Cut Your Own Christmas Tree & Red Feather Art Fair!

Get silly!

Looking for a week-end get-away between the madness of Thanksgiving and Christmas? How about December 1st & 2nd or 8th & 9th? Two week-ends, two opportunities for fun!

Ride a horse, maybe in the snow!

Ride a horse, maybe in the snow!

Morning horseback riding? Maybe a chance to cut your own Christmas Tree? (We will have a few bow saws you can borrow.) Or a few relaxed hours at an old-time Christmas Market and Craft Fair to pick up gifts? Come back to the lodge for hot chocolate and cookies?

To book your reservation, call us at 970-224-1222 or 800-357-4930

The Greening of Red Feather Lakes Dec 1st & 2nd!!!

This HOLIDAY MARKETPLACE will highlight craft booths offering

Get silly!

Paintings, Carvings, Pottery . . . → Read More: Cut Your Own Christmas Tree & Red Feather Art Fair!

Dude Ranch Discounts, Specials and “Motivators”!

horseback riding back to the ranch

Summer Horseback Riding is Right Around the Corner!

horseback riding back to the ranch

Kristina leads a horseback ride back to the ranch

Sundance Trail Guest Ranch Is Ready With Specials and Discounts!

It’s cold out. I don’t want to go outside, so I’m playing with last year’s pictures, getting them ready to put in the albums, and I’m kinda lonely sitting here…. What can I do to “nudge” you to call me?

I know! How about:

Early Bird Incentive – add a Swedish Massage to your stay if you call and book before March 15th, and how about Return Guest Discount – wouldn’t it be fun to come back this year? How about a 5% discount? Or Refer another family for a 5% discount on your next stay. Or Do Both! . . . → Read More: Dude Ranch Discounts, Specials and “Motivators”!

10% Off Country Inn Christmas or New Years B&B –

Pet Friendly B&B Christmas Mountain Lodge

A Pretty Darn Good Deal! 10% Off Colorado Country Inn Christmas or New Years B&B – Bed & Breakfast Country Inn Christmas

Country Inn Christmas Horseback Ride

Usually by now we are fully booked for the Christmas Country Inn holiday week, and the New Year’s Eve Murder Mystery.

Pet Friendly B&B Christmas Mountain Lodge

Pet Friendly Sledding: Christmas Country Inn

We’re not!!! Come see us!

Come join us! Your dogs are welcome! We are pet friendly. (You can bring human friends too. Heck, even your children!)

We have Colorado snow on the ground, and sunny days. It makes for beautiful horse back riding!

We ride our . . . → Read More: 10% Off Country Inn Christmas or New Years B&B –

Dude Ranch Death: A B&B Murder Mystery & Wedding!

Mountain Lodge Wedding

Mountain Lodge Wedding

Soooo Romantic!

Is this a Bed & Breakfast wedding with a Murder Mystery Game?

or a

B&B Murder Mystery Weekend with a wedding?

Most people elope to a dude ranch to get away from their family and friends. They want a relaxed, very simple ceremony and a fun weekend getaway horseback riding.

Dude Ranch Wedding

Country Inn Wedding

Well, Joel and Sheri decided to have a simple, relaxed ceremony, but brought their family, including all the kids and the dogs.

Why? They had an opportunity to tie the knot while on pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and were married while visiting the Sea of Galilee. Wow!

But what of mom and dad? And what of the gang of brothers and . . . → Read More: Dude Ranch Death: A B&B Murder Mystery & Wedding!

Dude Ranch Quiz: What is This Horse Saying???

Colorado Dude Ranch horses communicate very clearly! Dude Ranch Horse Stevie

1. What is Stevie saying here?

This quiz is part of a series of articles that we have written in the  Sundance Trail Guest Ranch Horse Safety and Horse Communication collection, including Speaking to Your Dude Ranch Horse Part 1 and Speaking to your Dude Ranch Horse Part 2.

When at Sundance Trail Guest Ranch, either for a summer dude ranch vacation or Fall/Winter/Spring B&B stay,

Ranch Vacation Horse Mocha

2. And Mocha?

you will spend lots . . . → Read More: Dude Ranch Quiz: What is This Horse Saying???

Yehaw!!! Snow for our Dude Ranch Halloween!!!

Dude Ranch horse back riding with Skip

Mountain Lodge Horse Back Riding in the Snow Mountain lodge guest Laura horse back riding on dude ranch Skip!

Laura and Skip enjoy the snow.

Hmmmm…… The weather people call for an October total of 2.9 inches of snow for our area. We got that three weeks ago, and it disappeared the next morning, as October snow should. The aspens still claim October as theirs; time to show off their golden leaves.

Dude Ranch horse back riding with Gauge at our Colorado Mountain Lodge . . . → Read More: Yehaw!!! Snow for our Dude Ranch Halloween!!!

Colorado B&B Dude Ranch Murder Mysteries

With neighbors like Mae and Charlie, our dude ranch B&B sees lots of mystery murders!

With neighbors like Mae and Charlie, our dude ranch B&B sees lots of mystery murders!

What do Pepi Roni (the pizza magnate), Judge Waylin Payne (of Roadkill, Colorado) and the science fiction author H. G. Wells have in common? Why, they’ve all been murdered right here at our Colorado B&B – dude ranch!

One of our favorite winter time activities is Murder Mystery weekends. Once a month or so, when we have 8 to 12 willing suspects, we find a poor murder victim sprawled . . . → Read More: Colorado B&B Dude Ranch Murder Mysteries