Brush Creek Ranch: Wyoming's Premier Private Resort Getaway

Green Mountain at Brush Creek Ranch gives guests spectacular views of the great Wyoming wilderness. Photo Credit: Brush Creek Ranch

If you are looking for a premier ski destination with luxury services, lodging, amenities, and plenty of activities, you should check out Brush Creek Ranch in Wyoming. This skier’s dream only allows 16 people on the mountain at a time and also caters to the individual’s needs by having private chefs, a creamery, a distillery, private tour guides, and much more.

Brush Creek Ranch is located just 17 miles from the historic town of Saratoga in south-central Wyoming and is most easily reached by private air into Saratoga Jet Center. Scenic views are enjoyed along the I-80 and WY Hwy 130, approximately one hour from the Laramie Regional Airport or three and a half hours from Denver International Airport. Wyoming’s award-winning Brush Creek Ranch is home to its very own private ski resort, Green Mountain, and a small-batch craft Brush Creek Distillery, making it a one-stop shop for snow and spirit lovers.

Nestled within Medicine Bow National Forest, Green Mountain, the Ranch’s private 600-acre ski mountain allows only 16 guests at once, complete with gear rental, expert guides, and a gourmet lunch. The mountain features 1,200 vertical feet of ski trails only accessible by a heated Snowcat.

Upon returning from the mountain, guests can head to the Distillery, which finds its home at the Farm at Brush Creek, the Ranch’s epicurean hub. Brush Creek Distillery utilizes natural resources found across the land to handcraft innovative spirits such as Brush Creek Gin, Brush Creek Vodka, Brush Creek Straight Bourbon, and Brush Creek Rye. Guests can participate in a special Distillery Tour, Tasting, & Barrel Thieving experience, showcasing the distilling process and the historical background of Brush Creek spirits, complete with a tasting of the full line of spirits and whiskey thieving straight from the barrel.

The Ranch also hosts daily après-ski in the onsite Saloon from 4:00-6:00 p.m. Guests can gather around the crackling fireplace and enjoy festive cocktails like Irish Coffee, Hot Toddy, Peppermint Patty, and Wyoming’s Winter Old Fashioned and Après bites like Bavarian Pretzels, Mini Charcuterie Platter, Winter Squash Bisque & Brioche Grilled Cheese, and Smoked Trout Dip with Kennebec Chips.

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The Summit at Green Mountain: Photo Credit: Brush Creek Ranch

Quick Stats:

30,000 acres of private Wyoming wilderness
7,600 feet of elevation change
20 miles of north plate private water access
100,000 acres of national forest access
600 acres of private downhill skiing
over 100 ranch adventures

Brush Creek Ranch

If you want to find a unique ski destination with a true Western feel, then Brush Creek Ranch is the place for you. Time seems to stand still at Brush Creek Ranch, which has a collection of all-inclusive guest ranches in Saratoga, Wyoming. Guests can access over 30,000 secluded acres and enjoy unbridled luxury at its award-winning ranch destination. Vacationing at Brush Creek Ranch grants you access to a vast array of exclusive special events. The ranch offers wine weekends with the makers themselves, educational culinary retreats, gourmet guest chef events, or enlightening weekends of wellness and adventure.

Green Mountain

Crowds at ski resorts always take away from the overall experience. Long lift lines, crowded slopes, and traffic are all things that skiers try to stay away from. Green Mountain is the complete opposite of that. It has 1,200 vertical feet of ski trails only accessible by your very own heated snowcat. The mountain first opened up in April of 2018 and operates with three-heated snowcats, personal guide tours, and ski patrol.

Just a short, scenic drive from the iconic gates of Brush Creek Ranch lies a private 600-acre ski mountain where up to 16 guests at a time can enjoy incredible downhill skiing and snowboarding (December through mid-April, weather permitting). If you’re interested in even more exclusivity or a once-in-a-lifetime experience, guests have the option of renting the mountain for the day for only themselves and an intimate group of 16.

