Luxury Dude Ranch in Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Just imagine that you are this guy who owns a really cool ranch in Colorado. You’ve come out to visit for the weekend and are enjoying a beautiful spring morning outside on the deck with your dogs. As you brush these beautiful white dogs, who on this day have decided to stay close by and…
Thank you Chris for this touching note. He also took some amazing shots of the horses running in one morning. Good afternoon from hot and humid South Florida! I really wanted to reach out to you and your staff to express my heartfelt thanks for our vacation of a lifetime! After 14 years of working…
I drove into the ranch this morning and couldn’t find the front door. Yes, you read that right. The front door isn’t there anymore. In the midst of all our upgrades and additions, what used to be the front entry is now part of the expanded kitchen and dishroom area. The new main entrance will…
Stubborn yet glorious fifty degree weather. Muddy pathways. A lively gushing river. And horse manure land mines defrosting all over the winter pasture… smells like Spring is in the air – that's the best at a dude ranch in Colorado! …And a great hush fell over the crowd as the last of the our dude…
While the innards of the Dining room, Kitchen and Staff room are being ripped apart and put back together, the construction on the New Lodge and Indoor Arena are chugging along. Closing down for the season along with the beautiful weather have helped the process along. This week, all the windows and doors in the…
Guest Post My birthday started out like any other day except that I found a unexpected surprise awaiting me in the barn stall, beneath my apartment in the Indoor Arena—a cream colored newly born foal! MJ gave birth in the middle of the night two weeks ago and produced a beautiful baby girl, named Bailey,…
As our last guests checked out yesterday, the demolition party began. While adding on to the Main Lodge, we also are giving the dining room a facelift, and re-arranging the kitchen and office space. So, within hours of the final departure of the season pictures had been removed from walls, wallpaper pulled down, trim removed,…
Guest Post I never got to interact with horses growing up, so for all I knew they were like any other pet– intriguing at first but tend to lose their shiny-new-toy sparkle as owners forget to invest relationally as life gets busy. My interaction with horses started over a year ago when I had the opportunity…
Valentine’s Day is always a romantic day at Vista Verde, but this year it was even more than normal. Former staff member Ben Gammie brought his girlfriend Brooke out for a couple nights. On Valentine’s Day, our crew of cupids set up the Homestead cabin with rose petals, champagne, strawberries dipped in chocolate and a…
I’ve been trying to keep you all updated on what’s going on with the Lodge addition, but haven’t given you an update on the indoor riding arena. That’s partly because there wasn’t a whole lot to look at until recently. There was a lot of dirt being moved, and a lot of steel supports being…
