Cold Creek Ranch

Welcome to Cold Creek Ranch, a 10,000 acre working cattle ranch in Arizona’s Mogollan Rim Country. Here, the Schwennesen family, with roots in Arizona since 1921 produces 100% natural grassfed beef. This has not kept us out of the global discussion on land management and the value of productive landscapes. This international sense has welcomed dozens of visitors from around the globe.

Cold Creek lies between the headwaters of the Gila and San Francisco Rivers, high above the lower plains and rangelands of Southern Arizona. Our mission is the production of humane and sustainable beef. We know that managing land well can restore the biodiversity that our landscapes are losing at a frightening rate. We are dedicated to improving our watershed. We share our ranch with a variety of wildlife: mule deer, javelina, quail, rabbits and rattlesnakes, to name just a few.

We live “off the grid” producing all our own electricity from a medium-sized solar system. There is no televison reception and to get a cell phone to work you’ll have to go across the Black Jack Creek or around the mountain a ways (Jean can show you her favoite “phone booths” with comfortable rocks for desks and juniper trees for shade).