Bring your horses, pets, your family and friends and experience authentic western hospitality in a town too tough to die, Hot Springs, Montana. With 600 residents, you won't take long making new friends. We are far away from crowds, yet close enough to the good things that life has to offer; making Hot Springs where you really want to be.   Whether you are a cowboy or cowgirl, or want to be a cowboy or cowgirl, Hot Springs is gentle enough for you to be whatever you desire to become.  

Buffalo Range Ranch has been used as a fertile cattle pasture, but there is an aging home on the property and some well worn old-timer vehicles waiting for some new blood to enjoy them. The scenery is standard for Montana, sagebrush meeting riverbeds with mountains staggering skywards all around. Plan on pretty special evenings as the sun sets over Baldy Mountain in the west (almost a mile higher than you are). The views from the upper eastern portion of the ranch will have even an old hand stop to admire that beauty that God has wrought.

The Little Bitterroot Valley is home to many, including cattle ranches, buffalo ranches and hay farmers. If "home on the range" warms your heart then this valley will thrill you to the bone.  

Some cool things to enjoy nearby:

•  National Bison Range - founded in 1908 by Congress as a wildlife preserve, it is one of the oldest in the nation.   It has two quite scenic drives open all year, along with a neat visitor's center.   Lot's of educational opportunities happen here as the Refuge is an Environmental Education site.   Lewis & Clark said "...from an eminence I had a view of a greater number of [buffaow] than I had ever seen at one time. I must have seen 20,000 of those animals feeding on the plain."   The buffalo herd numbers in the hundreds now, but lots of other wild game enjoy this federal refuge.

•  Flathead Lake - The largest natural freshwater lake west of the Mississippi, 188 square miles of pure enjoyment loaded with trophy size trout, yellow perch, and whitefish Flathead Lake is ready and waiting for all your boating fun!

•  Clark Fork River - This world renowned fishermans paradise is only half an hour from Hot Springs, but it is a full day of relaxation. This wide beautiful river has lots of wildlife to view, fish to catch and mountains to enjoy.

•  Hot Springs Mineral Bath - Get rejuvenated, fix those aches and pains, become beautiful again... These and many more claims are made by those that revel in the pure joy of relaxing in the soothing waters at the Symes Hot Springs Hotel mineral bath waters. You can also check out the Wild Horse Hot Springs!

•  Baldy Mountain -  Enjoy breathtaking views 7,464 feet above sea-level. Many visitors bring a rock to add to the unique man made rock formation pictured here.This trek is well worth the exercise.

•  Hiking - imagine 2 million acres of federally protected wilderness area of untrammeled forest, mountains and rivers to welcome you: Bob Marshall (the flagship of the nation's wilderness fleet), Great Bear, Cabinet Mountains, Rattlesnake, Selway-Bitterroot, Welcome Creek, Mission Mountains, Jewel Basin and more.