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Rates

Rates

To secure your week we need a deposit of 50% at the time of booking. Then 30 days before arrival your balance is due. WE DO NOT TAKE CREDIT OR DEBIT CARDS. PERSONAL OR BANK CHECKS ONLY.

Rent the Ranch is $3,000
Guest Cabin is $1,200

REFUND POLICY

If your plans change, your deposit is good for up to ONE YEAR. It has only happened a few weeks in the last few decades but we have had to cancel trips due to forest fires, floods or other circumstances beyond our control. We do not offer any refunds of deposit but we are happy to rebook you for a later date within ONE YEAR. We recommend you purchase trip insurance-- TravelGuard is just one example, 1-866-833-8784.

Group Contact Person

Each group must have JUST ONE contact person. This person will make deposit and balance payments collected from each member of their group. We cannot take individual payments from each person. This person will also distribute ranch information to the other members in the group.

How To Make A Reservation

We have a very short season up here so there are a limited number of weeks to visit.
Our 2022 season starts the week of May 8th and ends the week of September 25th. All our weeks start on Sunday and end on Saturday.
We open bookings on November 1st at 10am Mountain Time to RENT THE RANCH
We open bookings on November 2nd at 10am Mountain Time to RENT THE GUEST CABIN

We only take reservations through email at nbarranch1@gmail.com
We go by the time stamp on the email to set the order of filling reservations. Do not email early or you will be moved to the end of the line.
At 10am Mountain Time email your top three weeks you would like to visit and a phone number to reach you.

When your turn comes up, we will call and let you know which of your week choices we can offer you.
July, August, and September always fill up in the first couple of hours. May and June are easier to get a week of your choice.

Getting Here

We will send detailed driving instructions to get you from the town of Reserve to the ranch. DO NOT trust your on board navigation system once you are in the National Forest. It will lie to you and get you lost!
THE ROAD TO PARADISE IS NOT PAVED
The drive up the mountain is about 38 miles from town. Most of it is paved but has plenty of pot holes. There are several switchbacks in the first 10 miles but nothing scary. Big semi’s hauling cattle come in every year so you can too. The last 13 miles is gravel with washboard but no need for high clearance or 4x4. Figure on 1.5 hours at least to drive from the town of Reserve to the ranch.

Ranch Packing List

The cookhouse has every type of pot, pan, utensils you could ever need, but does not have a microwave.

Bring Your Own...


  1. Paper towels, Toilet Paper, Napkins
  2. Spices
  3. Dishwashing soap and sponges
  4. Your usual camping kitchen stuff like tin foil, baggies, etc.
  5. Lawn chairs
  6. Charcoal and lighter
  7. Lantern, for use at the shelter picnic tables

Personal Gear


  1. Sleeping bag!!! Our beds only have a clean bottom sheet, pillow and case.
  2. Shower towel
  3. Sunscreen, lip smear
  4. Medium coat, even in the summer. Once the sun goes down so does the temperature.
  5. All your medications! We are a long, long way from a drug store.

What to Forget!

  • We have no electricity so leave those blow dryers, curling irons, shavers, and radios at home.
  • Cell phones don't work and there is no internet, sometimes you have to disconnect to reconnect.

Weather

Our Weather…
Early May it can be cold, or it can be warm. It can snow, or it can be sunny for days. But figure highs in the 50’s lows in the upper 20’s to low 30’s. By the end of May and early June our weather has usually really changed. Much less chance of any precipitation.

June is our warmest, driest month with highs in the mid 80’s and sometimes we will even get to 90 but with LOW, LOW humidity. Nights cool off rapidly with lows in the upper 30’s and 40’s and we can get a frost as late as the third week of June. The country is still gold and brown, we don’t usually have a green spring, that happens in…

July, August and September after our summer rains start about the first week of July. Then our world comes alive! Most days start out sunny and cloudless, by noon the temperature is about 85 with the first thunderheads forming over the peaks. Mid afternoon cools off to the 70’s and thunder storms bang around. It is not often wide covering, you can usually ride around them and miss a drenching. Summer nights are almost never over 50.

Late September we have our first frost after cooler days in the 60’s the last week or so of the month.

October brings frost most every morning but perfect fall days in the 60’s and 70’s the first few weeks and later in October it will be in the 50’s and 60’s with nights in the upper 20’s.

Special times of the year…
Late May and early June is Elk calving time. This is when you can see herds numbering in the hundreds out in the grasslands. On horseback it is easy to get close for amazing photos.

Wildflowers show up 2nd week of July and peak at the end of August. It is as if some one took a pallet of colors and wildly smeared it across the landscape.

August is rainbow time, almost daily some where you can see one, often doubles and rare but special are the triple rainbows.

Mid September through early October is the time to come hear the bull elk bugle. We are not talking about a distant lone bugle, we mean a chorus of bulls bugling all around the cabins and keeping you awake. It is an amazing time.

October is also when the Aspen trees change the mountains to shades of gold.