The Ranch at Rock Creek

The Ranch at Rock Creek is the Relais & Châteaux ranch — the world's first Forbes Five-Star guest ranch, ten square miles of working Montana land in Granite County, and an all-inclusive structure that includes the dining, the wine, all the activities (fly fishing on the blue-ribbon Rock Creek is the headline), and the ground transfer from either Missoula or Butte. The twenty-nine accommodations run from lodge rooms in the main house to canvas-cabin glamping with woodstoves to standalone luxury homes that sleep up to eight.

For honeymoons that want the West without the dude-ranch cliché this is the right call — quiet, refined, and the staff-to-guest ratio that justifies the all-inclusive price. For weddings, the property does full buy-outs (twenty-nine keys, up to seventy-five guests); book the ceremony at the Granite Lodge and the asado dinner outdoors.

The Montana ranch, done at the Relais & Châteaux level.