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Wilson Ranches Retreat Bed & Breakfast

"Best Rest in Wheeler County"

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Wilson Ranches Retreat Bed and Breakfast is hidden in Butte Creek Valley two miles west of Fossil, Oregon. WRR is sited in a circa 1900 ranch house on Phil and Nancy Wilson's 9,000 acre working cattle ranch. The Wilsons are fifth generation Oregonians whose pioneer families settled in Wheeler County in the 1800's.

The Retreat is within an hours drive of the three John Day Fossil Beds National Monument units. Fossil offers public fossil diggings, museum, interpretive center, and historic courthouse. Kinzua Hills Golf Course and John Day River bass fishing, swimming and raft Trips are also available.

WRR is known as "The Best Rest in Wheeler County". The Bed & Breakfast has seven guest rooms, large living and dining rooms, full kitchen, guest refrigerator and microwave, and a spacious deck and lawn for lounging. Wilson Ranches offers trail riding, cattle drives, hiking, 4x4 truck ranch tours, photo-ops, and wildlife watching.

Location: PO Box 274, 16555 Butte Creek Road, Fossil Oregon 97830 Telephone 541-763-2227 Toll Free: 888-968-7698 Fax 541-763-2719

Other Bed and Breakfasts and Country Inns nearby:
(Maupin) Imperial River Company
(Fossil) Bridge Creek Flora Inn
(Dufur) Dufur Valley Bed and Breakfast
(Kimberly) Holmes River Ranch Inn
(Fossil) Wilson Ranches Retreat Bed & Breakfast


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