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Dryhead Ranch sits at the base of the Pryor Mountains south of Billings, Montana on 21,000 acres of beautiful grassland meadows. Our cowboys and cowgirls take care of 30 head of foundation bred mares and four studs. We break and train the young stock born and raised in the open meadows of the Dryhead Country.
Our Horse Drives are a horseback riding vacation unequaled in the Montana working ranch vacations listings.
Our Quarter Horse foundation breeding lines include: horses from Doc Bar, Riccochet Bob, Tee J Roe Jack, and Paddys Irish Whiskey.
Dryhead Ranch has one of the best working ranch vacations in the dude ranch business. Our horseback riding vacations are authentic and have been very popular for over 30 years.
The Bassett family started the working ranch vacations business 30 years ago when we began to share with our guests the lifestyle of our authentic horseback riding vacations.
The Dryhead Ranch is over 113 years old and it is full of real cowboy history and Indian stories we are waiting to share during your week with us. The Dryhead Ranch is all about Horses, Cattle, Cowboys, Cowgirls and open awesome country.
The Horse Drive is the exciting start of our working ranch vacation each year. We bring our riding horse cavvy to Wyoming in March to feed them hay and horse cake and do the vet work and brand inspections for the coming season. When our guests arrive for the first week of the season we rope out a horse that will match their riding abilities and we saddle everyone up and start down the Old Sioux trail with our guest horses. We walk, trot, and walk these horses 50 miles and three days into the Dryhead Country to the ranch in Montana.
We do all of our own cow and horse work horseback. The remaining two days of our week we will spend riding at the ranch, you will love it. This is the first riding of the season we have been able to do at the ranch, so we never know what awaits us. It can be almost more exciting than trailing the horses.
Dryhead Ranch is a special piece of Montana. Quiet, peaceful, remote, beautiful, and great to ride your horse in. Come join us.
Our mini horse drives are a one day sometimes two day moving horses adventure. We made this activity to give inexperienced riders a chance to learn how to handle a cavvy of horses in a slower learning experience.
The mini horse drives are scheduled during the summer months and we can move several different groups of horses: mares and colts and studs, young colts, or the horse cavvy during this week.
Mini Horse Drives have become one of our favorite horseback riding activities. The smiles on our guests faces when they have successfully brought the groups of horses to the correl or turned them loose in the new pasture is worth a million words.
Each Horse Drive or Round-Up will move different horses. Sometimes we will trail baby colts with the mares, sometimes we will move young horses in training with cavvy horses who know the way and how to stay together. Sometimes we will move mares and studs to fresh grass pastures where they spend the summer season. Often we will move the riding horse cavvy that we pick our guest horses out of. Each requires a different level of experience and skill.
A loose horse can outrun a saddle horse with a rider anytime so we will show you how to manage a herd of horses and move them in a way where we can move them and take them where we want them without hurting the colts or running horses out of control.
Western movies make horseback riding vacations look like horses can run forever and that horse riding people run everywhere. But, responsible horse people know that a walk or a canter is much more healthy and realistic in moving horses.
Spring Horse Drive Schedule:
The Dryhead Ranch Spring Horse Drive begins on April 17, 2011. We have brought our riding horse cavvy to Wyoming to feed them and do the vet work for the 2011 season. We will be trailing these horses back to the ranch in Montana. This will be a three day trail and then we will do the beginning boundary riding at the ranch to get the ranch ready for cows.
Fall Horse Round up Schedule:
The Dryhead Ranch Fall Horse Round up is on October 30 - November 5, 2011. We will be gathering mares and colts from several different pastures around the ranch and taking out the studs. We will mark the registration papers on the colts for 2011. The mares will spend the winter at the ranch so when we are finished with the paperwork we will finish our working ranch vacations season by take the mares to their winter pastures.
On the rates page we have a list of things to bring.
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Horse Drives and Round ups in the United States are a rare experience. Dryhead Ranch was featured in the "Cowboys and Indians" magazine in April 2007 article sharing pictures and information on the few places that offer this type of horseback riding vacations. We have also been featured in the "Western Horseman" Calendar for 2008 as the January picture of our 2007 Horse Drive over the Pryor Mountains. We were featured again in the 2010 "Western Horseman" Calendar on the January picture.
Working with horses is a wonderful thrill. We share this unique love with all of our guests that come to our ranch. All of us and all those guests who come to spend a week at our ranch in one way or another share the common bond of loving horses. The Dryhead Ranch offers some unique opportunities to see horses in their natural environment and work with them in a quiet natural special way.
Come join us.
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Dryhead Ranch, Montana ~ Office: 1062 Road 15 Lovell, WY 82431, USA, dhr@tctwest.net |
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307-200-9661 (within the US) Phone: 307-548-6688, Cell Phone: 307-272-6688 |
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