Montana’s Triple Creek Ranch luxury ranch near Darby named world’s best hotel

The remote Bitterroot Mountains near the tiny, blue-collar logging town of Darby seem like an unlikely hiding place for the planet’s greatest hotel, but that’s what Business Insider, a New York-based news and entertainment website, proclaimed on its new list of the "30 best hotels in the world."

The honorees include all the lavish accommodations one might expect: A 32-acre oasis of gardens in India where exotic birds surround an 18th century Shiva temple, an Irish castle, a Mediterranean beach club, a private island villa in the Maldives and a game reserve in South Africa. At the Mulia in Bali, Indonesia, guests are regaled with butler service, celebrity chefs and gorgeous oceanfront pools. And that’s just No. 29.

Topping the list, though, was the Triple Creek Ranch http://www.triplecreekranch.com/ on the West Fork of the Bitterroot River, and it caused quite a stir here in Montana.

Owned by former Intel CEO Craig Barrett and his wife Barbara, the former U.S. ambassador to Finland, the 700-acre, 24-cabin luxury hideaway also earned the top-ranking from Travel & Leisure magazine last year, beating out Costa Rican rainforest lodges and Italian palaces.

So what makes Triple Creek Ranch so special?

By DAVID ERICKSON For The Gazette

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Here’s why a ranch in Montana was just named the best hotel in the world http://www.matr.net/article-67872.html

Two Days at Montana’s Triple Creek Ranch http://www.matr.net/article-67138.html

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