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Game Creek Ranch is excited to host your group for a full day Ranch experience, half-day Ranch experience in either the morning or afternoon or evening dinner experience.

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Game Creek Ranch offers Ranch ToursRanch Tours

Experience life on Game Creek Ranch and see how we’re passionately preserving the Western spirit. Through one of our comprehensive tours you have many opportunities to learn how a “working” ranch operates. Listed below are our tour options and their contents. We truly look forward to meeting you and showing you the “ropes” of down home Ranch living!

Morning Feed Tour: 7:30 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Rise and shine the old fashioned way with a nice hearty cowboy breakfast. Ranch work begins with the rising sun. After breakfast you will be led on a tour of the facilities and introduced to the working staff members who await your questions and are ready to assist you throughout the duration of your tour.

Chores include driving our monster John Deere tractor and dragging the arena, feeding the livestock, and preparing for the training and lessons of the day. Help us to gather fresh eggs from our chicken coop. Just as people have different dietary needs, so do horses, cows, sheep, dogs, cats, chickens, goats and pigs.

On this tour you are invited to become an active part in this every-day morning ritual, from graining and slopping to the turn-out of the horses. The daily horse turn-out is a unique routine where ranch hands work as a team to run and corral the horses. Although every day is different on a ranch, you can witness how some practices must be done routinely so that the animals can actually gain comfort and confidence. While helping the ranch hands save time in their chores, the animals are asked to use their own intelligence to assist in the chore.

Be prepared to be a part of this most exciting and educational time on a ranch. Listed below is your event breakdown.

7:30 - 8:45 a.m. Breakfast served with coffee and juice.
8:45 - 9 a.m. Guided tour of the facilities.
8:45 - 9 a.m. Morning Feed as guided by the Barn Manager.
9:30 - 10 a.m. Grooming and Shoeing 101
10 - 11 a.m. Seminar: Animal Nutrition and its Importance focus on Livestock.

 

Meet the Instructors Tour: 12 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Here at Game Creek Ranch we offer many disciplines in equestrian study. You have the opportunity to learn about everything from Calf Roping to Dressage. We are able to offer this due to our amazing and talented instructors. The Meet the Instructors Tour allows you to get to know our instructors and learn what qualifications and experiences go into being an equestrian instructor.

Our state-of-the-art sound system allows instructors to use headsets and you to shadow them from a distance. Be a part of what goes into our lesson and training programs including ground and under saddle work. Follow the thought process of the instructor while understanding the psychology of the horse.

Listed below is your event breakdown.

12 - 12:30 p.m. Video: Equestrian Disciplines: Picking The Right One For You
12:30  - 1:30 p.m. Meet The Instructors
1:30 - 2 p.m. Grooming and Tacking 101
2 - 2:45 p.m. A Lesson in Lessons: Witness a play by play of what happens during a training session.
2:45 - 3 p.m. Question and Answers

 

Evening Feed Tour: 4 p.m. – 7 p.m.

The sun has gone to bed and so must the horses, but not before they are fed. Here at Game Creek we believe that a happy horse is one well cared for, and for that reason we only use the finest feed available. We invite you to partake in the nightly ritual from graining and slopping to calling forth the horses. We also invite you to wrap up your evening with a whiskey and some grub in a true cowboy tradition. Or if you prefer, we can prepare hors d’ouvres and cocktails. Listed below is your event breakdown.

4 - 5 p.m. Seminar: Animal Nutrition and its importance. Focus on maladies and ailments associated with poor nutrition.
5  - 6 p.m. Pamplona meets Game Creek Ranch. Assist in the feeding of the animals and witness the running of the horses!
6 - 7 p.m. Wind down with some drinks and appetizers as you mingle with our staff. Feel free to ask questions, look around, and make yourself at home.

 

The Deluxe Tour: 7:30 a.m. – 7 p.m.

The Deluxe Tour here at Game Creek allows you the opportunity of spending the day here on this special parcel of land. You will learn the essentials of what is needed to run a ranch from sun up to sun down. The great thing about this tour is that, as we all know, things are always changing. Each new day on the ranch is a new set of circumstances. You will be immersed in a hands-on, down-and-dirty educational experience in the art of running a ranch.

For the duration of the day, you will be able to have an adopted horse to learn from and to create a trusting bond with a magnificent animal. With your companion, you will learn natural horsemanship techniques from the ground and transfer your newfound respect while in the saddle in a lesson. You will also be able to learn about and practice simple veterinary vital sign checks on your horse including a check of the respiratory rate, heart rate, hydration levels using their gums to check the capillary refill time or the pinch test, gauging horse’s intestinal sounds, and taking their temperature. Instructors and vet techs go over common health issues in horses and simple ways to prevent them. You will also watch as our Ferrier trims and shoes your horse, sizing the shoe to the horse based on measurements of the horses hoof and the specific needs of that horse. Your experience will include memorabilia of you and your horse, including the health records of your new friend based on your findings.

This tour includes all of the highlights from Morning, Instructor, and Evening tours as well as an hour break for lunch. Meals will be provided by Game Creek Ranch. We ask to be notified in advance of all dietary allergies/specifications. Thanks for being a part of the magic that happens here. We hope you take with you that same magic along with many treasured memories.

Facilities Include:

  • Main Homestead
  • Guest House
  • Indoor Barn with 27 13’ x 13’ stalls filled with horses
  • Attached Indoor Arena
  • Goat/ Sheep Barn with paddock
  • Chicken coup with paddock
  • 10-horse/pony paddocks of varying size
  • 13-acre field for the general herd of horses


We are happy to customize your day!