Mountain Meadow Wool Mill
Buffalo, Johnson County, Wyoming. Wool Mill.
Details
- Where
- 22 Plains Drive, Buffalo, WY 82834. Directions
- When
- Monday-Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm; Saturday 9:00 am - 2:00 pm.
- Season
- Year-round; closed New Years Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas.
- Access
- 100% American Made and Wyoming Grown; eco-friendly operations.
- Walk-in or reserve
- Walk-in self-guided tour anytime the retail store is open; groups of 15+ should call to schedule a tour.
- Phone
- 307-684-5775
- Managed by
- Mountain Meadow Wool.
Wool mill at the foot of the Big Horn Mountains in Buffalo, Wyoming, with a self-guided mezzanine tour over a working production floor; visitors see the full process from shorn raw wool to hand-dyed finished yarn and can shop natural products made with the mill yarn.
Notable Events
- 2002Karen Hostetler and her partner set out to reverse declining wool prices and open a full-service mill paying fair prices to ranchers. mountainmeadowwool.com
- 2002Karen Hostetler and Valerie Spanos started the mill to help Wyoming wool producers market their wool. thefencepost.com
- 2005The idea arose to bring textile processing to Wyoming after the Hostetlers found that local wool had to be shipped away for processing. bigskyjournal.com
- 2007Karen and Ben Hostetler began developing their own production facility and learned textile work on the job. bigskyjournal.com
- 2007Karen Hostetler founded the mill with a mission to preserve the ranching culture of the Great American West. mountainmeadowwool.com
- 2007Karen Hostetler and Valerie Spanos opened the full-service Mountain Meadow Wool Mill in Buffalo. thefencepost.com
- 2021Mountain Meadow Wool became a production partner and educational resource for the Wyoming Wool Initiative. uwagnews.com
- 2022Courtney Newman used blockchain technology at the mill to document each step of blanket production. uwagnews.com
- 2023The University of Wyoming College of Agriculture, Life Sciences and Natural Resources named Mountain Meadow Wool its 2023 Outstanding Corporate Partner. uwagnews.com
People
- Ben Hostetler, Operations manager.
- Karen Hostetler, Co-founder (2002; opened mill 2007).
- Valerie Spanos, Co-founder (2002; opened mill 2007).
- Courtney Newman, UW graduate researcher who worked on traceability with Mountain Meadow Wool (2022).