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Relax and
experience the pleasures of cowboy living on smooth gaited horses. Each
season offers spectacular beauty and an abundance of activities at on of
our
working family ranch, nestled in the Ozark highlands.
Located one hour from St. Louis's Lambert
International Airport, you drive southwest thru beautiful country with
rolling hills where interesting stops might include wine country
vineyards, cave tours, or one of many antique shops.
It’s truly a setting for all seasons - meadows graced
with wildflowers in the spring, summer respites in the cool caves along
the towering Vilander bluffs, wooded hillsides splashed with autumn’s red,
orange and gold, and winter’s intimate stillness after a snowfall on the
country landscape.
Rich in
cowboy traditions and horsemanship, the 500 acre ranch is a
working ranch. Surrounded by rivers, trails, and other nature,
there is a wealth of cowboy activities to choose from. Once you
are at the ranch, we help you design what you'd like to do on
you cowboy getaway with us. We can plan trail riding, roping
lessons, horse-drawn hayride, sleigh rides in the winter, or
just watch some of the day to day horse work on the ranch. Roy
might be shoeing horses, harnessing a team, or Tanya might be
training a young colt. No matter what
the season, the ranch is a place for peace and discovery, far away from
the pressures of everyday life.
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2008 Rates include accommodations with breakfast and lunch
and one barbecue dinner with bluegrass music, 3 days of riding (up
to 12 hrs). Each day covers different
territory "Across Missouri".
4 days/ 3 nights $595
Single: +$125
Extra night $195 Cattle Drive: +$50
Non rider rate: $395 |
Gratuities: 10 to 15% recommended
Tax: included
Open: All Year
Meeting: Bourbon
Airport: St. Louis
Transfer: Best to rent a car in St Louis
Tack:
Western
Horses:
Missouri Foxtrotters, Walking Horses,
Quarter Horses and Percherons
Level: From novice to
advanced
Pace: All paces acc. to riding level
Note: There are several restaurants close by, but you should have a rental car.
A hay wagon ride during your stay is
included and you can also add a cattle drive
(small extra fee).
Accommodations:
Private rooms in the main ranch house or in a spacious 2 bedroom
(fully equipped) log cabin (min 2 persons)
The Horses
The ranch
has several breeds of horses - from Quarter Horses to the smooth
gaited Missouri Foxtrotters, that are sure footed to handle the
hilly rocky outlaws trails. You will explore endless
trails in the Missouri Ozarks (approx 4 hrs a day).
The "Big Girls", Percheron draft
horses are used in day to day chores as well as pulling the
hayride wagon and sleighs.
Other activities
You might want to fish, hike, bird
watch, kayak or canoe on a local river, just go swimming and
float on your back for the day, do some photography or sit and
relax in a rocking chair on the big front porch.
Evening Entertainment
As the sun starts to set in the west, the horses unsaddled and
turned out to night pasture, folks and the ranch dogs gather
around the chuck wagon and cowboy campfire for the evening.
The smells of cowboy cooking fills the air as you listen to
local Bluegrass musicians playing old west songs. You are
welcome to bring your guitar, banjo, or fiddle and join in.
It's cowboy life at its finest, eating ranch grub around the
chuck wagon, a blazing campfire, good cowboy coffee, story
telling or poetry, and roasted marshmallows at the end of a full
day (one barbecue dinner is included during your stay). On other
nights you can explore and eat at one of the many good
restaurants in the area.
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" When you think of
the Missouri Ozarks and trail-riding you should think of the Missouri Fox
Trotter. The Missouri Fox Trotting Horse was developed by the early Ozark
Mountain settlers to provide a smooth, quick, riding horse that was also
sure-footed enough to handle rocky, hilly terrain".
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