A Week at the Ranch in Video

25 Stories for 25 Years

Good morning Rainbow Trout Ranch Family! I’m sitting near the fireplace in our lodge library and hoping that the warmth from the flames will ward away this early morning chill. Resting on the table in front of me is just one of many assorted coffee mugs used by the Rainbow Trout Ranch staff. It’s an […]

What if I Don’t Ride at a Colorado Dude Ranch?

Many folks ask “What if I don’t ride but my family wants to go to a dude ranch?”   Here at our dude ranch in southern Colorado we often have guests who don’t choose to ride.  Sometimes they can’t for physical reasons, sometimes they just prefer not to, but either way they still have a wonderful […]

Colorado Dude Ranch: Five Ways to Choose a Guest Ranch for Your Family Vacation

A Colorado dude ranch is a great way to get your family outdoors, hopefully far away away from technology and enjoying some spectacular scenery from the back of a horse. But choosing a guest ranch can be a challenge, especially when each ranch looks more perfect than the last. Here are five ways to help […]

Rocky Mountain Adventures on our Colorado Dude Ranch

Here in the southern Colorado Rockies we’ve been closed for the dude ranch season for just over a month.  In that time we’ve  shut down the grand old Lodge and all the cabins, said goodbye to our great staff, remodeled the last two cabins that needed living areas and fireplaces, pulled shoes and trimmed feet on the […]

Colorado Dude Ranch Finds Success with Hydroponic Hay

With 130 horses at our southern Colorado dude ranch, you can imagine we go through alot of hay since the terrain here is spectacular, but not conducive to enough grazing to support that many.  So our hay bills run high and we are always on the lookout for creative ways to care for our herd. […]

The Wonderful Life of a Dude Rancher

We live a very wonderful life here on our Colorado dude ranch, the Rainbow Trout Ranch.  We’ve been doing it for twenty-one years, although my husband David and I worked on other ranches for a few years before his parents and he decided to make a full fledged dude ranch out of what used to […]

September 2014 Here we come

    I haven’t made any blog entries for a while as my next trip to paradise (aka Rainbow Trout Ranch) seemed so far away, but now that we have the flights all booked up for next fall (my American is improving, I remembered not to say ‘autumn’) it seems closer. Yes, September 2014, Here […]

Top 10 Reasons to go to a Colorado Dude Ranch, not on a Cruise!

Given the recent news stories about cruises, we decided to add our two cents as to why a Colorado dude ranch, like Rainbow Trout Ranch, is a much better choice for your vacation than a cruise… 10. We don’t ever need to wait for tugboats! 9. We don’t have sewer issues that you have to […]

Dude Ranch “Super” Marketing

Like most dude ranchers, I think about marketing at our Colorado guest ranch. A lot. Between all the blogging, face booking, tweeting, pinning—or is it pinteresting?!—posting, meta tags, YouTube videos, keywords and goodness knows what else, my mind is a jumble of noise, rather like a casino when you first walk in.   With the […]