Member of the American Highland Cattle Association

Come experience our heritage Scottish Highland cattle and native grasslands in the beautiful northern Black Hills, South Dakota.

Thank you for taking the time to view our treasured Scottish Highland cattle and our corner of SouthDakota’s Black Hills and prairie!

If you are coming to the Black Hills, please visit our ranch; experience our cattle and land personally. Not only will you get to play with, feed, and handle the fluffy cows and calves, but you will also be experiencing a piece of history that happened in South Dakota. In 1948, the Scottish Highland Breeders Association was created to collect, verify, preserve, and publish full blood pedigrees of Scottish Highland cattle. The very first Scottish Highland cattle registered in the United States came from Scotland to form a fold near Belvidere, South Dakota - about 150 miles east of our ranch. Some of the very first Highland cattle in the US were used for conservation purposes.

Our goal is to be guided by history and create a fold in Spearfish, South Dakota that can be genetically traced to the Highland cattle that were originally introduced to the region, forming the folds in South Dakota and eastern Montana. A collateral goal is use of grazing practices that enhance South Dakota’s grasslands.

No matter if you visited our website or have visited our ranch, we would very much enjoy hearing what you have to say on our comment page.

Spend quality time with your family and friends enjoying our amazing, hairy coos and beautiful vistas. Our goal is to further elevate your experiences and adventures in the Black Hills by introducing our incredibly friendly Scottish Highland cattle. We look forward to sharing our ranching and farming practices that rely on our Highlanders to enhance native prairie health. 

We offer 2 hour daily tours limited to your family or group.

We raise heritage Scottish Highland cattle and ranch with the goal of conserving and enhancing native pasture. Our Highlanders are instrumental in our conservation goals. Our husbandry practices are designed to retain the heritage traits of the first Highlanders that came to South Dakota from Scotland in the 1940s.

We offer daily tours for you and your family and friends. We also offer cattle and merchandise for sale.