Prices include: Lodging in bunkhouse, 3 home cooked meals, cowboy horses, tack, good saddles, riding instructions, and cattle to work on about 32,000 acres of land.
Private cabins with bathrooms are available at an additional charge.

Available:
Two cabins with private bathrooms (additional $200 for married couple and $150 for each single person).
The bunkhouse has seven private queen size rooms with two semi-private bathrooms.

We offer a 5% discount on all second week reservations and a 5% discount for all returning guests.
Additional days are extra and we suggest a 15% gratuity.

RANCH TRANSFER:
Our pickup service, on the date of your arrival, will be at 4:00 in the afternoon in Billings, Montana at either the Airport, the Dude Rancher Lodge or the Best Western Motel. We will return you back to Billings on the next Saturday by 2:00 PM. There is a $125. per person transfer charge from Billings to the Ranch and back to Billings. This charge is not included in the cost of the vacation.

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.

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 attraction, dates or activities, due to unforeseen circumstances. However, substitutions of a similar kind will be arranged. These circumstances will include: unfavorable weather conditions, range or pasture conditions, insufficient bookings or Federal or State land management changes.

Schedule 2013: April 14 - 20, 2013 Horse Drive from Wyoming to Ranch Apr. 21 - 27, 2013 Horse Roundup at the Ranch Apr 28 - May 4, 2013 Cattle Drive: Trailing cow/calf pairs from Wyoming May 5 - 11, 2013 Cattle Drive: Trailing cow/calf pairs from Wyoming May 12 - May 18, 2013 Cattle Drive: Trailing remainder of cow/calf pairs from Wyoming May 19 - May 25, 2013 Working Activities and Experiences on our Ranch: Gathering, sorting, branding, trailing, adding bulls May 26 - June 1, 2013 Working Activities and Experiences on our Ranch: Finishing above activities and possible trailing to Fishbird June 2 - 8, 2013 Working Activities and Experiences on our Ranch: Possible gathering, branding, sorting and trailing to Elk Ridge Mt. June 9 - 15, 2013 Working Activities and Experiences on our Ranch: Making sure all of the above is finished June 16 - 22, 2013 Horse Round ups: Arranging Mare Bands, adding Stallions June 23 - 29, 2013 Possible week-end covered wagon camp (contact us for more info). Family reunions could also be organized on this week. June 30 - July 6, 2013 Working Activities and Experiences on our Ranch: In our summer weeks we offer many riding hours of gathering cattle, sorting cows, trailing both cows and horses as we move from pasture to pasture and mountain to mountain. We are riding on 32,000 acres of native grassland pastures, including mountains and canyons with awesome beautiful scenery on every ride. ur cowboys are skilled in helping to improve your horsemanship. Labor Day weekend there is a neighborhood covered wagon trek that our guests can participate in. Our cowboys break and train our own young horses. Our guests are welcome to ask questions and learn from cowboys, who ride and train horses for a living. July 7 - 13, 2013 July 14 - 20, 2013 July 21 - 27, 2013 July 28 - Aug. 3, 2013 Aug. 4 - 10, 2013 Aug. 11 - 17, 2013 Aug. 18 - 24, 2013 Aug. 25 - 31, 2013 Sept. 1 - 7, 2013 Working Activities and Experiences on our Ranch: September starts our fall cattle work. We ride outside our ranch borders to bring back lost cattle so we can wean the calves and pregnancy test the cows. After the calves are weaned we put cows on pasture that is further away and harder to graze making longer riding days. Any missing calves that are found have to be brought in to wean. There are heifers that are also gathered and counted to keep our cattle home. Grass is getting short so horses also need to be rotated and moved. Sept. 8 - 14, 2013 Sept. 15 - 21, 2013 Sept. 22 - 28, 2013 Cattle Drive: Gathering and Trailing from Little Mountain for weaning Sept. 29 - Oct. 5, 2013 Cattle Drive: Gathering and Trailing from Little Mountain for weaning Oct. 6 - 12, 2013 Working Activities and Experiences on our Ranch: Fall Cattle Work 2 Oct. 13 - 19, 2013 Oct. 20 - 26, 2013 Oct. 27 - Nov. 2, 2013 Cattle Drive to Wyoming (conditions permitting) Nov. 3 - 9, 2013 Horse Round up at the Ranch

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 when it is cold, and at least two pair of waterproof gloves, wildrag or scarf, spurs, cowboy hat to protect your ears, neck and head 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 and keeping you warm. 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, kids shirts, sweatshirts and toys and several gift items for your return home.

Here you can find a detailed list of what to bring.