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Welcome to the Bitterroot online magazine. From discounts and recent press to ranch videos and recipes and from tales about the first days of the ranch to helpful riding tips you will find all sorts of information in these pages. We hope this is a great resource as you decide were to go on a horse riding vacation or as you reminisce about your past experiences at the ranch. If you would like to share a story, images or a video from your visit we would love to hear from you. Happy trails!

The generation of young men who grew up in the shadow of World War II but were too young to fight came of age idealizing patriotism and adventure. They burned to  live life to the fullest and to do their part in the Cold War. In 1951, when Bayard Fox graduated Yale, the CIA promised a…

For the past several years many of our guests have enjoyed riding with head wrangler Ross Marine. He is a skilled horseman who also has an in-depth knowledge of local history, geology, flora and fauna. Not to mention his keen wit! We are therefore very excited to offer an all new opportunity to join Ross…

We are excited to offer two combined Yoga and riding retreats during the 2022 season! Marc Holzman will be visiting for his third season at the ranch. Marc’s two retreats will be in July and August this year.

Sorry, discount no longer offered for these weeks! Help us get the 2022 season off to a great start at a special discounted price! Come to the mountains of Wyoming and enjoy the blue skies, fresh air and wide open spaces. It should be a great time to see the wildlife with large herds of…

The Wyoming Game and Fish selects Bitterroot as 2018 Land Owner of the Year The ranch is located in the midst of the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, which is the largest wilderness in the contiguous United States and an unspoiled treasure filled with abundant wildlife and spectacular scenery. We feel deeply privileged to call a small…

As an introduction, I thought it would be appropriate to include the credo of the Royal Flyfishing shop in Bavaria, whose owners recently visited the Bitterroot Ranch on a fishing holiday. I have translated it from the German as faithfully as possible, always trying to maintain the true spirit of Eva Geigl’s account, though I…

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department recognizes the great value of the East Fork of the Wind River as a native cutthroat fishery and asked Bayard and Richard to help bring to life the water that flows through the Bitterroot Ranch. It gives a feel for some of the great scenery and variety of fishing…

The incredible Bitterroot Ranch in Wyoming is one of our favorite places. We caught up with Richard Fox, son of Bayard Fox who has operated Bitterroot since 1971, to get his take on the life of a rancher in the 21st century. How did you come to be a rancher in Wyoming? To be honest,…

Bayard, founder of Equitours and Bitterroot Ranch, has ridden horses all his life and now runs a variety of unique riding adventure holidays, everywhere from Kenya to Mongolia via Wyoming From my ranch in Wyoming I can see a range of mountains, towering more than 13,000 feet into the sky. No other human dwelling in…

In the summer of 2014 a German TV crew visited the Bitterroot Ranch with TV star Ingo Zamperoni for our annual cattle drive into the Wyoming mountains. Warning, the show is in German but even if you don’t speak the language the footage is still entertaining. Watch all three clips below to view the full…

The snow is starting to melt at the ranch and we are getting excited for the coming season. The summer crew will arrive in a week and on the 25th of May the first guests arrive! There is always much to be done at this time of year. We have started to move the cattle…

The Bitterroot Ranch is described as “Dude Ranch Extraordinaire” in 1,000 Places to See before You Die by Patricia Schultz “In the embrace of a remote valley surrounded by the Shoshone National Forest and a 52,000 acre-game and fish wildlife refuge, Mel and Bayard Fox operate this 1,300 acre horse ranch, breeding and training their Arabian…