Lonesome Spur Guest Ranch Co

The Lonesome Spur Ranch is a real working ranch, where you are invited to fulfill your dream of a true Western adventure!Ask Nicholas Evans, author of “The Horse Whisperer". Mr. Evans stayed with Lonnie while doing research for his best seller novel. The Lonesome Spur was also the model for Tom Booker's grandparents’ homestead looking out over the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River. "From its crest you could see the river curving around like a castle moat and in the distance the snowy peaks of the Pryor and Beartooth Mountains". We invite you to join us year round. Guests will experience the life of a true cowboy – long days in the saddle branding and moving cattle. We do expect you to lend a hand and ride for the brand. The type of work we do is dictated by the seasons. The weeks of February and March see us calving out and tending to the cows; we usually ride the pastures and bring the cows in to calve in the corrals. We also go skiing at Red Lodge. The weeks in April, we will be getting our mares ready for foaling and working our home-bred young stock. Late April may also see us starting to brand some of the early born calves. May and June are key times for branding and gathering cattle and this is a great time for our guests who like to do more physical ranch work and harder riding days. Cody nite rodeo starts 1st June and we go on a weekly basis.