This All-inclusive U.S. Resort Has Its Personal Personal Ski Space within the Winter — With 600 Acres of Untouched Snow and No Crowds

For 2 years, The Lodge & Spa at Brush Creek Ranch in Saratoga, Wyoming, has dominated Journey + Leisure’s World’s Finest Awards, which showcases the favourite locations of our well-traveled readers. In 2023, Brush Creek Ranch was acknowledged as the very best resort in Wyoming, and in 2024, it topped the checklist once more, beating out properties like Amangani and The Cloudveil in Jackson.

The Lodge & Spa at Brush Creek Ranch is a working cattle ranch with 30,000 secluded acres of wide-open area, grazing horses, and personal fishing. If you happen to’re on the lookout for a luxurious dude ranch, that is it. And whereas the summers at Brush Creek Ranch are lovely, winter can be particular — particularly in case you ski or snowboard.

The ranch has its personal non-public ski space with 600 acres of untouched snow. Solely 16 visitors at Brush Creek can play on the ranch’s non-public Inexperienced Mountain ski hill at a time, providing skiers and boarders loads of area to discover the depths of Wyoming’s iconic snowfall.

Inexperienced Mountain is positioned in Wyoming’s Medication Bow Nationwide Forest, a brief drive from the doorway of Brush Creek Ranch. To get there, you’ll take a tracked ranger to the bottom of Inexperienced Mountain the place you’ll meet your information on the Rendezvous Yurt. Contained in the yurt, your boots will likely be warmed by a wood-burning range when you get suited up in head-to-toe Rossignol gear, together with outerwear, equipment, and your skis or snowboard. 

From there, you’ll take a heated snowcat to the highest of the mountain to benefit from the view earlier than dipping into one in every of Inexperienced Mountain’s 12 groomed runs or six graded trails together with your information. Later within the day, you’ll be handled to a gourmand catered lunch with spectacular views. The non-public expertise is void of lifts or traces, and also you and your 15 ski companions may have a whopping 1,200 vertical toes of terrain all to yourselves.

Inexperienced Mountain at Brush Creek Ranch is often open and out there from December to mid-April, snow and climate allowing.

Along with snowboarding at your individual non-public ski space, winter at Brush Creek introduces visitors to actions like snowmobiling, ice fishing, and winter horseback driving. There may be additionally a highly-rated spa with a sauna and steam room, which is the right option to heat up after a time out within the snow.

Brush Creek Ranch additionally has a powerful emphasis on meals — and is an all-inclusive. The Farm is a totally functioning meals compound with its personal creamery, bakery, and greenhouse. It additionally has a distillery with a 94-yard wine cellar.

The Lodge & Spa at Brush Creek Ranch is a three-hour drive from the Casper/Natrona County Worldwide Airport (CPR) in Casper, Wyoming, and three.5 hours from Denver Worldwide Airport (DIA).