Here Are All the Major Filming Locations Paramount Uses to Shoot Yellowstone

Publish date: 2024-05-08
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Don’t confuse the ranch with the park. Yellowstone may take its name from the 3,472 square mile national park that spans parts of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, but the namesake in the show is the Dutton family ranch—the Yellowstone, as in: “The developers are coming to take the Yellowstone!”

In the series, the Dutton ranch borders the national park and is a hotly contested piece of real estate. Several times during the series we see tourists bumbling around John Dutton’s lands, cutting through fences, taking pictures of bears.

In reality, the Dutton ranch—or rather, the literal location where it’s filmed—lies north of the national park and in western Montana. And it’s not so close to Bozeman, where Beth seems to have her office—that’s a 4-hour drive to work for Beth. As for Kayce and Monica’s home in the reservation, that’s a 7-hour drive to the real location of the Dutton ranch. (To capture geographic realism, we need more driving scenes.)

Outside of Montana, the series also shoots in Utah, including Park City, Spanish Fork City, and Ogden where rodeo and bar scenes are filmed.

While everything isn’t as close together as the series depicts, the show's locations do exist just outside Yellowstone National Park. Those views are all real.

Here’s where Yellowstone films its biggest scenes.

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Where are the Yellowstone ranch scenes filmed?

The ranch scenes are all filmed at the Chief Joseph Ranch in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley. The ranch is an active family-owned ranch and includes the 6,000 square foot lodge seen in the series.

The history of the ranch dates back to the 1880s when it was first homesteaded, meaning the upcoming Yellowstone prequel series Y: 1883 follows a timeline similar to that of the actual filming location.

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You can actually stay at Chief Joseph Ranch if you book far enough in advance. You and three other guests can stay in Rip’s cabin for $1500 a night.

Where are the Yellowstone reservation scenes filmed?

Yellowstone films in the Crow Indian Reservation, located in southern Montana, just outside Billings. For the casino scenes, the team seems to use the Tribal Casino in Crow Agency.

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