Black Butte Ranch, OR

Black Butte Ranch is a census-designated place and unincorporated private resort community in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. The 2020 census counted 260 residents. Black Butte Ranch is located in the Cascade Range, 8 miles northwest of Sisters. Black Butte Ranch is located in northwestern Deschutes County to the southwest of U.S. Route 20; it is surrounded by Deschutes National Forest. The short version is that Black Butte Ranch carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Black Butte Ranch: its past remains attached to the places people use now. The 6,436-foot summit of Black Butte overlooks the community to the northeast.