LODGING
The Bunkhouse
The whole building, yours to fill — bunks and beds for a family or a crew.
$540 / night
I'm Dell — wrangler here, and the fella who'll likely hand you your room key and a cup of coffee the next morning. Here's the thing about staying at Beargrass: this is a real outfit, not a resort dressed up to look like one. You wake to the actual sounds of the place. Magpies arguing in the cottonwoods. A horse blowing in the corral. Wade and the crew moving cattle on the far meadow before the heat comes up, and the smell of bacon drifting out of the cookhouse a good while before you've decided you're hungry.
Step out onto your porch and there it is — seven thousand acres running from the Flathead River up into the Whitefish Range, the larch and lodgepole going dark green on the slopes, and in July the high meadows gone white with the beargrass that gave this place its name. The west gate of Glacier is a short drive up Highway 2. But most mornings you won't want to leave. The ranch has a way of slowing a person down to its own pace, and that's rather the point.
LODGING
The whole building, yours to fill — bunks and beds for a family or a crew.
$540 / night
LODGING
A private log cabin in the trees, with a wood stove and a covered porch.
$320 / night
LODGING
A warm room in the main lodge, steps from the cookhouse and the woodstove.
$245 / night
LODGING
Canvas wall-tent glamping on a cedar platform, with a real bed and a wood stove.
$185 / nightWe keep lodging simple and honest, four kinds of it, so there's a right fit whether you're a couple chasing quiet or a whole family arriving in a caravan. A room at the main lodge puts you in the warm heart of the place — woodstove, big windows, the cookhouse just down the hall. The Larch Cabin is your own log cabin set back in the trees, private as can be, for folks who want a door that closes on the world. The Bunkhouse is the whole building, yours to fill — bunks and beds enough for a crew, a reunion, or a family that travels in numbers. And the Beargrass Wall Tents are canvas on cedar platforms out toward the river: real beds, real comfort, but nothing between you and the night but good waxed canvas and a wood stove.
None of it is fancy for fancy's sake. It's built the way the ranch is built — to last, to keep you warm, and to put you square in the middle of the country you came to see.
Whatever roof you sleep under, the rest of the ranch comes with it. Meals at the cookhouse are the center of the day — Rosa cooks three squares on ranch-raised beef, garden vegetables, bread from her own oven, and pie if you're lucky, all served family-style at the long tables. Breakfast and supper are part of your stay; pack a lunch from the kitchen if you're headed out on the land.
And the land is yours to walk. Miles of ranch road and river trail, a swimming hole when the Flathead runs warm in August, fishing off the bank, and a porch swing or a fire ring waiting at the end of every day. You'll get a proper welcome when you roll in — directions that make sense, an introduction to the horses if you want one, and an honest answer to anything you ask. Coffee's on before dawn for the early risers. That's just how it works here.
We open the gates to guests May through October, and each stretch has its own character. May and June bring high water, green grass, and newborn calves. July is beargrass and long warm evenings. August is river days and ripe huckleberries up high. And October is the one I'd pick if you made me choose — the larch turning solid gold across the whole valley, the cattle coming down, woodsmoke and frost on the morning. After October the outfit turns toward the fall hunt and the ranch settles in for winter; off-season stays are by arrangement.
In the busy summer months we ask for a two-night minimum — a place like this is wasted on a single night, and you'll be glad of the extra morning. Rooms and cabins go first for July and for the fall-larch weeks, so book ahead if your dates are set. Give us a call at 406-892-4700 or check the dates that work for you, and we'll get you sorted.