Gallery

The land, as it is.

A first look at Sweetwater Ranch — the meadow, the ranges, the light at the end of the day, and the antiques that make a wilderness read as a fine home. Further photography of the buildings, and aerial footage of the eighty acres, is being made this season.

A private helicopter at rest on the meadow at Sweetwater Ranch, Gold Creek, Montana, with forested mountains beyond
Land on your own mountaintop
A fiery red and orange sunset over layered blue mountain ranges at Sweetwater Ranch, Montana
When the ranges catch fire
Forested mountain ridges receding to the horizon, seen from the Sweetwater Ranch mountaintop in Gold Creek, Montana
Blue ridges to the horizon
Snow-capped Montana peaks rising beyond forested ridges, seen from the Sweetwater Ranch mountaintop above Gold Creek
Snow on the peaks, into summer
Purple wildflowers blooming in a green mountain meadow at Sweetwater Ranch, with distant Montana peaks
Spring lights the meadow for miles
Sunbeams breaking through clouds at dusk over the valley below Sweetwater Ranch, Montana
The day signs off in gold
Black Angus cattle and a calf on the ranch road below Sweetwater Ranch, with Montana hills beyond
Real Montana, right outside the gate
A cowboy hat and holstered revolver hanging by a cabin window framing the meadow at Sweetwater Ranch
The West, hung by the door
An ornately carved century-old antique sideboard with mirror inside the cabin at Sweetwater Ranch
A hundred years of story, kept
A full rainbow arcing over mist and forested mountains at Sweetwater Ranch, Gold Creek, Montana
After the storm, the whole valley
A woman and a golden retriever walking up a high meadow toward forested mountains at Sweetwater Ranch in evening light
The kind of evening that resets a year

The photographs only begin to tell it. The rest is best seen in person.