Vacations at the Wit's End usually include horseback riding since it's our specialty. We give every guest personalized attention no matter what their experience level on our horseback riding vacations. Our ranch utilizes 50-65 head of horses, so there's never a chance of being left out of any ride. The area our rides cover is approximately 1 million acres of the San Juan National Forest and 550 acres of private land. You choose between easy trail riding or more advanced mountain riding.
Riding is scheduled every day. Lengths of rides vary with your preference ranging from breakfast rides to lunch rides, one-hour riding to all-day breath taking mountain riding. Some of our mountain rides go to an elevation of 13,000 feet ending with a spectacular view of the Continental Divide!

Ages for Riding

Here at the Wit’s End Guest Ranch and Resort we encourage families to do things together. However, for safety reasons children must be 7 or older to go on trail rides. For children ages 6 and under we offer pony rides at the ranch daily. We will be happy to shuttle any child to young to ride (or adult that doesn’t want to ride) to our breakfast meadow, overnight camp site, and to the kids hide-out so everyone can enjoy and participate in the fun.

Gymkhana

Gymkhana games are a variety of games that can be used to help riders from beginners to advanced learn horsemanship and valuable skills while having fun! Once a week, we schedule Gymkhana events in our arena. This is an opportunity for the guests, adults and children alike, to apply what they have learned for the week in competition with the other guests and even our wranglers.

Cattle Sorting

Cattle sorting is one of the most common tasks performed on a working cattle ranch. Cowboys have to sort off cows for a number of reasons such as branding, weaning, castrating and vaccinating. However, like many necessary tasks on a ranch, cattle sorting has now become a sport with perfected techniques and of course bragging rights by the winners.

Here at Wit’s End we number the cows and then your team will sort them according to how the announcer calls them out. The object of the games is to sort the cows out of their herd and place them in an assigned  pen.  You may be thinking “I can barley ride a horse, much less do that!” But, that’s what were hear for, to teach you! It’s an activity we offer twice a week and you won’t want to miss it!

Lessons (additional cost)

For those of you who would like a little practice we offer private individual lessons with an experienced instructor. Also offered is time in our regulation rodeo arena to practice with a wrangler on any aspect of riding that you wish to master.