The Lazy J River Ranch

The Lazy J River Ranch with 200 acres surrounded by large ranches, a mile of Jefferson River, and sweeping views of 5 mountain ranges will allure the outdoor enthusiast who seeks adventure, peace and tranquility.

As one of Montana’s finest recreational ranches set in the charming, western town of Three Forks, home to 4 blue ribbon rivers, Copper City Biking, Headwaters State Park, the Lazy J River Ranch will undoubtedly leave an indelible mark.

Your Modern Scandinavian complex was deliberately designed to connect your soul to nature with seamless indoor and outdoor spaces, trails through rich riparian and wooded areas teeming with upland birds, big game, fox, beaver and private river access to enjoy its boundless beauty.

Whether you’re an equestrian, angler, hunter or just want respite from the world, The Lazy J Ranch will certainly enchant.

Not many places remain where you can live off the land, fish from your shores or saddle up and ride into town for a burger/beer.

$12,750,000 - 205 Acres - Riverfront - Main House - Guest House - Workshop - Barn - Arena - Corrals - Stables - Storage - Well House - Gazebo

No Zoning. No Covenants. Just Freedom. Minutes to Bozeman and our international Airport.

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FAVORITE ACTIVITIES FROM THE SELLER

We ride horses in the round pen, arena, on the property, in the river, and all over neighboring ranches.

We often push and cut cattle with the neighbors who are all fantastic horsemen.

We canoe, kayak, float, swim and fish the river all the time.

We love to put the canoe in upriver and paddle right back to the house.

We swim over 60 times per summer in our “swimming hole” which is a35-40ft deep spot on the downriver side of our biggest island. The island is sandy.

We love to go for walks or runs either throughout the property or along the gravel roads with the dogs, watching wildlife and listening to the birds.

We sit on the patio all the time and watch the deer, pheasants, partridge, and various other critters come into the food plot below the house.

We plant a huge garden each spring and tend it throughout the summer and harvest it from August to October.

We have fun canning and pickling as well as eating fresh produce. We get bumper crops of sweet corn and potatoes.

We have a walk-in cooler in the barn that we can control remotely to the exact degree to help store things.

We hunt whitetails on the property and could hunt pheasants, partridge, wild turkey, ducks and geese.

We love to ride the ATVs across the bridge into Willow Creek to eat ribs on summer evenings and look at the deer on the way home.

Willow Creek and Three Forks are still places where we can ride our horses into and through town and tie them up to the rail at places like the Frontier Bar, where the burgers are legendary.

We love to take drives along the Jefferson and eat at the Lahood Steakhouse on the banks of the river near Cardwell.

We drive to Whitehall to take in a movie at the old school movie theater.

We have fun taking the horses up to the Tobacco Root Mountains and riding trails to high mountain lakes.

The Tobacco Roots also have all the hiking, hunting, camping, and various mountain fun you can do.

We love eating at the Sacajawea Hotel and all the little “hole in the wall” mom and pop places in Three Forks. Great food and happy service.

The summer rodeos are exciting fun, especially the Three Forks Rodeo.

We love the Ennis Rodeo as well. During the rodeo, Three Forks has street dances and food vendors and bands all along main street. The street gets blocked off and it is some of the most fun we have had in summer.

We don’t mountain bike much anymore, but if we did, the Lewis and Clark Caverns single track or the trails at Copper City are fantastic!

We do love to ride the cruiser bikes up and down the roads and by the river.

We have had some really fun and memorable parties on the property!

We hire a food truck and they hook up to the RV site next to the shop.

We open the shop doors, turn the music on, play volleyball, ping pong, shuffleboard and have a great time.

We have a ton of dry hickory wood. It’s fun to cook steaks over the woodfire at the firepit and finish the night off with s’mores.

So much of what we do is about interacting with wildlife and the quiet of the ranch.

We have few, but fantastic neighbors who give us our cattle fix.

Everything else we do seems to revolve around nature in all seasons, especially the animals.

We love the baby season in spring when the cow moose bring their babies through and I particularly love to see the clutches of baby pheasants, wild turkey, and partridge as they learn to fly.

The greatest part of all of this is that we do it with so much privacy.

We don’t have to share the river with very many people and we consider the mountains desolate as compared to the time we spent directly in the Bozeman valley.

When we want Bozeman, we just hop on the highway and in 30 minutes we get it all... But then we get to come home back here!

This place is indescribably special and really impossible to understand until you live it....

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IMPROVEMENTS AND CONSTRUCTION DETAILS FROM THE SELLER

LAND:
• Removed 6 miles of old fence and wire and old metal from the interior and partial perimeter of the land
• Installed over 3 miles of new corral board fencing, 1200 railroad tie fence posts, 70,000 board feet of fir.
• Instituted aggressive weed control program, in year 3 with fantastic results
• Removed tons of dead wood and debris, specifically from food plot
• Planted alfalfa and corn
• Leveled and graded the area where buildings and horse facilities lay
• Built a 16ft wide road of compacted road mix bordered by rail road ties
• Over 200 Semi loads of road mix for roads and parking areas
• Restored all pastures after being grazed by cattle, improving habitat and cover for all birds and large game

LANDSCAPE:
• Planted over 100 seedless Cottonwood trees, 40 Aspen, 3 semi trailer loads of Spruce, all individually irrigated
• 20,000 sf of sod
• Over 100 plantings
• Seeded all the disturbed areas with native pasture grasses
• Irrigation system has over 28 zones but is easily blown out in the fall from one location in the well house

