Bar BC Dude Ranch Restoration

The valley’s oldest standing dude ranch is looking a little nicer these days thanks to the University of Pennsylvania’s Architectural Conservation Lab who is spending a week doing a top-to-bottom preservation project on one of the ranch’s many historic sleeping cabins.

The historic preservation graduate program is in its third season at the Bar BC Dude Ranch assisting the park in devising and implementing a plan to preserve the remaining buildings.

The focus of this week’s work is to preserve the cabin while identifying the costs, materials, techniques and labor necessary to stabilize one of the dozen or so typical sleeping cabins so that the park can help identify future funding needs.

The project has involved replacing the roof, rotten logs, deteriorated chinking and establishing positive drainage to keep water away from the building.