Double O Ranch

Ovenell’s Heritage Inn & Log Cabins

Owners: The Ovenell Family

Farm Type: Cattle Ranch & Meat Sales

Farm Premises: 580 acre cattle ranch, wildlife preserve.

Ovenell’s Heritage Inn: AAA Rated Accommodations available: Pine log cabins, guest houses. Harvest host sites.

About Double O Ranch

Learn While Touring These Premises: See conservation projects along the river, calving, animal health, pasture rotation & timber management, learn about and see wildlife on the ranch. Learn how our beef production and conservation projects work hand and hand. Enjoy our family history.

Food ($): Double O Ranch grass-fed hamburgers, cooked to order, homemade chili and hotdogs, hand cut fries from local potatoes, drinks for sale. Cowboy coffee stand.

Retail($): Beef orders, USDA inspected, grass-fed, beef by the package, handmade cedar trivets, homemade baked goods, jams and jellies, local honey.

Free Samples: Homemade harvest breads.

Farm History

The original 713 acres were purchased by James T. Ovenell and Harold Pierson in the 1940’s and named the P&O Hereford Ranch. By 1960 James T. and Mary Ovenell were sole owners and the name changed to Double O Ranch. Crops included green peas, flax, sweet corn, corn silage, wheat, barley, timber and pasture. Today we have 100 pairs of Maine-Anjou cattle, 4 log cabins and 3 guest homes. The Ovenell family signed one of Skagit County’s first conservation plans in 1944

AgFARMation

Beef is one of the most commonly available sources of lean protein. Even though 7many people blame the cattle industry for a large portion of global warming, according to Oklahoma State University’s Division of Ag. Sciences and Natural Resources. the EPA estimates that direct emissions from the U.S. beef industry accounts for only 1.9% of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

Activities

~FREE~Festival Activities:

Educational displays featuring year-round ranch activities, calving and health care.
Cow in my Marshmallow display.
Hayride farm tour through pastures, cattle, CREP project and timberlands; see deer, elk and woodland birds.
Educational children’s activities. And free goodies. Posters from local 4-H and FFA youth.
Equipment display.
Carving a ranch from the wilds” farm history and antique equipment display.
Interact with Conservation District’s Blossom the pink squirrel.
Pet Champ the Clydesdale.
Visit the ducks, chickens and geese and turkeys, we might even have babies.
Information and sales of natural soaps and creams by our supplier Wild Opal Natural Products.
See herd bulls and weaned calves up close, pet and feed show calves, if available.
Furs and Things 4-H club educational displays, info on 4-H programs.
“Mud puddle mules” wagon and mule display.
Concrete School District’s farm to School program. Information, veggies & flowers for sale.

Location & Directions

Double O Ranch
46276 Concrete Sauk Valley Rd.
Concrete, WA 98237

360-853-8494

Get Directions

From I-5 exit 232 (Cook Road/Sedro-Woolley). East on Cook Road to Sedro-Woolley, turn left, take Hwy. 20 east to Concrete. Turn right on Concrete Sauk Valley Rd. Go 1 mile, cross bridge, stay left. In 2 miles, Double O Ranch/Ovenell’s Heritage Inn is on right.

Miles Off of I-5: 30