Charmig Rustik Log Cabin nära Yellowstone

Summers in Wyoming and winters in Texas, we have enjoyed our beautiful Wyoming home for 27 years. We are happy to share our knowledge of the area with our guests and welcome them to our "unplugged" Wyoming life lived in the midst of God's glorious creation. We love traveling, the arts, organic gardening, and family time together.

Born in Wisconsin, Doug fell in love with the Wapiti Valley when, as a boy, he visited Yellowstone with his family. The opportunity arose for him to spend several summers during high school and college working at Wapiti Lodge, just down the highway from the ranch. During his first summer there, he wrote home and asked his dad for permission to stay through the winter and care take the property across the highway from the school. As one would expect, his dad was less than enthusiastic and wrote back that Doug needed to come home and finish school and that maybe someday, if he got a good education and good job, he could buy the place. Twenty years later, those words proved prophetic. As we drove though Wapiti on our summer vacation to Yellowstone, a "for sale by owner" sign loomed on the very property which Doug had hoped to manage. The dream was resurrected, and we have called Wyoming home each summer for the past 28 years. In 2011, we purchased the adjoining ranch on which our vacation rental properties are located from the church and a charity which had operated a children's home for a time. We had spent many happy hours on the ranch with church picnics and potlucks, church rides and rodeos, and junior camp, vacation Bible school, and youth activities, and the property held a special place in our hearts. Wapiti Valley Ranch became an extension of Doug's dream and an opportunity to share the wonder of the western experience with friends and visitors from around the country and the world.