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Round Trip Shuttle service between Billings, Montana and the Ranch and back, will be provided for an additional $125.00 per rider.
PRICE INCLUDES:
Lodging in bunkhouse, private queen bed, three family style meals a day, well trained cow horses to ride, western tack and saddle, riding instructions, cattle to move and work. Taxes are included in price.
AVAILABLE:
Cabin with Private Bathroom (additional $200.00 for married couple or $150.00 for single occupant).
Bunkhouse with Semi - Private bath
NOT INCLUDED:
Transportation from Billings to Ranch and back to Billings. Additional charge when an extra trip is required not on a pickup date, additional days accommodations, and gratuities. Our gratuity policy is suggested at 15%.
Please note: We are located on a Federal Indian Reservation and we do not allow alcohol.
ACCOMMODATION:
Choose to stay in our newly remodeled cabins. Each with a private bath. Each cabin is private and accented with comfortable western decorations and warm homemade quilts. Or... choose to stay in our inviting bunkhouse rooms and step back into the cowboy days on a real working ranch. We have blended old and new in a western way by leaving the old log look and mixing it with hot water heat and electric lights. Each place to stay has a porch where everyone can gather to sit and enjoy the friendly talk of the day's events. Many friendships and relationships grow stronger sitting on the porch and sharing horse stories.
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We recommend a clean, reasonable motel that we work with. You can call the Rimrock Inn at 1-800-624-9770 or email them at info@billingsrimrockinn.com for a reservation, if arriving in Billings before the Sunday of your chosen vacation. Rimrock Inn is located near the airport and has an, airport shuttle when prior arrangements are made. Rimrock Inn has a nice continental breakfast each morning in the lobby, laundry facilities, exercise machines, internet service in the lobby, wireless internet in your room if you bring your own computer, and a friendly staff. They will let you store your luggage in the lobby while you walk downtown on Sunday, if you will ask them. Let them know when you make your room reservations that you are a guest at the Dryhead Ranch, as they offer our guests a discount.
Rimrock Inn offers an airport shuttle to the airport when you leave, as well as, from the airport to the Rimrock Inn when you arrive. You can use the courtesy phone at the airport to arrange a pickup if you do not make those arrangements when you book your room.
RANCH TRANSFER:
Dryhead Ranch
will pick you up at the Billings International Airport at 4:00 on the Sunday of your arrival. We will also pick up at the Rimrock Inn for those who arrive before Sunday. If you will send us your flight information, it makes it easier for us to know where we will meet you or how to get ahold of you if you should have flight problems. Iris and Jennifer both have cell phones with them and the numbers are listed below if there should be a problem or a change in pickup location.
Guests who are driving to the ranch need to drive a 4 - wheel vehicle. We will meet you at the airport in Billings at 4:00 on the Sunday of your arrival or at the Conoco gas station in Lovell at 6:30 on the Sunday of your arrival so you can follow us to the ranch.
Please send us your airline and travel information so that we know where to meet you. You will be returning to Billings at the end of your weeks stay on Saturday by early afternoon. The guests like to shop and plan a night out in Billings to eat and have a good time with new friends before flying out on Sunday morning.
The return to Billings on the following Saturday is 1:00 or 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon.
Our transfer fee is $125.00 per person (round trip) as long as everyone comes and goes at the same time. Special trips for those coming early or late will be charged $200.00 per person.
PAYMENTS, CANCELLATIONS:
Upon confirmation of your date for your "Cowboy Experience", please make arrangements to pay your deposit:
$500.00 deposit is required for each week upon booking to hold reservation. It is non-refundable if cancelled less than 60 days before vacation date. Balance is due 30 days prior to arrival and is non-refundable after trip is paid in full.
All payments in US dollars:
Personal Check (with approval), Visa, Mastercard and Bank wires accepted.
PLEASE NOTE:
Dryhead Ranch reserves the right to alter or change any attractions, dates, or activities, due to unforeseen circumstances. Substitutions of similar kind will be arranged. These circumstances include but are not limited to: unfavorable weather conditions, range conditions, insufficient bookings or Federal or State land management changes.
Schedule 2012:
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VACATION AT THE DRYHEAD RANCH:
We are thrilled to have you join us at the Dryhead Ranch for an authentic cowboy working ranch vacation. During the week that you will ride at the ranch with us you will experience a wide variety of activities: working cattle, gathering cattle, cattle drives, working horses, horse drives, branding calves, mending fences, and our cowboys and cowgirls will teach you to rope. We offer the best horseback riding vacations in Montana. We are real, remote, quiet, and have endless awesome beautiful mountain vistas. We share with you real cattle work and real working cow horses to experience an amazing horseback riding vacation.
This year we will be doing a lot of horse related activities along with our regular cow work so come and join us for a week full of hands on cowboy activities. Saturday is our return back to Billings day when we can also visit several of the historic sites along the Big Horn Recreation Area which are: Lockhart Historic Ranch, Devils Canyon Overlook, Wild Mustang Museum.
