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I just got some great photos from a wedding of former staff members, and it got me thinking. There are so many couples who met at Vista Verde as staff, who have now turned into wonderful marriages. What is it about this place? Between romantic honeymoon vacations, surprise engagement getaways and couples rekindling the…
Although we don’t have any guests around right now, the ranch is nothing but quiet these days. The off-season is a time for knocking out projects on the to-do list, cleaning up from the winter, gearing up for the summer, and taking a little time off too. This year, the off-season at our Colorado ranch…
One of the things many of us love about living in the Colorado Rockies is the seasons. Growing up in California, this was a fairly novel concept to me when I moved here in 1997. Among other things, what I have come to love about the seasons is that we get to shake up our…
Summer has arrived in Steamboat Springs and people are enjoying their vacations all over town. Just north of Steamboat Springs, at Vista Verde Guest Ranch, we are enjoying having a full house of guests who have chosen a family dude ranch vacation. Last week was our opening week, and it was a blast. We had…
Our winter season here in Colorado has come to an end. Each year around February 1, I wonder why are we closing a month earlier than the Steamboat Ski Resort? For Vista Verde, the spring break crowd has never been a big one, and our bookings just slow down in March enough that it doesn’t…
Melissa booked a reservation yesterday for a honeymoon vacation in the winter. The winter season is my favorite time for honeymooners. It's just perfect when the ranch is covered in snow and we are adults only. That magic combination happens for most of January and the first half of February. Maybe it's just because I…
If you want to provide the best dude ranch vacation to your guests, you have to start with the best dude ranch staff. Yesterday marked the start of our orientation weeks, and we are already off to the races on getting our crews dialed in on how to do their jobs with excellence! Typically, the…
Last week was a fun week here at Vista Verde. It started off with a 5 day horsemanship clinic for overnight guests and finished with a one day Reining and Ranch versatility clinic for locals. What is the difference? Well, they are very similar in many ways, but also very different. Obviously the 5 day…
Most mornings in the winter you’ll see our Bombardier MP+ out grooming the ski trails, piloted by Charlie Cammer. Although we don’t get Charlie out on skis much, he fully understands what makes a ski trail ideal and takes great pride in laying down the perfect courderoy for our cross-country skiers. On mornings like today,…
Our friends at Top50Ranches posted this on their blog, and we thought it would be helpful for all our guests getting ready for a horseback riding holiday at Vista Verde this summer! Horseback riding seems like such an elegant sport that it can easily fool people into thinking that getting on a horse’s back…