I've always lived in major cities like New York and Rome, and vacation in Tuscany or the Hamptons. This summer I tried something very different. I brought my two adult kids to a Montana dude ranch. I ...

Monica Ellis, Lone Mountain Ranch’s head wrangler, points up the hill. A group of 15 wranglers—all but one, women—descend ...

It was mid-August, the last week for hosting guests at the OTO, Montana’s first dude ranch. As ranch hands and wranglers decompressed in the heat, a few details from the trip stood out. The fly ...

Dale Vested runs cattle on the same Montana ranch his father did and his grandfather before him. He’s now donated the 38,000-acre, $21 million ranch ...

Ranch vacations used to mean rustic accommodations and questionable plumbing. Maybe a lumpy mattress in a converted barn if you were lucky. But somewhere along the way, that changed completely. Now ...

CUSTER GALLATIN NATIONAL FOREST — It was mid-August, the last week for hosting guests at the OTO, Montana’s first dude ranch. As ranch hands and wranglers decompressed in the heat, a few details from ...