raising of buffalo mirrors times gone past when all the animals shared the landscape and where man is dovetailing the environment with a working ranch. summit, take fishing guides to the nearby North Platte and Medicine Bow Rivers, windsurf in the big lake (100± acres), or view big game animals including bison, elk, mule deer, and antelope.Įxploration can include following the seven miles of the original Overland Trail which passes through the ranch, see the stone carvings of the cavalry soldiers, explore around the early pioneers’ log cabins, visit the memorial to the two deputy sheriffs shot on the ranch by notorious bandit “Big Nose George”, watch a horse logger dragging logs through the forest with huge draft horses, explore for arrowheads and artifacts of the pioneer days, catalogue the prolific wildflower varieties, ride horses or hike to the summit of Elk Mountain, and in winter ride snowmobiles to the summit to downhill ski over 3,000 ft. Guests on the ranch might choose to fish for trophy trout in one of the several lakes, viewbirds of enormous variety, including golden and bald eagles, prairie and peregrine falcons, ride horseback through prairies, timber, and meadows, hike Elk Mountain to its 11,000 ft. This vast ecosystem within the ranch was described by an officer of the Nature Conservancy as “equivalent to a National Park-type landscape”. The 22,041 deeded acres combined with the 10,805 acres of leased lands are blocked up together in a combined habitat for elk, buffalo, Rocky Mountain Mule Deer, pronghorn antelope, black bear, and cougar. Elk Mountain it descends through talus covered summit habitat, through high alpine meadows and timbered slopes onto aspen and spruce choked ravines opening onto lush meadows and broadening into ever more gentle slopes leading to 1,000s of acres of broad meadows, interspersed with lakes (there are 5 lakes on the ranch),thence prairies and sage covered hills. Elk Mountain Ranch is an enormous canvas comprising 51+ square miles of every type of ecosystem found in the Rocky Mountains.
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