Beargrass Ranch
Cattle and horses on a Montana ranch meadow at golden hour beneath the Whitefish Range

FLATHEAD VALLEY, MONTANA · SINCE 1947

Beargrass Ranch

A working cattle ranch and outfit in Montana's Flathead Valley — open to guests since 1947.

A working ranch you can come home to

For four generations the Calloway family has run cattle and horses on seven thousand acres between the Flathead River and the Whitefish Range, a short drive from the west gate of Glacier National Park. From May through October, we open the gate. Come stay in a log cabin or a canvas wall tent, ride out across country that still works for a living, fish a river that runs cold and clear off the mountains, and sit down to supper at a long cookhouse table. This is not a theme of the West. It is the real thing, and you are welcome at it.

Everything the season offers

Saddle a horse for a half-day ride or pack into the backcountry for a week. Wade the Flathead with a guide who knows every run. Spend a morning as a ranch hand moving cattle, then an afternoon on the porch with nowhere to be. Browse the Mercantile for goods made by Montana hands — hand-braided horsehair, tooled leather, forged steel, ranch wool, wildflower honey. However you spend the day, it ends the same way: a good meal, big sky, and the quiet you came for.

A peeled-log cabin with a covered porch set among larch trees at Beargrass Ranch, woodsmoke rising against the Montana timber

LODGING

The Larch Cabin

A private log cabin in the trees, with a wood stove and a covered porch.

$320 / night
A pack string of horses and mules climbing into the high country above Beargrass Ranch with the Whitefish Range behind

GUIDED RIDES

Backcountry Pack Trip

A multi-day horseback trip into the high country, camp and meals included.

By inquiry
Riders on ranch horses climbing a timbered trail above the hay meadows at Beargrass Ranch in the Flathead Valley

GUIDED RIDES

Half-Day Trail Ride

A guided half-day ride through meadow and timber toward the Whitefish Range.

$140 / rider

From the Mercantile

A few favorites from the Montana makers we carry.

Hand-braided horsehair hatband wrapped around a felt cowboy hat crown

HATBANDS

Braided Horsehair Hatband

A hand-braided horsehair hatband with tassels, sized to your hat's crown.

$34
Heavy natural-wool Beargrass Camp Blanket folded on a bunk in a Montana ranch cabin

BEARGRASS WOOLENS

Beargrass Camp Blanket

A heavy wool camp blanket woven from our own ranch wool.

$210
Long chambray-tone horsehair lariat necklace draped and knotted

WOMEN'S NECKWEAR

Chambray Lariat Necklace

A long hand-braided horsehair lariat in soft chambray tones, styled your way.

$43
Liberty hand-braided horsehair adjustable bracelet on a wrist

ADJUSTABLE BRACELETS

Liberty Adjustable Bracelet

The everyday classic: a hand-braided horsehair bracelet that adjusts to any wrist.

$23
Beargrass Ranch hay meadows and weathered outbuildings spread along the valley floor beneath the snow-streaked peaks of the Whitefish Range

Since 1947

Here since 1947

Walter and Ada Calloway built this place after the war; their grandchildren run it now. The cattle still come first, the way they always have — which is exactly why a stay here feels like the genuine article. Read the ranch's story.

Come see us this season

Guest season runs May through October. Book a cabin, a ride, or a seat at the table.