Beargrass Ranch

LODGING

The Larch Cabin

Our most private lodging — a hand-built log cabin tucked back in the trees, away from the lodge and the corrals. It's yours alone: a wood stove, a real bed, a small kitchen for coffee and a nightcap, and a covered porch that looks into the timber. Breakfast and supper at the cookhouse are still part of the stay whenever you want company; the rest of the time it's just you, the woodsmoke, and the country.

Bud Calloway built the first of the ranch's guest cabins back in the 1970s, and the Larch Cabin is cut from that same honest cloth — peeled logs, a deep porch, a roof that's seen a lot of Montana weather and held. It sits well back in the larch and lodgepole, far enough from the working heart of the place that the loudest thing you'll hear is wind in the timber and, come dusk, an owl going to work.

Inside, a wood stove throws real heat against the cool of a mountain night, and there's split larch stacked under the eave to feed it. The bed is piled with wool, the little kitchen will do for coffee at dawn and a whiskey after dark, and the lamplight is the soft kind. In July you can smell the beargrass on the breeze; in October the trees all around you go gold and the cabin sits in the middle of it like a held breath.

This is the one I send couples to, and anyone who's come a long way for quiet. You're welcome at every meal and every campfire down at the lodge — but you've also got a porch all your own, a fire in the stove, and a door that shuts the whole busy world out.

When: 2-night minimum, May–October

  • A private hand-built log cabin, set apart in the trees
  • Wood stove with split larch laid in, and a covered porch
  • Small kitchen for coffee and a nightcap
  • Breakfast and supper at the cookhouse whenever you want them
  • Run of the ranch — trails, river, and the horse string
$320 / nightBook or inquire
  • Sleeps2–3 guests
  • BedsOne queen plus a daybed
  • BathPrivate, with a deep soaking tub
  • ViewLarch and lodgepole timber
  • SeasonMay–October