Billie Ann Ford was a woman rich in Montana lore, spending her summers riding horses on trails and mountains surrounding her ...

Monica Ellis, Lone Mountain Ranch’s head wrangler, points up the hill. A group of 15 wranglers—all but one, women—descend ...

I've always lived in major cities like New York and Rome, and vacation in Tuscany or the Hamptons. This summer I tried something very different. I brought my two adult kids to a Montana dude ranch. I ...

CUSTER GALLATIN NATIONAL FOREST — It was mid-August, the last week for hosting guests at the OTO, Montana’s first dude ranch. As ranch hands and wranglers decompressed in the heat, a few details from ...

Mara Silvers Montana Free Press With nearly 24,000 farms and ranches operating in Montana, the state’s residents are pitching in to produce a wide variety of food — from beef to chickpeas — for ...

Instagram is overflowing with pictures of friends on Caribbean vacations and walking the streets of Brooklyn. But to get away from the mundane sameness of my daily routine, I escaped to a dude ranch ...