Silver Spur Cowboy Experience

Imagine yourself riding off the mountain after a day of packing salt, doctoring some calves and moving a herd of cattle from the bottom of Fritz Creek to the head of Divide Creek. Just before you get to camp you hear the sound of a bull elk bulging up the canyon, you smell some great cowboy cooking, and you think of relaxing by the fire and crawling into a clean comfortable bed. Now that’s the romance of being a cowboy, something you will experience every day here where you live as nineteenth century cowboys did.

The ranch is located at the head of Medicine Lodge, Idaho. This makes it the ideal setting for cowboying along the Idaho-Montana border, the Continental Divide, and in beautiful Targhee National Forest. Guests ride with actual cowboys taking care of up to 2000 mother cows and their calves and bison (buffaloes) on the summer range.

You will have the opportunity to stay in an authentic cow camp that has been used by cowboys since the turn of the century. Elevation varies from 7000 to 8000 feet and you are within a few miles of the Continental Divide.

The ranch is headquartered at the Medicine Lodge Cow Camp, where the resident camp cowboy lives with his family. The guests stay in one of the western-style-decorated cabins - one is even a renovated 1900’s schoolhouse. For one week you will ride the range and participate in the everyday activities of a working cowboy!