A Message of Thanks and Farewell from the Stranahan Family
When we welcomed our first guests to The Home Ranch in a frigid December of 1980, our goal was to keep them warm, feed them well and make them welcome in the new venture we'd begun in this remote and snowy valley of Northwest Colorado. The activities that first winter included Nordic Skiing, followed closely by eating, and then sleeping. It was a modest formula for success. But the skiing was sublime, the food was delicious and the sleeping came easy. Over the ensuing 40 years we would welcome many new friends to The Home Ranch -- and many of you would become old friends too -- in what might just be one of the happiest accidents of hospitality that a family could have ever lucked into. Over that time the simple concept of guest ranching has gone through many changes, but the core values that Steve and Ann [...]