Nearly five hours west of the national park of the same name sits the Yellowstone ranch. In real life, the working cattle ranch in Montana is known as the Chief Joseph Ranch, and it was featured in the pages of AD back in 1994. On Paramount’s hit Western drama, created by Taylor Sheridan, which returned November 10 for the conclusion of its fifth and final season, it’s the Dutton Ranch—and the epicenter of the action. Longtime star Kevin Costner has departed the show, but other members of the Dutton family are back onscreen, with episodes airing on Sundays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Paramount Network until the series finale on December 15.
“This lodge has actually become a character in our show,” set decorator Carla Curry has said, adding that the sprawling estate is really “what makes this show sing.” Owned and operated by rancher Shane Libel and his family since 2012, the land has been occupied since the late 1880s, but it was Yellowstone that thrust the ranch into the limelight. “The most surreal thing in the world—and the most humbling thing in the world,” Libel said, “is when you’re sitting in your own living room watching a show that’s filmed in your house.”
Where is Yellowstone filmed?
Chief Joseph Ranch is the home of Yellowstone’s Dutton Ranch. The property is located in the town of Darby, which is at the southern end of Bitterroot Valley and more than 200 miles west of Bozeman, one of the series’s primary settings.
