Idaho Rocky Mountain Ranch
The Idaho Rocky Mountain Ranch is a guest ranch located in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area of the U.S. state of Idaho, between the Sawtooth and White Cloud Mountain ranges. The ranch property is located in Custer County, sixty miles north of the Ketchum and Sun Valley resort area and south of Stanley, Idaho, which had a population of 100 at the 2000 census. History The Ranch property was originally part of Stanley Basin pioneer and Swiss guide Dave Williams’ homestead. Williams came to the Sawtooth Valley and opened his own dairy and butcher shop, delivered the mail up and over the . Galena Summit, and worked the Vienna Mine south of Stanley near the Smiley Lodge. Nearby Williams Peak (Idaho) is named after the pioneer, who was a part of the first ascent team in 1934. In 1929 the property was acquired by Winston Paul, a New York Frigidaire distributor, who began building the Idaho Rocky Mountain Club to serve as a private hunting club. Ranch Construction began in the fall of 1929 with the snaking of logs up Williams and Gold Creek, to the Big Meadow chosen as the Lodge site. A crew of 60 men, among them