Rial Chew Ranch Complex
Moffat County
The complex is representative of a family operated ranch as it developed over more than fifty years and two generations. The family operated the ranch from 1902 through the early 1970s when it was purchased by the National Park Service.
Rial Chew Ranch Complex (1962 photograph.)
Among the surviving buildings and structures are an early dugout dwelling believed to date from the 1880s and the most recent dwelling, an intact log ranch house constructed in 1940. Listed under Dinosaur National Monument Multiple Resource Area.