Campers load hay bails onto a trailer with the ranch crew

At the Bar 717 Ranch, our mission is to provide an outdoor camp experience where children have daily opportunities to have fun, develop friendships, challenge themselves, build character, learn new skills, gain a sense of community and make their own choices. Our summer camp staff play an essential role in making that vision come to life.

Life on the ranch is always busy. Between herding cows and herding campers this is a job like no other. Working at Camp can be one of the most rewarding jobs of your life! Come join our big ranch family and spend a summer working, living, and playing in the mountains with us.

Job Opportunities

Each summer our staff come together from across the world to create a fun, enriching, and unforgettable experience for Bar 717 campers. We are seeking enthusiastic counselors, kitchen staff, support staff, and ranch crew to join our community and help create another amazing summer.

Counselor get horse kisses
“Last summer was the best summer of my life. I’ve never connected with a group of people, a place, and a way of living so quickly and so deeply.”
S. Maylor
2017
“As I got to know my new Bar 717 family of counselors and staff, I soon came to know the true meaning and feeling of community that so many have come to love and appreciate about the ranch”
A. Werner
2014
“I want to be a counselor at Camp because I love working with kids! My favorite thing about camp is… that kids are allowed to be who they are. All kids at Camp are accepted and encouraged to express themselves.”
KW
2013
“Being a counselor was a wonderful experience and I am overjoyed that I had the opportunity to do it at the Bar 717.  I know it’s a choice I will never regret.”
B. Cenotti
2014
“The summer that I spent at the Bar 717 ranch has definitely been one of the best of my life. Having grown up in a fairly built-up area in the UK the scale and sheer beauty of the ranch took my breath away from day one, and that was just the start of it”
A. King
2015