A true master planned ranch property with generations of family maintaining consistency of forestry, water management and livestock within the homesteaded 700 acres that is The Ruland Bear Lodge Ranch. The Ruland Ranch consists of 700 acres MOL that combines cattle ranching, equine, recreation, and premier hunting in the rural Crook County Wyoming. The perfect setting for the avid hunter or hunting club, even guest ranch with the benefits of a working cattle ranch which provides for maintaining the low Wyoming taxes. The ultimate ranch scape, a combination of multiple homesteads, grazing, naturally distributed water and stands of managed timber surrounded by over 85,000 acres of USFS and western scape Black Hills of Wyoming. This extraordinary 700 acres MOL has a long stretch of Little Beaver Creek, a historic barn and vintage midcentury home, with state highway traversing the property. Highway 24 has some of the lowest traffic counts in the state and is a local commute route for the Thursday town turns, logging trucks and off the beaten path tourist traveller. The property is well timbered with Ponderosa Pines, Oak and Aspen with some rim rock which provide breathtaking vistas of The Ranch and the surrounding Bear Lodge and Black Hills.

North Ranch 440 acres MOL with Timber 276 acres , Tillable 164 acres. Water in 2 surface reservoirs, and at the Homestead Spring with numerous undeveloped springs.

South Ranch 260 acres MOL with Timber 100 acres, Tillable 160 acres. Water in 1.25 miles of Little Beaver Creek, Marys Pond, a quarter acre Reservoir, a moderately well developed spring serving, current Homestead with multiple undeveloped springs.

Interior access is via numerous strategically placed gates, access roads, interior developed two tracks and logging roads.

The grazing on the Ruland Ranch has been running, and more than adequately supports even in the droughty years, 75 cow/calf pairs on The Ranch June 10 thru October 15. They are rotated throughout three pastures over the course of the season, ending with turning them into the north side end of July to finish out the season. The Ranch is cross fenced, maintained by the Lessee, as well as salt and supplements. There is a crossing culvert underneath highway 24.