Our Wyoming Life Webcam – Watch a Gillette Family Ranch

The Our Wyoming Life Webcam looks inside the barn of a working family ranch near Gillette, in northeast Wyoming. Red-painted pens and gates run down one side of the building, with stout wooden posts, a straw-bedded floor and daylight pouring in through a wide doorway on the right. A second camera, on the Pasture Cam tab, faces south across open, rolling prairie, with a wire fence in the foreground, a few outbuildings in the middle distance and a great deal of sky. The pens can sit empty for long spells and then fill with whatever the day’s chores bring in, from cattle and calves to the mini donkeys that turn up in the ranch’s videos.

About the Our Wyoming Life Ranch

Our Wyoming Life is the name Erin uses for her family’s ranch and for the videos she posts about it several times a week on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. She describes herself as a first-generation rancher on a multi-generational ranch, a chance she credits to her mother and stepfather, and she has lived on the place since 2008. The ranch was first homesteaded in the early 1900s. Today it sells direct to the public: beef, pork, eggs and produce raised here go through an on-site farm store, and USDA-inspected beef, pork and jerky ship across the country. Cows, calves, mini donkeys and emus are among the regulars in the videos, along with Ranch Hand Jeff.

The ranch sits off Wyoming Highway 50, reached from exit 124 on Interstate 90 at Gillette. The town stands at 1,388 meters (4,554 feet) and counted 33,403 people in the 2020 census. It was founded in 1891 as a stop on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and named after Edward Gillette, a surveyor for the line. Before that the settlement went by Donkey Town, after Donkey Creek. Gillette calls itself the Energy Capital of the Nation, since it sits in the Powder River Basin, an area developed for coal, oil and coalbed methane, and Wyoming supplies nearly 35 percent of the nation’s coal.

The two cameras show different sides of the operation. The barn camera is a Google Nest unit the ranch labels simply “Barn”, aimed down the line of pens toward the open door. The pasture camera streams through IPCamLive and, in the ranch’s own words, faces south. Its picture is mostly sky over a long, low horizon, and a date and time stamp runs along the top of it. The ranch’s Harvest Hosts listing mentions cattle and horses within sight of the RV pads, and pronghorn now and then.

Weather and Climate in Gillette

Gillette has a dry climate with a wide gap between winter and summer. Under the 1991 to 2020 normals, January afternoons average 2°C (36°F) and nights drop to about -9°C (16°F), while July brings highs near 30°C (86°F) and lows around 14°C (57°F). The town averages 141 centimeters (55.7 inches) of snow a year but only 447 millimeters (17.6 inches) of total precipitation. In early November the grass on the pasture camera is the color of straw, under a pale, washed-out sky.

Winter is the hardest season to watch from the pasture camera. Because it faces south, the low winter sun sits in the frame through the middle of the day, so midday views come out bright and hazy, with a lens flare low in the picture. Snow, when it settles, turns the prairie white out to the horizon. The barn view on the Our Wyoming Life Webcam is untouched by glare and is the better choice on those days. In summer the noon sun typically clears the top of the pasture picture.

Things to Do Near the Our Wyoming Life Ranch

The first stop is the ranch itself. The farm store sells the ranch’s beef, pork, chicken, eggs, jerky, produce, honey and baked goods, and the Harvest Hosts listing adds homemade ice cream. RV travelers can park on the ranch for free, and the only request is a visit to the farm store during the stay. Power hookups at 30 and 50 amps cost $15 for the whole stay, there are free dump and drinking water stations, and the sites take rigs of 13.7 meters (45 feet) and longer. Harvest Hosts members book through that service, and everyone else books on the ranch’s own website.

In Gillette, the Campbell County Rockpile Museum on West 2nd Street tells the story of the county and its energy history in the Powder River Basin. Coal mine tours are what visitors to the town’s visitor center ask about most, and summer tours of the Eagle Butte mine are booked through the Campbell County Convention and Visitors Bureau. The CAM-PLEX has a 9,000-seat event center, the Wyoming Center, and the Campbell County Recreation Center has a climbing wall modeled on Devils Tower. For the real thing, Keyhole State Park lies about 72 kilometers (45 miles) east of Gillette, with fishing, boating, swimming and camping, and Devils Tower National Monument rises about 32 kilometers (20 miles) north of the park.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where is the Our Wyoming Life ranch located?

The ranch is near Gillette, in Campbell County in northeast Wyoming, United States. Its address is on Wyoming Highway 50, and the ranch directs visitors there from exit 124 on Interstate 90.

What can you see on the Our Wyoming Life Webcam?

The main view is the inside of the ranch barn: red pens and gates, wooden posts and a straw floor, with animals coming and going. The Pasture Cam tab looks south over open prairie, a fence line and a few outbuildings, with wide sky above.

What is the weather like in Gillette, Wyoming?

Winters are cold and snowy, with January highs around 2°C (36°F), lows near -9°C (16°F) and about 141 centimeters (55.7 inches) of snow a year. Summers are warm and dry, with July highs near 30°C (86°F) and lows around 14°C (57°F).

Who runs Our Wyoming Life?

Erin, who runs her family’s ranch and has lived on it since 2008. She calls herself a first-generation rancher on a multi-generational ranch and posts new videos several times a week on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.

What animals live on the Our Wyoming Life ranch?

The ranch raises beef cattle and pigs and keeps chickens for eggs. Cows, calves, mini donkeys and emus are regulars in its videos, and its RV listing mentions horses as well.

Can you visit the Our Wyoming Life ranch?

Yes. The ranch runs a farm store on site, and RVs can stay overnight for free, with paid power hookups, as long as guests stop in at the store.

Why is the Our Wyoming Life barn camera empty?

The pens are not occupied all the time. Animals come into the barn and go back out with the day’s work, so the picture can stay still for long stretches. When the barn is quiet, the Pasture Cam tab shows the ranch from outside.

Source: Our Wyoming Life