A real working cattle ranch in the high desert — mornings on horseback, afternoons mending fence, evenings at the fire circle. Three to seven nights, twelve guests max, no two days alike.
3 Nights
The shortest door in. Get on a horse, learn the basics of cutting and trail, ride out to the south meadow, eat ranch suppers. Best for first-time riders or skeptical spouses.
5 Nights · Most Booked
Our flagship. Long enough to actually become a ranch hand — you'll move cattle, mend a stretch of fence, learn knots, and ride into terrain the day-trippers never see.
7 Nights
The real thing. Ride the herd from winter range to summer pasture — 64 miles, four nights under canvas, range cooking every meal. Returning riders only.
Every guest rides paired with the same wrangler their whole stay. They'll teach you, watch you, and sit next to you at supper.
01Runs the operation. Started here as a teenager, took over the herd in 2004. Best teacher of trail-cutting on the property.
02Former barrel-racer, two-time state qualifier. Patient with first-timers, ruthless with bad form.
03Knows every fence post and creek bed. Leads the cattle drive every year. Doesn't talk much, says everything that matters.
04Range cook, farrier, fiddle player. Fire-circle ringleader. Will out-eat you.
Days here run on weather, light, and the cattle — not on a schedule. But here's the rough shape of one. Want the full hour-by-hour walk-through? Read the daily-life page.
Coffee in the cookhouse, then to the corral. Bridle up before dawn.
Ride out to wherever the herd settled overnight. Count, look for limps.
Cookout under the cottonwoods — biscuits, beans, whatever Wynn cooked.
Roping, cutting, knot-work, or fence-mending depending on the day.
Ranch dinner at the long table. Family-style, no phones.
Story time. Stargazing. Bed when you want.
Saddle, tack, bedroll, slicker, all meals, a horse for the week.
Boots (or rent ours), jeans you can dirty, a hat, a sense of humor.
None required for 3-night. Walk-trot for 5-night. Posting trot + canter for the drive.
Stay vouchers from $480. Private buy-out (12 guests) from $24,800/week.
Spring & fall weeks book seven months out. Winter is quiet and we like it that way. Hold a date today, no card required — we'll confirm by phone within twenty-four hours.