NATURE EXPLORERS PARADISE  

Staying at the ranch was one of the highlights of our ride along the Great Divide Mountain Bike Ride (GDMBR);  we had no idea what to expect staying on a ranch in this remote part of Montana and our stay was ideal.  The cabin was perfect, the location beautiful and Donna made us feel welcome as if we were family visiting.   A great place to stay overnight on your route or stay a few days - you can do a not-to-technical mountain biking (off the GDMBR route) or to spend the day hiking, fishing or just relaxing before moving on.   Hildreth Ranch is a hidden jewel and we highly recommend you plan on a stay at the Ranch.

Tom and Stephanie DiPalma

No where else can you travel on top of the Continental Divide for such a distance of nine miles as you can from the mountains lying next to the Hildreth Ranch.

Stand at 9500 feet, with one leg in Montana where the water goes to the Atlantic and the other leg in Idaho where the water goes to the Pacific, while enjoying panoramic vistas and abundant wildlife, accessible out our front door via hiking, biking or driving.

Fish with the sounds of meadow grass being blown by the breeze.

Where else can you find everything that the outdoors has to offer buy stepping out the door? Deer, elk, antelope, moose, song birds, sandhill cranes, eagles, hawks, and many other animals to be seen in a pleasant atmosphere. 

No highways with busy motorists zooming by, no urban developments to dull the experience of tranquility.  

Nights with sounds of creatures serenading rather than vehicles dashing. Twinkling stars like most have rarely perceived. The mountain air so refreshing that you want to bottle it up and take it home.

Fish the two mountain lakes,  valley streams, Blue Ribbon Beaverhead River, Hap Hawkins/Clark Canyon Reservoir or the ranch's own stocked trout ponds.

Real Rocky Mountain pristine Montana country. Encounter nature's virtue. Escape and be mesmerized to the panoramas and sounds that will delight the soul. Explore old homesteads and ghost towns.

Highest elevation home-based, year-round livestock ranch in Montana, with valley fields starting at over 7,200 feet and the summer grazing reaching 10,000 feet in elevation.

Last of four ranches in the valley which stretches 30 miles in length and reaching further into the Tendoy and Bitterroot Mountain Range

Tendoy Indian girls  camped at Hildreth  Ranch. 1913.