It is an experience that few skiers ever get a chance to do, and some have never heard of it before. Brush Creek Ranch offers a truly ultra-private resort that you do not have to be a member of to enjoy. Matt Anderson, the Senior Director of Operations & Recreation at Brush Creek Ranch, stated that guests are amazed at what the ranch offers. “How did I not know about this place until now?” Anderson asked himself in an interview with SnowBrains regarding guests’ reactions to their first trip to the ranch.

Snowcat Skiing and Snowboarding

Green Mountain has 1,200 vertical feet of ski trails only accessible by your very own heated snowcat. Photo Credit: Brush Creek Ranch

Nestled within the sprawling borders of Medicine Bow National Forest, Green Mountain beckons to thrill-seekers and devotees of snow sports on your own private ski mountain. A day’s expedition kicks off early in the morning when you journey to the base of the mountain via tracked rangers to begin your one-of-a-kind skiing experience. Guests’ first destination, Rendezvous Yurt, is where you’ll meet the ranch’s expert guides and pick up gear set aside just for you, including boots kept warm by a wood-burning stove. Head out to conquer fresh powder on nine groomed runs and nine glade trails accessed only by a heated snowcat, perfecting every run with each pass. With no lifts or lines, this exclusive ski mountain is truly your own.

Included in Your Experience:

Head-to-toe state-of-the art Rossignol gear (pants, jackets, gloves, helmets, goggles, boots, skis, or snowboards)
Expert guides
Heated snowcats take you to the top of each run, which are groomed to perfection
Gourmet catered lunch at Pat’s Porch with spectacular views

The Farm at Brush Creek

The Farm is set in a beautiful sage field and offers panoramic views of the mountainous Wyoming countryside. Photo Credit: Brush Creek Ranch

An unforgettable, fully immersive culinary adventure starts and ends with The Farm at Brush Creek, an integral component of Brush Creek Ranch. Learn new skills alongside the experts at The Farm’s suite of ranch-sourced, seed-to-table experiences, which include our own luxury restaurant, greenhouse, distillery, creamery, bakery, spirit vault, 94-yard wine cellar, and unique event spaces for up to 250 people.

The dude ranch accommodations combine legacy, tradition, and heritage with modern extravagance. The original homestead architecture and design inspired the present construction of our private log cabins and lodge rooms. Authentic, western exteriors are thoughtfully welcomed with modern amenities and lavish accents to ensure your ultimate comfort. The ranch’s accommodations resemble the “Old West” while still maintaining and providing the ultimate luxury.

Full-Day Farm Experience

Guests can take private culinary classes on a variety of topics at the Farm. Photo Credit: Bush Creek Ranch

Guests can go behind the scenes of each location at The Farm to learn about the inner workings of a sustainable cattle ranch. This fully immersive day includes practical bakery, greenhouse, and distillery lessons. Experience a hands-on cooking class with one of our award-winning chefs, and enjoy the fruit of your labor during a gourmet private lunch. End with an exclusive wine tasting and distillery tour.

Cheyenne Club

Refined meals to suit every taste. The Farm’s fine-dining restaurant, Cheyenne Club, combines rustic elegance with modern aesthetics to create one of the most sophisticated dining atmospheres in the West, perhaps the world. Guests can join the ranch’s expert chefs in the kitchen for hands-on cooking classes. They get firsthand culinary expertise on how to craft a true seed-to-table dining experience. Classes in pasta-making, techniques to introduce healthy recipes into your weekly routine, or techniques for grilling meats and veggies with a beer in hand are all things offered at the ranch.

Wine Cellar

The ranch also has its own expert sommeliers in its award-winning Wine Cellar, which holds over 30,000 bottles for a unique educational experience. The Head Sommelier will teach guests about the art of deductive tasting, blending, varietal wines, regions, and wine-making. Guests will sample a minimum of four wines.

Creamery

The ranch even has its own creamery, which is Wyoming’s only Grade-A Goat Dairy. Learn about the breeding and raising of goats, the farmstead creamery process to craft award-winning cheeses using 100% milk from our own animals, and how we age cheese gracefully.