The Dryhead Ranch is located on the Crow Indian Reservation and features one of the largest historic buffalo jumps in the United States. We also have a few Indian Pictographs on the canyon walls and lots of arrowheads and artifacts for the finding. We are required to honor a Federal non-alcohol ruling required on all reservation properties.
HORSE DRIVES:
In the spring our Horse Drive moves our riding horses to the ranch in Montana. We work with the mares during the second Horse Roundup week in the spring. One week a month during the summer we offer Mini-Horse Drives. During these weeks we move young colts in training and gather mares with baby colts to move them to fresh green pastures.
These mini horse drives are very popular as they are designed for beginning or intermediate riders to learn how to move horses. October finishes our Horse Roundup as we gather the mares, weanling colts and studs to draw the registration papers for that year and remove the studs. We leave the mares on winter pasture at the ranch for the winter and bring the colts to Wyoming for the winter. We trail our riding horses out to Wyoming in March to get brand inspections and health papers needed to go back to Montana in April.
CATTLE DRIVES:
Our winter pastures in Wyoming and our summer pastures in Montana make a real and authentic need to move cattle 50 miles from one place to the other. We trail cows and calves over the Old Sioux Trail stretching 50 miles through the Wild Horse range and into Montana's beautiful "Big Sky Country".
In the fall we trail just heifers back to Wyoming in October. The big herd is gathered and trailed in December.
Cattle drives are a great way to learn how to move cattle and to teach your horse to watch a cow. These drives are as easily accomplished by beginners as well as experienced riders.
RANCH WEEKS / COWBOY WEEKS:
Cowboy days are the most fun and the most work and the most real ranch activities we offer our guests. Our cowboy days start when our cattle drives are finished and the cows are at the ranch for us to take care of.
Our head cowboy will pick several great cow horses for you to ride during the week and you are taught how to saddle them each morning. When we ride out of the gate we never know what adventure awaits us. Some of these adventures will be to brand calves, gather cows or horses, wrangle in the cavvy horses in the early dawn. Jake trains 20 young colts each summer so we will move horses quite often. Our mare bands will be made up in June.
Many days are all day rides when you will take a lunch and eat out in the range. In the fall we gather all the cows so we can wean the calves and pregnancy test the cows. Each week we have strays to work out of our cows to return to their pastures. These weeks change every day with the need of the cattle and the land. Tin foil dinners are a great evening gathering and the Buffalo jump is a great place to visit history of 500 years ago.
Horseback riding vacations and cattle drive vacations in Montana exposes all of us to various types of weather, sun, wind, rain, mud, and snow. There will be days when we cannot ride for the safety of our horses as well as our guests. We reserve the right to make these decisions and/or changes when it is necessary.
WHAT TO BRING
We suggest that you bring clothes that will layer easily: long sleeved t-shirts,(we don't suggest spaghetti strap t-shirts, the sun is to intense) vests, heavy jackets, chinks or chaps, sweatshirts, caps to cover your ears, and at least two pair of waterproof gloves, wildrag or scarf, spurs, cowboy hat and of course, your camera with batteries.
Standard equipment is riding boots with a heel. We require appropriate boots for riding at the ranch. You may want to bring a comfortable walking shoe for around the ranch yard and slippers for going to the bathroom at night.
If you have a waterproof rain slicker, please bring it. It not only protects from rain but it is great for breaking the wind.
Dryhead Ranch has a small ranch store with items that we find most needed at the ranch in case you forget to pick them up: sunscreen, chapstick, hand warmers, gloves, slickers (no ponchos), pommel bags, chinks, cowboy hat, wildrags, stampede strings, belts, )S( belt buckles, boot socks, and several gift items for your return home.
Here you can find a detailed list of what to bring.
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We have been very fortunate to have had NBC, ESPN, National Geographic, and several TV stations come to our ranch and film what we do. We are pleased to announce, that we have appeared on several national networks as an episode of "A Ranch Story", which shares the rich history of the Dryhead Country. Dryhead Ranch was mentioned in an article in "Horse Illustrated" February 2007 for its authentic cowboy experience. We were also featured in the March 2007 issue of the "Cowboys and Indians" magazine about Horse drive vacation offered in the USA. In "Western Horseman" Calendar January 2008 we have our Dryhead Ranch fall 2007 Horse Drive picture. We were in the "Range Magazine" in the January 2009 issue. The Dryhead Ranch horse drive was mentioned and our picture was added. Dryhead Ranch Horse Drives were featured on the January calendar picture of the "Western Horseman Calendar 2010". We were featured in Rita's book published in 2010, written in French. She mentioned her Dryhead Ranch experience as a basis for her story.
Please call us or send an email to dhr@tctwest.net with any questions you might have
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(307) 272-6688 Iris (cell phone) (307) 548 - 6688 Office (307) 272-0523 Jennifer (cell phone) |
Come Ride With the Cowboys --- It will Change your Life.
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Dryhead Ranch, Montana ~ Office: 1062 Road 15 Lovell, WY 82431, USA, dhr@tctwest.net |
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Phone: 307 - 548 - 6688, Cell Phone 307 - 272 - 6688 Fax: 307 - 548 - 2322 |
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