Pennsylvania Farm Stay and Horseback Riding Vacation
What better way to welcome spring than a horseback riding vacation spent on a farm? For most farms and ranches, spring is the most active time of year. Foals are born and crops are planted.
Following a long Pennsylvania winter, the 22 member farms and ranches of Pennsylvania Farm Vacation Association are ready to welcome guests with open arms. Heck, they even welcome your help with the animals if you are interested.
Horseback Riding Vacation
If you are looking specifically for a horseback riding vacation, there are two member ranches that offer horseback riding. Buck Valley Ranch and Uncle Clem’s Place both offer lodging and horseback riding to Pennsylvania Farm Vacation guests.
Buck Valley Ranch
Located in the Appalachian Mountains of south central Pennsylvania, Buck Valley Ranch is a four bedroom guest house filled with cowboy memorabilia and antiques. The three day all inclusive stay, of $275 per person, allows guests to fill up on healthy and hearty meals.
After an hour or two of guided horseback riding, relax in the hot tub or cool off in the swimming pool. The ranches rural location offers peace and quiet with a chance to leave the hustle and bustle of urban life behind.
Uncle Clem’s Place
Uncle Clem’s Place is a farm vacation where guests learn how to be self supporting or simply come to relax. Stay in the newly restored 1920’s era farm house, smack in the middle of a 100 acre grazing system, surrounded by over 1,o00 acres of private woodland.
Try and overnight horseback riding pack trip into the mountains of south central Pennsylvania. For equestrians looking for a shorter horseback riding vacation experience, Uncle Clem’s offers one and two hour trail rides.
If You Go:
Pennsylvania Farm Stay 1-888-856-6622
Buck Valley Ranch LLC
1344 Negro Mountain Road
Warfordsburg PA 17267
717-294-3759 or 800-294-3759
Uncle Clem’s Place
1158 Trails End Road
Harrisonville PA 17228
717-485-9051
That’s an amazingly good rate, and the Appalachians are such a beautiful region – so different from the desert southwest where I live…..I’m definitely adding Buck Valley Ranch to my list of places to visit!