Bar Cross Ranch

Overview

Century-old working cattle ranch in Cora-Pinedale, Wyoming — the site tells the ranch's stewardship story across cattle operations, wildlife conservation, and water and land management for a private, gated audience.

What I did

• Built the Next.js + Sanity marketing site covering History, Operations, Stewardship, Wildlife Conservation, Responsibility, and Community sections — each modelled as a typed Sanity document with preview-aware drafts
• Shipped the gated portal — login, request-access, terms-of-service, and privacy-policy flows backed by Postgres for credentialed visitors
• Wired SendGrid contact form with multi-recipient routing and resilient error handling for ranch enquiries
• Integrated Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, and Open Graph metadata across pages for social sharing and visitor analytics
• Built a proxy middleware to protect authenticated routes and enforce access policy without leaking gated content to crawlers

Outcome

Delivered a public stewardship narrative paired with a private, credentialed access layer — letting the ranch tell its conservation story while keeping the property itself genuinely off-limits.