The Lozier's Box "R" Ranch is a true
Western Wyoming working ranch to which gracious guest ranch
accommodations have been carefully added. Our ranch vacations are
designed for you to enjoy virtually unlimited horseback riding
holidays with liberties and freedoms not normally found on other
western ranches. We are not a typical dude ranch, nor a horseback
riding resort. Our cavvy of 75 horses are working ranch horses. They
are not stable horses, thus nose-to-tail riding is strongly
discouraged. An interest in horses, riding and western ranch life is
paramount to obtaining the utmost enjoyment during your cowboy
vacation in this beautiful and remote mountain area.
The Lozier's Box "R" Ranch is just 60
miles south of Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Teton National Park. It is
surrounded on three sides by the awesome Bridger Wilderness Area. We
are just thirty miles north of the Oregon Trail and our nation's
largest wild horse herd and just 90 miles from Yellowstone Park and
the heart of Wyoming's cattle ranch country, Unlike most dude ranches,
the Lozier's Box "R" Ranch runs 175 to 250 range cattle on over 26,000
acres of deeded and leased lands in the Green River Valley, thus
eliminating the need to feed and confine our livestock.
Basically, the Lozier's Box "R" Ranch
offers six types of western ranch vacations from June through
September. We begin our season by offering our COWBOY CAMPS. Then in
June we have our SPRING CATTLE DRIVES. In July and August our SUMMER
HORSEBACK RIDING VACATIONS which are everyone's favorite. In September we
all enjoy our FALL ROUND-UPS and ASPEN COLORS RIDES.
We host a maximum of 20 adult only ranch
guests for most of the summer but we do offer two very special FAMILY
VACATION WEEKS. Most of our ranch vacations and horseback holidays are
from Sunday to Saturday, with the exception of a few three day short
stays offered during selected weeks and our special extended week. (See Rates and Scheduled Dates).
Upon your arrival, you will be assigned
your own private and personal horse and tack for the week. All of our
vacations are "lightly" regimented and structured around ranch life;
tending ranch chores, raising and working cattle, working new
ranch horses and are designed for you to enjoy this beautiful piece of
heaven with us and our other wonderful ranch guests.
Experienced cowboy wranglers will teach
you all the "Cowboy Tricks" including handling and caring for your
hoss, saddling and bridling, efficient and effective mounting and
dismounting techniques, managing a trot or gallop, riding in the open
range and how you can work with your four legged partner to create a
synchronized, productive team.
This is where you can relax, enjoy and
cherish the peace and tranquility of our remote ranch location.
Imagine yourself here…. no highways, no traffic, no vehicles and no
noise with a good horse and austere silent nights for six days
straight! If a week’s visit is beyond your constraints, check into our
three day visits.
Our goal is for all our guests to
experience a true western working ranch, from cowboy horsemanship to
assisting us and our neighbors with our cattle and horse operation.
You will be feeling like you are part of our cowboy crew upon
departure. We can help make your cowboy dreams come true.
Your host,
Irv Lozier
Irv,
I think this is Barb
and my fifth visit in the last ten or twelve years. We have traveled a
lot recently, rode our motorcycles all over the country and found many
unique places. We have not found anything that compares to the
peaceful, easy going atmosphere here at the Box "R". Both of us really
enjoy the wide variety of privileges we get to share with you and your
crew. We had such a great time and such a wonderful group on the
Spring Cowboy Camp, we'd like a reservation for the same week and same
cabin for next year.
Thanks again,
Larry and Barb Walters, Geneseo,IL
Come step into a pair of cowboy boots,
straddle a good horse and live the dream of being a cowboy or cowgirl
at Lozier’s Box "R" Ranch. True hospitality since 1900 ! Between 1857
and 1898 Irvin M. Lozier and his father, Levi, made many visits to the
Wyoming territory. In 1900, Irvin M. and his wife Lizzie homesteaded
their small ranch in a beautiful and remote mountain valley at the
foot of the Wind River Mountains, where the ranch still stands today.
Here they started a ranching and hunting business. During that time,
Irvin met, guided for, and became good friends with the
world renowned wildlife painter and German
artist, Carl Rungius. Some of his works still hangs in the ranch house
today for you to enjoy. The Lozier's Box "R" Ranch has operated under
the same ownership for three generations. Since 1972, Irv Lozier has
operated the ranch, as his parents Walt and Nancy did, with true
respect and love for the land, Wyoming’s wildlife and his family’s
heritage.
There are a limited number of true working
cattle / horse guest ranches where you can gain an education, acquire
the confidence and enlightenment of your horseback riding experiences
while adding to the enjoyment of vacationing in Wyoming’s true western
open range cattle country.
We are very excited about the possibility of sharing
many pleasurable
memories and new friendships with you here in Wyoming.