Hoback River Homestead Wyoming Ranch
The same family has owned Hoback River Homestead since staking the original claim in 1888, and in 138 years, they've never once put it on the market. The ranch spans 2,062 acres in Bondurant, Wyoming, accounting for roughly a fifth of all private land in the Bondurant Valley. Two miles of frontage run along both sides of the Hoback River, a native cutthroat trout fishery that flows through the property in a wide, braided channel. Bridger-Teton National Forest borders the ranch for six miles across three sides, opening onto millions of acres of public wilderness beyond the fence line. Roughly 700 of the acres are irrigated hay ground, still cut and grazed as part of an active operation that includes horses and leased cattle. The improvements are modest by comparison: a 3,414-square-foot house built in 1982, along with the original homestead structures and working implement sheds, nothing built to compete with the land itself. It carries no conservation easement, leaving the next owner free to decide what the property becomes. Elk migrate through the valley every season, and grizzly bears and wolves regularly move across the land alongside sage-grouse and sandhill cranes. It's a ranch defined less by what's been built on it than by how little has changed.
