The Horse Prairie Ranch is the epitome of the West, the classic Montana ranch -- expansive, private, mountainous, and full of horses, cattle, wildlife, and cowboy and Indian history. This is one of Montana’s historic reputation ranches, acclaimed by USA Today as one of the "10 Best Places to be a Cowboy". It is over 30,000 acres of combined deeded and leased lands that lie in one private block in a mountain valley surrounded by other large cattle ranches, forested mountains, and thousands and thousands of acres of federal lands. Aspen-lined streams course through the ranch for miles, from the adjoining evergreen forest through the ranch’s grass, sage, and irrigated hay lands. Horses, cattle, elk, deer, and antelope dot the ranch. The Big Sky stretches for 30 miles to the tops of surrounding mountain ranges and night reveals only a handful of neighboring lights under a canopy of brilliant stars. Privacy is ensured, yet the cow town center of southwest Montana is within 40 minutes. The Facts: ~ Just 35 miles (40 minutes) southwest of Dillon ~ Two commercial airports each approximately one hour and forty-five minutes away ~ Total ranch land of 30,145± acres - 7,707± acres deeded including 1,200± acres of flood and sub-irrigated hay and pasture with an additional 22,438± adjoining leased acres on USFS, BLM, and State land ~ 600 cow-calf operation (plus replacement heifers, bulls, and horses) ~ Building improvements include four owner’s homes, a lodge, two cabins, manager’s and hired man’s home, two horse barns, shops, equipment storage sheds, calving barns, cattle scale, corrals, and gates ~ Two-and-a-half-acre trout stocked lake and spawning creek ~ Painter Creek and Browns Creek each run through the ranch for approximately four miles ~ Ranch includes 68 water rights, with irrigation water rights dating to 1865 ~ Elk, antelope, mule and whitetail deer, moose, and sage grouse ~ Gravel airplane landing strip