Jax Ranch & Home

Specialties

We have your gear: Clothing, Footwear, Pet & Equine, Hardware, Outdoor Power Equipment, Ag & Auto, Books & Toys, Yard & Garden, Western Wear, Home & Gifts.

We also offer a full service small engine shop of any make and model, as well as warranty work for Honda Power Equipment, Stihl, Cub Cadet and Mi-​T-​M.

We carry all the top brands: Carhartt, Ariat, Justin Boots, BOGS, Wells Lamont, Weaver Leather, Troxel, Priefert, Wrangler, Nutrena, Purina, Farnam, Cinch, Twisted X Boots, Honda Generators, Gallagher, Tarter, Dewalt, Stihl, Mythic Paint, Benjamin Moore Paints, Keeper, DeeZee, Toro, Hobart, Ranch-​Way Feeds, Ertl, Rubbermaid, Oklahoma Steel & Wire Co., Cub Cadet, and more.

History

Established in 1955.

Jax began in 1955 as small building on the edge of the Dreher family pickle farm where the boys sold military surplus items. At the same time in Ames, Iowa, Marvin & Lola Quinlan opened a small military surplus store. At 18, Marvin & Lola’s son, Jim, became Store Manager and sole employee.

At 21, Jim headed west to open his own store. «Rocky Mountain Surplus» in Fort Collins, CO opened on August 1, 1983. In 1988, the Dreher family announced they would be closing the original Jax Store. Jim acquired the Jax property.

In 2001, «Quality Stores» declared bankruptcy and Jim acquired the property. On April 1, 2002 the store opened as «Jax Farm & Ranch». In 2008, the Loveland store was the first to offer all of our product categories together.

In 2010, we opened our 5^th store, with a blended category mix in Lafayette. In 2013, we expanded the store into two separate stores. The blended store was converted to Jax Outdoor Gear and we added our 6^th store, Jax Ranch & Home in Lafayette.