
Colorado Dude Ranch Vacation Single Person Challenge Course
Starting simple
So many of our guest ranch guests have been here numerous times, so every year or two we try to
add something new to our “standard” adventures all designed to make you VERY dirty, very tired & maybe a little bit sore
Looks easy, eh?
Wrangler Nick is back (yee-haw!) & he is drawing and building not one challenge course, but three!
A Single Person Challenge Course
A Team Challenge Course A Kid and Horse Obstacle Course
Mudder . . . → Read More: Dude Ranch Challenge Courses: Part 1
Introducing Flat Stanley to Our Dude Ranch Life:

Flat Stanley is a pal of our friend Julian Byrnes from New York. He loves to travel and Julian suggested that he might enjoy experiencing a Colorado Dude Ranch vacation. Flat Stanley arrived and immediately threw himself into the excitement of winter in the Rocky Mountains.
He had to be a little careful on his first few days because it was very windy and blustery up here and he doesn’t have a whole lot of body mass. He was afraid he might blow away!
He braved the wind in the afternoon though to help me feed the horses.

. . . → Read More: A Unique Sundance Trail Guest

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!
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!
Family Christmas Dude Ranch Vacation: December 22 – 26, 2012
4 night Package
Details and rates here.
Come join us and relax over a long Holiday weekend. Let us cook and clean! A Christmas Eve Seven Course Dinner, a Family Style Christmas Dinner of Turkey carved at the table; a Champagne Breakfast on Boxing Day: family fun, including for mom!.
Some typical Morning Activities: Trail Riding, maybe in the snow! With lessons available.
Your hostess, Ellen, on the front steps!
And available Afternoon Activities: Trap and rifle shooting Trail Riding, maybe in the snow! Horse back riding lessons & coaching available Make and decorate Holiday/Christmas cookies Decorate the tree (help us find and bring home just the right tree) Hiking . . . → Read More: Family Christmas Week at Sundance Trail Guest Ranch
Fourth of July Celebration & Dude Ranch Vacation
Colorado Sky
You can plan your Family Adventure Vacation to include some of the most amazing, awe-inspiring and impressive Independence Day fireworks in the state of Colorado!
If you are staying with us the dude ranch week starting Sunday July 1st, , OR If you are arriving for the dude ranch week starting Sunday July 8th, OR If you are local, and want to spend the night and breakfast with us, consider staying Saturday night for the fireworks!
Suites will be available for single Saturday night stay with Sunday breakfast at our mountain lodge Bed & Breakfast rate of $149.
. . . → Read More: Fireworks Dude Ranch Vacation Saturday July 7th!

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

Mountain Lodge Horse Back Riding in the Snow
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.
. . . → Read More: Yehaw!!! Snow for our Dude Ranch Halloween!!!

Dude Ranch Square dance caller Mark
A little while ago, a journeyman square dancing caller named Mark Hammett somehow got entangled with a local group of crazy people, and the result is the Ponderosa Promenaders Square Dancing Club.
The Promenaders meet every week. Cyril somehow managed to get Ellen, Dan and Justin off the dude ranch to enjoy part of the winter in weekly lessons, and we’ve all been having a ball.
In fact, we’re having so much fun that we’ve installed a new dancing floor in the dude ranch recreation room!
Corrine and Mark
Mr. Mark has graciously agreed to call for us this summer!
He and his bride Corrine will be joining us for supper every Monday and then . . . → Read More: Dude Ranch Square Dancing in Red Feather Lakes!
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