At Oxbow, we have created a spectacular and profitable guest ranch model from a lifetime of living and working in beautiful destination mountain resort areas. We offer options to create your own legacy or guest ranch, or the potential to participate as an investor in our upcoming portfolio of guest ranch properties. Luxurious short-term vacation rentals are highly profitable and in growing demand, especially those that offer a connection to the romantic idea of the Wild West and beautiful Native American History. With a very unique combination of expertise, we provide a value-add level of design-build services, resort operating models, and specialized business qualifications that are truly top tier in the industry.
The American West is a majestic playground for many adventure seeking travelers. With so much to offer for those who enjoy the outdoors, it's no surprise that many small mountain towns are experiencing record breaking growth. The focus of our guest ranch model is to renew the life of the Wild West, family cattle ranches, and the serenity one feels surrounded by miles of open pasture, majestic mountain peaks and wildlife. Though many historical periods were certainly full of hardship, we strive to extract the beautiful elements of these times that are often imagined like sitting by a campfire, early morning coffee with the whinny of horses in the pasture, fly fishing gold metal waters and taking an outside nap with the beavers and the birds.
To accomplish this, our mission is to rescue as many retiring ranches and open space private property as possible from suburban sprawl, and instead, convert them into legacy and guest ranches. When land owners are contemplating options to sell, cashflow, or develop their land, we provide options that support wealth enhancement while preserving historical context and nature for future generations to enjoy.
Guest ranches with restored hand-hewn log cabins, luxurious teepees and canvas tents, intertwined with natural land features such as streams, hot springs, and forested cover, are beautiful ways to honor a legacy of mountain beauty and abundant wildlife that is deserving of preservation. As more people arrive in these beautiful areas the open spaces that attracts all becomes more scarce and difficult to access. Over time, the value of these guest ranch properties will become increasingly important to families that want to experience a truly wild outdoor vacation, and to all the wildlife that will benefit from the many acres of natural habitat that are preserved in the process.
The process of master planning a guest ranch is more than one might consider for a residential home. Guests will be looking for an experience both indoors and outdoors. Our experience working with National Parks, eco-tourism, and as professional outdoor recreation guides allows us to create a master plan that encompasses the benefits of a beautiful lodging experiences with the restful and adventurous aspects of the outdoors.
To compliment a beautiful guest ranch experience for vacationers, we provide complete and custom operating models to ensure the financial viability and profitability of your guest ranch. From marketing, guest booking, maintenance, and pricing models to the development of onsite activities and food services, we provide the complete package and experience.
One of our greatest value-adds to any Oxbow guest ranch project is our ability to self perform all site development including land grading, infrastructure, landscape construction, heavy earthmoving, stream and ponds, roads, bridges, walkways, rock walls, plantings and fire mitigation. With this ability, we have tight control over the costs and timing of our projects.
One of the experiences most enjoyed by visitors is their lodging and ranch accommodations. They are leaving the daily routine of their home towns to enter the experience of another time and place. To create extraordinary memories, we work with a team of collaborators to achieve the most realistic capture of the historic American West and Native American Culture. Together, with our select team of architects, interior designers and builders, we find the magical balance of placement between the land features and artisan crafted structures.
Our guest ranches are truly turn key. It's common in the design world to create impressive renderings and presentations of how a project will look when completed. However, we understand from experience that bringing that reality to life and maintaining it over time is an entirely specialized process. For the project installations to become rooted and seasoned takes special care and long-term maintenance. We provide maintenance plans and services to all our guest ranches to ensure they remain profitable and enjoyable for generations.
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3701 Trakker Trail, Unit 1B #180
Bozeman, Montana, 59718
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Bozeman | Durango | Taos