A true four-season private National Park: walk-out access to Yellowstone Wildlife, elk, deer, antelope, Greater Sage Grouse, anything you have seen in Yellowstone are on this ranch. Aspen groves, creek bottoms, and panoramic ridge hikes. Cast to classic undercut banks, ride miles of two-track and timber edge, snowshoe or sled in winter, and glass migrating herds at first light. Owners enjoy priority for on-ranch activities and simple, low-key amenities (trailheads, wayfinding, day-use barn/gear storage).

Region & Climate

Set within thegreater Yellowstone ecosystemof western Wyoming, the ranch enjoyslow-humidity summers, cool nights, bright fall colors, andsnow-reliable winters. Expect 4 distinct seasons, abundant sunshine, and clean mountain air. Elevation yields a shorter growing season, excellent wildlife habitat, and that crisp, high-country feel buyers seek for year-round adventure.

History

The surrounding country is rooted in working-ranch heritagehay meadows, cattle, and historic stock trails that double today as wildlife corridors. Maki Creek Ranch follows alight-touch, conservation-forwardapproach: limited homesites, dark-sky lighting, wildlife-friendly practices, and common-sense covenants that keep the landscape open, functional, and ranch-true for generations.

Location

Old trails, living waters.Long before survey lines, the upper Green River country was a seasonal homeland and travel corridor for theEastern Shoshone(with close ties to Bannock bands from the Snake River/Fort Hall area). Their name for the Green RiverSeeds-kee-dee Agie(Prairie Chicken River)still echoes in place-names and interpretive signs across Sublette County. The Shoshone and allied groups hunted these sage valleys and high parks, moving with bison, elk, and salmon-berry seasons; in the 1860s they entered treaties that later established theWind River Reservationto the east.

Trails you can still walk.On the forest just above the ranch, theOld Indian Trail Maki Creek Crossingis documented in Forest Service project recordsone of many quiet reminders that these drainages were Indigenous routes long before they were blazed by stockmen or mapped by engineers.US Forest Service

Mountain men & the Green River Rendezvous.In the 1820s1840s, this valley sat at the beating heart of the Rocky Mountain fur trade.Jedediah Smith,William Sublette(namesake of Sublette County),David Jackson, and others wintered, trapped, and traded along the Green and its tributaries, crossingSouth Passand convening the famousGreen River Rendezvousnear present-day Daniel/Pinedalesix of the sixteen Rocky Mountain Rendezvous happened right here in the Upper Green. Today, the Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale and annual Rendezvous Days keep that story alive.

From traplines to haylines.As beaver hats faded, cattle and hay took over. The open valleys and reliable creeks around Maki Creek became classicworking-ranchcountrymeadows in the bottoms, summer range on the benches, timber for posts and stove-wood up high. That working landscapestock, hay, and wildlife moving through the same corridorsstill defines the feel of the place.