WATER:
• Drilled well that produces an amazing amount of water
• 7 hydrants on the property and 5 auto horse waterers
• All water lines to hydrants and houses buried over 7 ft deep, in GPS marked trenches, with foam insulation to prevent freezing
• Water system on a manifold in the well house to shut water on/off to any location, with room to add more locations
• Centralized water softener, filter and UV light treatment inside well house

MECHANICAL:
• Installed 1,100 feet of underground power from NW Energy. Runs along outside horse pasture
• 2 transformers on property can be used for new development
• 200 amp service with sub panel and disconnects

Improvements and construction details from the Seller:

LAND:
• Removed 6 miles of old fence and wire and old metal from the interior and partial perimeter of the land
• Installed over 3 miles of new corral board fencing, 1200 railroad tie fence posts, 70,000
board feet of fir.
• Instituted aggressive weed control program, in year 3 with fantastic results
• Removed tons of dead wood and debris, specifically from food plot
• Planted alfalfa and corn
• Leveled and graded the area where buildings and horse facilities lay
• Built a 16ft wide road of compacted road mix bordered by rail road ties
• Over 200 Semi loads of road mix for roads and parking areas
• Restored all pastures after being grazed by cattle, improving habitat and cover for all birds and large game

LANDSCAPE:
• Planted over 100 seedless Cottonwood trees, 40 Aspen, 3 semi trailer loads of Spruce, all individually irrigated
• 20,000 sf of sod
• Over 100 plantings
• Seeded all the disturbed areas with native pasture grasses
• Irrigation system has over 28 zones but is easily blown out in the fall from one location in the well house

WATER:
• Drilled well that produces an amazing amount of water
• 7 hydrants on the property and 5 auto horse waterers
• All water lines to hydrants and houses buried over 7 ft deep, in GPS marked trenches, with foam insulation to prevent freezing
• Water system on a manifold in the well house to shut water on/off to any location, with room to add more locations
• Centralized water softener, filter and UV light treatment inside well house

MECHANICAL:
• Installed 1,100 feet of underground power from NW Energy. Runs along outside horse pasture
• 2 transformers on property can be used for new development
• 200 amp service with sub panel and disconnects• 3 large conduit lines from well house (where main electrical comes in) run with gas and water in GPS marked trenches
• Internet and solar all protected in conduit run in the same trenches
• 2 - 1,000 gallon propane tanks are tied together and buried out of sight
• Gas lines to house, guest house, shop and back-up generator are seamless and uninterrupted
• House and Guest house run off a gas furnace
• 2 Rinnai shop heaters run on variable BTU load from 10,000 to 8,000 each
• Generac propane gas back-up generator
• 2020 total propane usage: 500 gallons
• 2021 total ranch propane usage: 700 gallons
• Energy costs to run the entire ranch has never gone over $1,200 a year
• Extremely well built and insulated buildings

SOLAR SYSTEM:
• 32K Watt Solar system with 98 solar panels on shop and barn roofs
• Calendar year with NW Energy starts April 1
• Barn and garage heated with electric
• LED lights, except for yard lighting outside barn, stalls, shop, well house and parking
• Grid tied solar so we Net Meter which means grid power, but produce solar power that gets “pushed” back and banked when it’s over produced
• System can be amended to run batteries and go totally off-grid
• Power is backed-up with Generac propane generator with smart feature that auto-checks the largest loads every 5 mins

INTERNET:
• Little Apple Technologies
• Dish is at the well house and pulls internet from 3 miles West
• Hard line from the dish is buried and runs to house and guest house
• 3 wi-fi networks from single account
• Stream multiple TVs, phones, computers, music without interruption
• Working from home is no problem

SEPTIC SYSTEM:
• 1500 gallon, 2-compartment gravity fed septic tanks at each house
• From there, pressurized system to drain field
• Pressure pumps wired with alarms
• RV site next to shop has its own septic dump feed to the guest house tank
• RV site wired with 30 and 50 amp hook-up and it’s own water hydrantEQUIPMENT BARN:
• 54ft x 32ft, heated
• Half is concrete slab and half is gravel to allow drainage off equipment and ATVs
• “Vet Room” with cabinets, refrigerator, counter tops and tack hooks, kept at 70 degrees year-round
• Walk-in cooler, insulated and runs on a wall unit A/C and a cool bot controller. Temperature controlled by smart phone
• Used for dry aging meats or storing fresh vegetables

SURROUND SOUND
• Sonos speakers located: in outdoor arena, inside the barn, in the shop, in the guest house kitchen, on the guest house back patio, in the main house garage, the main house kitchen, the main house patio/grill area, hot tub

GARDEN
• Shallow solar well in garden shed
• Shed sits on a flat pad built with retaining wall
• 2 solar panels and 2 tractor batteries in garden shed run water at 10 GMP and 40lbs pressure
• 3 water zones to water the garden attached to the fence and another zone going out to the food plot
• Water runs when the sun is out and off battery power when it isn’t
• Watering the garden is as easy as turning the pump on
• 8ft tall welded pipe and wire game fence keeps deer and other critters out of the garden
• Garden has a section of perennials with raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, grapes, rhubarb, and asparagus
• Annual section of corn, beans, peas, onions, carrots, potatoes, broccoli, squash, zucchini, melons, pumpkins and much more

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