Most people equate dude ranches to the range-riding, dog-wrangling, pot-full-of-beans-eating experience we all watched Billy Crystal endure in the movie "City Slickers." While that experience is ...
Flathead Lake Lodge, a Montana dude ranch known for its horseback riding program and rustic Western ambiance, may not seem like an ideal place to go sailing. After all, who goes sailing at a dude ...
There’s something undeniably romantic about riding a horse through a cactus-laced desert: the fresh air, the array of colors in the unpolluted sky, and the rugged sense of adventure only a horse can ...
Cowboys. Horses. Guns. Booze. And tennis? When it comes to dude ranches, hosts are adopting John Wayne’s, “A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do,” and are offering options unheard of just a few ...
The origin of the dude ranch vacation is a fascinating story. Back in the late 1800s and early 1900s, “dude” was the name given to “big-shot city slickers” by Western cattle ranchers (or cowboys).
I never thought I'd visit a real dude ranch, much less ride a horse - something I had never done. This fact surprises many, because I grew up on a farm near Floodwood. (I did drive a tractor, though.) ...
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X We rode our line of horses along a trail winding among giant saguaro cactuses towering nearly 30 ...
A golden retriever belly flopped enthusiastically into the swimming pool at Doggie Dude Ranch and O’Cat Corral, paddling hard for its tennis ball. Seconds after, a horde of Labrador retrievers and ...
Dude ranch vacations bring to mind western states like Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Montana, which are chock-full of places for a city slicker to ride horses, eat hearty meals, square dance and ...
Twenty-five miles isn’t a long distance, but it can sometimes seem like a world away. At least it can here in tiny Clark, Colorado, at Vista Verde Guest Ranch, outside the famous ski town of Steamboat ...