Maki Ma-K-Ha Creek Ranch

Land Description

Own a rare 320 acre holding with easement access to 5,000+ acres of private recreational haven and seamlessly reach into thousands of acres of National Forest. Maki Ma-K-Ha Creek Ranch delivers premier hunting, fishing, and four-season adventure in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem-without the resort pretense. Quiet 5-acre building envelopes, come for the water and ridgelines stay for the privacy, the story, and the legacy.

Land

This 320 acre collection grants owners shared, deeded access across 5,000+ acres of private ranchland plus trail/creek corridors into thousands of acres of National Forest. Parcels are sited for privacy and view-shed protection, wildlife-friendly fencing guidelines, and a land-stewardship program balancing habitat and ranch operations.

Recreation

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 the greater Yellowstone ecosystem of western Wyoming, the ranch enjoys low-humidity summers, cool nights, bright fall colors, and snow-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 heritage-hay meadows, cattle, and historic stock trails that double today as wildlife corridors. Maki Creek Ranch follows a light-touch, conservation-forward approach 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 the Eastern Shoshone with close ties to Bannock bands from the Snake River/Fort Hall area. Their name for the Green River-Seeds-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 the Wind River Reservation to the east.

Trails you can still walk. On the forest just above the ranch, the Old Indian Trail - Maki Creek Crossing is documented in Forest Service project records-one 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 1820S-1840S, 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, crossing South Pass and convening the famous Green River Rendezvous near present-day Daniel/Pinedale-six 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 classic working-ranch country-meadows in the bottoms, summer range on the benches, timber for posts and stove-wood up high. That working landscape-stock, hay, and wildlife moving through the same corridors-still defines the feel of the place.