PADLOCK RANCH
Homer and Mildred Scott started the Padlock Ranch with 3000 acres and 300 cows in 1943. Over the intervening years the Scott family has significantly increased the size of the ranch to where 55 employees raise and market over 11,000 calves a year on nearly 500,000 acres across Wyoming and Montana. The Padlock Ranch headquarters is located just north of Sheridan Wyoming near the quaint little town of Dayton, sitting at the foot of the Big Horn Mountains to the west and the high grassy plains to the east. The ranch is divided into units which are spread from Hardin, Montana to Sheridan, Wyoming. Elevations vary from nearly 9,000 feet on summer permits in the Big Horn Mountains to 3,600 feet on the Tongue River at Acme, Wyoming.