The HF Bar Ranch is located in Johnson County, Wyoming about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Buffalo, Wyoming  in the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains in Saddlestring.  The ranch is a working cattle ranch comprising about 36 buildings. built between 1898 and 1921. The ranch is associated with Wyoming state senator and U.S. Congressman Frank O. Horton, who purchased it in 1911 with financial help from his investment banker brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Warren and Demia Gorrell. The Gorrells and their children spent summers in Wyoming, while the Hortons stayed year-round.

This working guest ranch includes a number of guest cabins built by the original owners of the HF Bar Ranch — the Hortons, Gorrells and their friends, who used the property as a guest ranch and a working ranch. Cabins are arranged along the banks of Rock Creek with a wonderful Main House that was the home for the Hortons for over 60 years and a Club House.   Each building is totally unique and the cabins are even more so.  Ranch cabins are scattered through the main ranch area — with many of the guest cabins ‘hanging’ over the creek for stunning views or Rock Creek bubbling by the decks.  No air conditioning required.  As well, there are dormitories for the wranglers. Most of these historic cabins are of log or rustic frame design.

The most significant building is the Club House (1924), of log construction with a prominent front porch. Its hipped roof is supported by pine trunks and it features stone fireplaces.  The Ranch Office Cabin built between 1911 and 1920 is also the Saddlestring post office. Two houses for Frank Horton and his son Jack are of stucco. Three cabins, known as the Salt Creek Cabins, were moved to the ranch from the Salt Creek Oil Field in the 1930s and were used to house wranglers.

The HF Bar Ranch was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Our cabins were built during the historic “heyday” of dude ranching and you will find they are still genuine to that period. The rustic, comfortable nature of each cabin satisfies something that you have not found at other places, of that, we are quite sure.

With no phones and no TV’s in the cabins, it is the perfect setting for your family and friends to be on vacation with each other and to meet and interact with the other guests if you so choose. In fact, the atmosphere on the H F Bar Ranch is so thick with tradition and history, it cannot be replicated anywhere else. It is a uniquely different vacation.

When you arrive you will see that this view of Meadowlark and Poster, two cabins on the west side of the grounds, have changed very little in 90 years. Our guests are lodged in comfortable cabins with living rooms, open fireplaces, private baths and outdoor porches. The pine floors are covered with colorful Persian rugs which feel so good on bare feet. Our cabins boast plush comfortable quilted beds made of local pine logs. The bathrooms are roomy with plenty of fluffy towels and hot water! Electric kettles, with all of the fixings for great coffee, teas and cocoa, are available in each cabin as well as glasses, wine openers and blocks of ice that are delivered daily by a horse and wagon to an old-fashioned ice box on each porch.

Any special requests such as cribs, mini-fridges or microwaves can be arranged for in advance with the Ranch Office staff. Likewise, we can stock your icebox with drinks and snacks prior to your arrival.  Just email or call and we’ll have everything waiting for you. We are in the middle of a major renovation of many of the cabins — upgrading bathrooms, recovering furniture, changing the lighting and, in general, doing what Margi calls her “one quarter century overhaul”!  So, old timers look forward to those new changes and all of your new guests just get the bonus of a spiffed up Ranch!

The staff of the Ranch Office does its very best to meet all guest requests with regard to “favorite” cabins and “favorite” horses. Since our cabins vary in size and we do not have a set arrival and departure day, we must fill our spaces according to need first and special preference second. The same is true of the horse that you may wish to ride who may be in use at the time of your arrival. Our Corral makes a special effort to make sure that requested horses are available as soon as they are rested and ready to hit the trail again. We ask that you remain flexible and rely on us to make your stay pleasant and comfortable. That is our greatest wish for you. Relax, take naps, read a book or two, play with your kids, take a fishing lesson, try out the Challenge Course and have a great time! Life on the HF Bar is what you make it — and it can be sublime! You can be active and stay fit or you can let your guard down and just chill. There are no pressures the toughest thing you have to think about all day is decide what YOU do want to do…and what wine to have at dinner!

And when it’s time to call it day, we have the best bed warmers on all of our beds.  There is nothing like that feeling of getting into a cozy bed to ease your tired muscles and warm your spirit!

Each Rustic & Cozy Cabin Provides:

• A mountain view or is located at creek side.
• A roomy outdoor porch.
• A living room, most with burning fireplaces.
• An electric kettle with our signature HF Bar ground blend of fair trade coffee to be prepared in a French press pot. There is a fine selection of teas and hot cocoa for your morning and afternoon and evening pleasure.
• An old-fashioned icebox that a horse-drawn wagon delivers ice to each day.
• Comfortable King and Twin Beds made of locally grown pine logs.
• One to three full bathrooms.
• Your bed is turned down each night and cozy electric bed warmers assure you a good night’s sleep.

 A Fun Look at the Grounds of the HF Bar Ranch…