Whispering Willows Ranch, near Steamboat Springs, Colorado, is a working ranch focused on high-level working cow horses. It offers full-care boarding with indoor and outdoor arenas, training programs, breeding, lessons and clinics, alongside beef sales and hay production.
Gratitude Ranch in Elbert, Colorado is a 40-acre horse ranch offering retirement board and a small boutique-style breeding program. Its site features the Holsteiner C-line mare Veritas as a breeding prospect, and describes quality-over-quantity care.
Spirit Ranch JSP in Parker, Colorado offers equine facilitated learning, equine grief facilitation, wellness sessions and youth beginner Western riding lessons. Founder Pam Sippel is certified through the HERD Institute after a 38-year career in education.
DEKO Ranch in Hudson, Colorado, formerly Clappsaddle Farms, is a full-service horse boarding facility with a large roping arena, a round pen, an indoor arena and creek-side acreage. It also offers horse training and riding lessons, plus weddings and glamping accommodation.
Elevate Ranch in Bennett, Colorado, formerly Bar Double J Ranch, hosts canine and equine events, clinics and competitions, rents its facility and offers horse boarding. Boarders get covered or indoor/outdoor stalls, twice-daily hay, and access to indoor and outdoor arenas, a water treadmill and an electric walker.
Double D Ranch in Parker, Colorado is a privately owned horse boarding facility run by Derald Shaw and family with a natural horsemanship approach. It offers 24/7 turnout or stalls with runs and has a large indoor arena for the winter months.
Little Haven Ranch, LLC in Colorado breeds and sells Kentucky and Rocky Mountain Gaited Horses, with stud service from the stallions Country Doc and Zeus's Black Lightning. It lists foals, mares, stallions, trail horses and rescue horses for sale, offers horse boarding, and runs a therapy and children's outreach program with rescued horses. Horses for sale.
Eagle's Nest Ranch in Elizabeth, Colorado is a Christian non-profit that serves veterans, first responders and family members through equine programs such as Healing Horses for the Armed Forces. Sessions are requested through its website.
Graceful Oaks Youth Ranch in Fort Lupton, Colorado is a non-profit youth ranch founded in 2015 that offers animal-assisted education. It runs weekly 50-minute horsemanship and riding lessons, camps and empowerment sessions with horses and other animals.
Rancho Bella Rosa in Firestone, Colorado is an equestrian boarding facility on nearly 14 acres with heated indoor stalls, outdoor runs, three arenas and wash bays. It has trainers on site, hosts events, and is owned and operated by Joe and Arlene Castorena.
Brooke Lyn's Minis at Sleepy Hollow Ranch in Boulder, Colorado offers miniature horseback riding lessons for children aged 1 to 6, miniature horse cart driving, mini camps and parties. Retired miniature show horses with AMHA and AMHR titles serve as the lesson horses.
Cowley Performance Horses is a horse training operation in Temecula, California, run by Craig and Rosie Cowley at Tucalota Creek Ranch. It offers full-time and part-time training, lessons, 90-day colt starting, and weekly group lessons, clinics and shows.
Oceanview Ranch Horses is the Western riding program at Portuguese Bend Riding Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. It offers private and group lessons, leasing, training and showing, with ranch riding and gymkhana instruction.
Stepping Stone Sporthorses offers horse and rider training with René Frilot in Southern California. Encore Ranch also provides mobile Equipulse magnetic therapy for horses and small animals.
Kelly Saldivar Performance Horses offers horseback riding lessons for all levels and ages, with lesson horses available. Classes cover western pleasure, horsemanship, trail riding and trail obstacles, and there is a training program for owners' horses.
Silver Lining Ranch is a horse training and riding center in Agoura Hills, California, run by professional trainer and instructor Angie LoCascio. It offers western riding lessons, horse training, leasing and horse sales.
The Healing Equine Ranch is a 501(c)(3) non-profit sanctuary in the Santa Monica Mountains, founded by Kiki Ebsen. It gives lifelong care to a herd of rescued horses and offers experiential learning, workshops and private sessions with them.
The Reset Ranch is a five-acre ranch on the Santa Rosa Plateau in Murrieta, California, offering equine assisted learning programs for youth and adults. It runs one-on-one, group and team programs.
Rancho Sea Air is an ocean-front riding school in Malibu, California, founded in 1941 by Egon Merz. It offers lessons from ages one to adult, camps, birthday parties, events and boarding.
Connemara Ranch is a horse ranch in Malibu, California, offering horse riding lessons, private ocean view trail rides, equine therapy and equine coaching.
Brave Grace Ranch offers trauma-informed equine facilitated therapy at a ranch on Trabuco Road, California. Programs address trauma, anxiety, relationships and addictions, with community care groups for foster youth and others.
Oaks Restorative Ranch is a 501(c)(3) non-profit in Ventura County, California, pairing horse rescue, rehabilitation and care with mental health programs for kids, teens and adults. It lists horses needing homes.
Pollyrich Farms in Solvang, California, is a breeding and embryo transfer facility offering artificial insemination, foaling, frozen semen storage and mare and stallion services for every breed. It also provides rehabilitation, lay-up and retirement care.
Le Cheval Sport Horses is a USHJA-certified hunter, jumper and equitation training and riding program at Peacock Hill Equestrian Center in Orange, California. Head trainer Lauren Cirignano-Mitchell offers training, lessons and young horse development.
