About Plenty Rocks Ranch
Nestled in the heart of Big Creek at the base of Grizzly Ridge, Plenty Rocks sits in Wapiti, Wyoming, all but surrounded by the Shoshone National Forest. It's more than a place; it's a working ranch with an open heart. This land has a long history of welcoming people: it was once the Circle H dude ranch, and later Star Hill Ranch, a private family guest ranch. In 2020 it became Plenty Rocks, and over time a mission took root here — to share this place not for profit but for purpose, a place to step out of the noise, put your hands to something real, and find rest the way a ranch gives it: earned and unhurried. This land is a blessing, and it's stewarded that way. The mountains, the horses, and the rhythm of ranch life have a way of putting things back in order — of restoring something in a person that's hard to name. That's the work we're honored to do here, and the people below are the ones who make it feel like home.
Lance and Stephanie
Lance and Steph have called this land home since 1992, back when it was still Star Hill Ranch. Lance came on as a ranch hand under the previous owners, and by 1994 he was running the place — caring for the cabins and lodge, guiding family trail rides, and leading hunting and fishing trips into the high country. He knows this land as few people ever could, every acre and every season of it, and he's looked after the horses since the Star Hill days. He carries a lifetime of stories to go with them. He's the kind of man who'll do just about anything for anyone, and he'll have you laughing while he does it. When he isn't out on the land, you'll find him fly fishing, out on his motorcycle, or watching football on a Sunday.
Steph tends the greenhouse and garden, coaxing things to grow in high-country soil, with a gift for nurturing that reaches well past her plants. A collegiate soccer player in her earlier years, she carries that quiet strength alongside a deep kindness — the sort of person who'll carry the smallest bug to safety rather than see it come to harm. Her grandkids come first above all else, and when she isn't with them she's in the garden or learning something new.
They raised two kids here, Alex and Colten, and three grandkids later the ranch is still very much a family affair.
Colten and Hannah
Colten was raised on this ranch — Lance and Steph's son, born into ranch life with skills handed down from his father, and never far from the land he grew up on. He and Hannah live just down by the barn at the Four Seasons Lodge with their two little ones, Clancy and Sadie.
Colten is all grit and follow-through, up before the sun and not one to quit until it's done. Through the summer he moves water across the fields by hand so the pastures stay green and the horses graze well — long days, muddy boots, and work that never really lets up. Between the land and the animals, his work is never done. And he never sits still: when he's not working he's after a big bull elk, out looking for sheds, in the saddle, tinkering on his diesel truck, or off on a dirt bike or mountain bike.
Hannah keeps the guest side of the ranch running — the bookings, the cabins turned between groups, the hundred small things that make a stay feel cared for — most of it with a little one on her hip and never seeming to break stride. She's endlessly handy, always with a new skill in the works, from the horses to homestead crafts to leatherworking, and alongside Colten she trains the ranch's horses. She's as at home in the backcountry as she is at the ranch, and when the work slows you'll most often find her there with her kids close by — Colten and Hannah are a tight-knit family, happiest together and never far from one another.
Kali Kaczmarek
Kali is a wife and mom first, with a heart for every creature great and small — hence the three dogs, two cats, and a tortoise sharing the house with her husband and four boys. She spent years in a career she loved as a firefighter-paramedic, and when that chapter closed, it was horses that helped her find her footing again, through the ARCH method of equine therapy back home in Minnesota. Kali came to Plenty Rocks through one of her dearest friends, a fellow firefighter-paramedic, and this land became a respite for her soul — Shoshone for the soul. She loves it all — the kids' camps, the family groups, the ranch ministry — and, now training in the ARCH method herself, she's answering a shared calling: bringing equine-assisted services to the first responders and veterans who spend themselves for others.
A family and a way of life…
Plenty Rocks is home to this family year-round — through every season and all kinds of weather, this is where they live and work. The skills that keep the ranch running have been handed down from one generation to the next: knowledge, ability, and a deep respect for the land that can't be taught in a hurry. More than anything, this is a family with a heart for serving others. When guests are here, everyone comes together — sharing the work, the meals, and the evenings — because that sense of community is really the heart of what Plenty Rocks is about.