Distillery

Guests can take a tour of the award-winning Brush Creek Distillery and learn about the process and history of distillation. Taste the bourbon, rye, vodka, and gin to experience what makes our Wyoming spirits so unique. Receive a sneak peek of the distillery’s selection of spirits in their various stages of life right out of the barrels. Pass through a secret entrance to our exclusively refined tasting room, where a rich assortment of exceptionally rare, small-batch whiskeys and bourbons line the walls for your enjoyment. Taste custom spirit flights from all around the world. The ranch’s spirits collection will surely excite even the most seasoned traveler.

The Spirit Vault

The Farm Spirit Vault. Photo Credit: Brush Creek Ranch

The Spirt Vault’s whiskey menu showcases over 100 selections to choose from, most of which are kept behind lock and key. A rich assortment of exceptionally rare, small-batch whiskeys and bourbons line our walls for your enjoyment. Guests can taste custom spirit flights from all around the world. The Spirt Vault’s prized collection of spirits is sure to excite even the most seasoned traveler.

Some of the spirits guests can enjoy at the Spirt Vault include:

The Macallan Exceptional Single Cask – 2018/ASB-1683/13 (1 of 336 Bottles) Distilled in 1950
The Macallan 1950 52-Year-Old Cask No. 598
Glenfiddich 50-Year-Old Rare Collection
Dalmore Constellation Collection 1969 and 1973
Dalmore 45 Year
1979 Port Ellen 32-Year-Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky (12th Release)
Pappy Van Winkle’s Family Reserve 23-Year Straight Bourbon Whiskey
Remy Martin Louis XIII

Bakery

Guests have the opportunity to work with an expert pastry chef to create unforgettable pastries and baked goods. In the classes, guests learn what it takes to supply the Brush Creek Luxury Ranch Collection with fresh baked goods year-round. Baking class topics include chocolate, pastry, and bread.

Greenhouse

The ranch has a greenhouse that provides many ingredients for its culinary experiences. The ranch is passionate about educating its guests, enhancing their experience, and seeing their enjoyment as they sample produce straight from the vine in our Greenhouse. Tour the 20,000-square-foot facility and learn the basics of planting, germination, cultivation, and harvesting and how it uses these methods to care for and grow over 100,000 pounds of produce annually.

American Wagyu Beef

The Farm offers 100% Wagyu Beef to its guests. Photo Credit: Brush Creek Ranch

The ranch raises its own cattle, reflecting our centuries-long heritage as a working cattle ranch. It offers 100% American Wagyu, which is created by cross-breeding purebred Wagyu cattle from distinguished Japanese bloodlines with high-quality continental breeds. Brush Creek’s American Wagyu is served across the Brush Creek Luxury Ranch Collection and is known for its intense marbling and high percentage of unsaturated fat, which gives this delicacy a melt-in-your-mouth buttery texture, subtle sweetness, and lasting finish. The authentic ranching team brings together a harmonious balance of elegance and the authenticity of a working cattle ranch. The ranch oversees two cattle herds: 200 head of Wagyu cattle for its culinary program and 150 head of Corriente cattle for drives or arena games.

The Saddle Barn

The Saddle Barn is set in a beautiful sage field and offers panoramic views of the mountainous Wyoming countryside. This picturesque 250-person event space is built with reclaimed barn wood and reflects the many timeless barns dotting the Western landscape. A truly unmatched destination in the heart of the American West, the Saddle Barn is equipped to host any wedding, corporate meeting, general session, or incentive trip for up to 250 guests

With all the luxuries, amenities, services, and activities that Brush Creek Ranch has to offer, it is a bucket-list-destination spot for skiers looking for the ultimate experience. Having all these features and a mountain to yourself comes with a price tag. It costs $675 a day to go skiing at Green Mountain alone. It costs $8,500 for the entire mountain which caters exclusively to up to 18 people. If you have the resources and want the elevated feeling of being at your own private ski resort, then Brush Creek Ranch is the place to check out.

For more information, visit Brush Creek Ranch’s website.