True Ranch Collection’s Circle Bar Guest Ranch in central Montana serves as the location for an upcoming unscripted series that will air on The CW Network. “The Wranglers,” which follows the personal and professional lives of young staff members working at the Circle Bar Ranch, will premiere on The CW at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Monday, Oct. 14. While the ranch closed for the season at the end of September, reservations are available for the 2025 season, which begins in late May.
“Working on a dude ranch isn’t like working other hospitality jobs – it requires professionalism and a certain amount of grit, but, most of all, authenticity,” said Russell True, a Managing Partner of True Ranch Collection and an Owner of the Circle Bar Ranch. “We’re proud to show off the Circle Bar in ‘The Wranglers’ as the ranch and the Montana landscape provide a beautiful backdrop for the series.”
The 520-acre Circle Bar Ranch dates back to the 1800s and is set along the Judith River at the foot of the Little Belt Mountains, in country once roamed by famed cowboy painter Charlie Russell.
Circle Bar Ranch campfire – True Ranch Collection
The ranch is known for its horseback riding. Guests can lope across open prairies, traverse the Judith, visit a local elk preserve or ascend a ridge for a breakfast cookout. Sport shooting and 3D archery, fly fishing on the Judith, hiking neighboring national forest land and UTV tours to the cabin where prospector Jake Hoover lived when he discovered the precious Yogo sapphire are also available.
Accommodations include rooms for two in the Lodge, historic cabins that sleep two to eight and the Ranch House for families or groups. And dining includes homemade breakfast classics like pancakes and waffles, biscuits and gravy, breakfast burritos and lighter options, lunches that fuel guests for afternoon adventures, and steak, pork chops, pasta, fresh trout and more for dinner in the Lodge.
In “The Wranglers,” Circle Bar Ranch staff members work tirelessly to cater to the needs of guests who are escaping their fast-paced lives for an authentic western experience, while juggling their personal lives and the drama that comes from living and working with other attractive and independent-minded cowboys and cowgirls. They have a “work hard, play hard” mentality, as they’re responsible professionals by day who retreat to 20-somethings that lose their inhibitions by night.
