Articles Tagged 'Ranch%20vacations'

Dude Ranch Blog

Roping: The Sport of Cowboys

Home Ranch guests and employees alike often spend their free time learning to rope, which has quickly caught on as the ranch's sport of choice. By Molly Murphy  On quiet afternoons around the barn at The Home Ranch, a guest ranch located in Clark, Colorado, the unmistakable swoos...

Darley’s Travel Blog

Tanque Verde Ranch Chuckwagon Breakfast Ride

A horseback ride at an Arizona dude ranch makes a chuckwagon breakfast even yummier. by Darley Newman, as published in her Trail Rider column in True West magazine. Tanque Verde Ranch’s history of bandits and cattlemen, mixed with Apache warriors, Spanish explorers and gold prospectors, ...

Dude Ranch Blog

Fly-Fishing Ranch Vacations

Three great places where you can combine fly fishing with horse riding on a dude ranch vacation. by Darley Newman In addition to horseback riding, a favorite American outdoor pastime is fishing. According to some estimates, approximately 40 million people are considered "anglers". In recent ye...

Equestrian Travel Articles

Montana- Big Sky Country

Horse Riding and Travel Adventures at The Bar W Ranch in Whitefish, Montana. Written By Susan Seligman, Photographs courtesy of Susan Seligman and Bar W Ranch The day was beyond perfect. We rode for miles along the border, and then dropped down to a pure white sandy beach surrounding azure bl...

Expert Equestrian Articles

Ups and Downs of Ranching Dreams

Who hasn’t fantasized about riding off into the sunset on your own horse through beautiful Western terrain that is all yours for as far as the eye can see? by Darley Newman. Originally published in True West magazine. Yet running a ranch is a 24/7 existence with a lot of hard work and sa...

Equestrian Travel Articles

Hunewill Ranch Vacation & Cattle Drives in California

A rider vacations at a family-owned, Western ranch just east of Yosemite National Park, enjoying Gold Rush history and cattle drives. by Dorina Lindberg Bridgeport Valley lies below the slope of the highway like a green carpet, a contrast against the dun-colored rock hills and sagebrush. Hunew...

Darley’s Travel Blog

Charlevoix Horse Riding Quebec Travel Video

Watch a travel video of riding Haflinger horses during autumn at Ranch du Fjord in Charlevoix, Quebec. by Darley Newman View the changing leaves horseback riding horses at Ranch du Fjord, located a few hours from Quebec City and Montreal in the Charlevoix region of Quebec in this Equitrekking ...

Darley’s Travel Blog

Wyoming- UXU Ranch Spectacular Ride

by Darley Newman Today I rode Tiny, a Paint Horse, at UXU Ranch, a dude ranch in Wapiti, Wyoming, which is 22 miles outside of Cody. The area is reported to have been called the most scenic 52 miles in America by Teddy Roosevelt. As Tiny and I climbed to the top of a point to take in the sn...