Looking for a dude ranch vacation in Whitefish, Montana offering authentic western hospitality? The Bar W Guest Ranch is a small, family-friendly guest ranch, located near Glacier National Park in western Montana. I’ve been fortunate to review numerous dude ranches in Montana. However, my Bar W Guest Ranch review is a first for me in […]
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Situated in northern California, Rollin F Ranch is a family owned ranch offering horseback riding in Sonoma County. The Fiddler family is a ranching family, having planted their first vineyard on the Sebastopol property in 1906. Rollin F Ranch offers private interpretive trail rides in west Sonoma County wine country. If you
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Bandanas and masks have always been associated with cowboys and spaghetti Western movies. Now, due to COVID-19, the western bandana, mask and social distancing practices will be a way of life for horseback riding vacations. Most of us are chomping at the bit to get back in the saddle. But what does this new
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It’s no wonder John Wayne spoke fondly of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The movie Big Trail was filmed in Jackson Hole back in 1929. It was the Hollywood cowboy’s first speaking role and his first time to ride a horse! I recently went on a Grand Teton horseback riding vacation at Jackson Fork Ranch and rode
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On a cool Sunday afternoon in late September, I arrived at Covered Wagon Ranch in the Gallatin Valley. Big Sky country was beginning to experience the fall color change in western Montana. Nelly, the teacup pig, worked the grounds of the ranch like a Hoover vacuum cleaner, eating the grass around her. Cowgirls walked
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With 3.85 million tourists visiting Napa Valley each year, Napa has wine tasting down to a science. There are over 500 wineries in the Napa Valley, however, what you might NOT know is that horses helped build its wine legacy. Dating back to the 1840s, horses were the primary form of transport for Napa residents
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“In riding a horse we borrow freedom,” that quote from Helen Thompson are words that I live by. In my Northern California city, I’m fortunate to live near wine country. Lucky for me, and you, I’ve discovered trail rides in Sonoma and Napa wine country with Sonoma Valley Trail Rides. There’s nothing better than
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California dude ranch experience at Greenhorn Ranch Leaving the San Francisco Bay Area traffic behind, I can literally feel the stress disappear from my body as my husband drives our truck into California’s Lost Sierra. The grand conifer trees and pine forests mingle with clear-running streams as we wind our way to Plumas County. The
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Few horseback rides are as memorable as those along the shores of the ocean’s crashing waves. Assateague Island National Seashore, home of the “wild” ponies, fits this experience exactly. Horseback riding on Maryland’s Atlantic coast, just south of the resort town of Ocean City, Assateague offers an almost endless, wide sandy beach that invites
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