well, this place was overall a disappointment. They do guided trail rides here and there are trails, but they do not allow boarders to ride on the trails. We also weren't allowed to use the arena or the round pen. So, our horses were basically stuck in their corrals the entire stay. We would take them out and walk them on their lead ropes and let them eat grass for about 30 minutes in the afternoon.
On the plus side, it rained most of our stay so we wouldn't have been able to really ride any way.
The horses have very secure corrals with a small shelter. They are a decent size.
The ranch tells us that they will clean out the stalls for us, but they haven't cleaned our stalls - or as far as we can tell - any stalls.
Also, there is a hose in the barn across the way, but it is too short to reach our stalls. We asked for another hose so we could refill the buckets, but that never happened. So, Ari is filling small buckets and refilling our water without a hose.
We have full hook-up and the WIFI is pretty good.
The campground is pretty spacious. There are two different playgrounds for the kids.
There is a laundry. We attempted to do laundry here, but none of the dryers work. Ari spent five dollars trying to get our clothes dry before he gave up. We ended up putting our wet clothes into laundry bags and driving them into town to a laundromat. It cost another $1.50 to actually dry the clothes.
Lots of murals and cute art throughout the campground
There are bison out in the back acres of the campgrounds. We are told that the bison are the reason we can't ride on their trails, but that is a bullshit reason. We rode with bison on Antelope Island in Utah. We have ridden through open pastures with cattle. We don't chase the critters. We leave them alone and they leave us alone. Plus, they take trail rides out into the same area and the people on the trail rides are total newbies on a horse.
There are several newborn foals, which are quite cute. There are also goats, ostriches, and peacocks. My horse does not like the ostriches. So, if they had ostriches out where the bison are, I would agree with their policy about not riding out there.
We did a walking tour of downtown Cheyenne. The walking tour was like this:
Walk to the corner of 15th and Pioneer. If you look to the west corner, you will see the location where the very first bank was built by So and So in 1896. It burned down in 1904. Here is a picture of what it looked like.
Walk a block west. If you look in the middle of the block, there is the location of a saloon where Doc Holiday played cards. The saloon was demolished in 1934. Here is a picture of what it looked like.
I think Cheyenne was doing their best imitation of a Southerner giving directions - go down this street, turn right where the gas station used to be, keep going until you pass the corner where the bank was..
Downtown also featured several large cowboy boots which were quite cool.
Tomorrow we head to Curt Gowdy State Park. The weather is clearing just in time for us to be able to ride.
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