Cheyenne River Ranch - A Wyoming Working Cattle Ranch

Don and Betty have welcomed guests to the ranch since the 1970's, usually hosting only one family or party at a time. When you stay with the Pellatz family, their home is your home. Meals are served family style, and nothing compares with country cooking and the aroma of fresh baked bread! Since the Pellatz family members are non-smokers and non-drinkers, they especially welcome guests who share these preferences.

Guest stay in two bunkhouse cabins with private baths and queen and bunks beds, or can stay in the main ranch house, where one bedroom offers a full bed and private bath, and two bedrooms (one with a full bed and the other with twin beds) share a bath.

All rooms are immaculate, with handmade quilts on the beds. Or, there is a sheep wagon for those who really want to experience the West! There is nothing fancy about the Cheyenne River Ranch, but you'll find it very comfortable.

The reason guests return is the warm, sincere western hospitality that the Pellatz family shares.

Together with Chuck and Danette, Don and Betty strive to ensure their guests experience authentic ranch life hands-on.

April is calving and sheep-shearing time. May means lambing, while branding and docking come in June. Other ranch activities include moving sheep to fresh pastures (where hopefully the coyotes will leave them alone,) mending fences, checking water, tending the garden and canning its produce.

Daily chores include feeding the chickens and gathering their eggs. Sometimes there are orphan lambs who need to be fed.

Guests are encouraged to share in daily ranch activities or just sit and relax!

Since most guests want to spend time on horseback, Cheyenne River Ranch offers you the opportunity to enjoy daily rides on the open range. If the land seems empty, look closer. You'll see white-rumped antelope grazing on the hills and deer along the river bed. Coyotes, foxes, jackrabbits, prairie dogs, and bobcats all live here as well, and eagles and hawks sail in the big blue sky.

When asked about their horses, Betty says, "Most of the horses are quarter horse or quarter horse-Appaloosa cross, and are horses that we use on the ranch. We have gentle horses for gentle people, spirited horses for spirited people and for people who don't like to ride, we have horses that don't like to be ridden!"