"Live the Legend....be a Cowboy", realize the child in yourself!
Ride our trails on your own horse year-round. With few exceptions, we do not limit our boarders from exploring Vel Terra Ranch or the surrounding country backroads. While we have several variations to our trails, we encourage you to explore and make your own. As long as riders respect nature and a few guiding rules, you will find our terrain a mixture of hollows, timber and rolling hills both exciting and challenging. So let your imagination fly and make it an exciting adventure.
We believe horse ownership should be an enjoyable and affordable experience, that's why we do everything possible to make it so. Pasture boarding (grass kept) is an excellent system in which the horse lives in a comparatively natural state. The horse keeps fit and healthy and maintains an easy-going disposition.
The horses are "at grass" during spring and summer and roam very large grassy pastures with rolling terrain which are nicely shaded. During winter the horses are given hay and have access to heated waterers.
Horse Boarding:
Vel Terra Ranch is the perfect place to take a year-round break from your regular routine. Now, no matter what your favorite time of the year is for horseback riding, when your ride is over kick back at "Cowboy Corner." Built with our boarders in mind, Cowboy Corner is a cozy sit down snack bar with beverages, ice cream items, and snacks for sale. But it also maintains a library of reference books and periodicals on anything you want to know about horses, instructional videos, and movies all at no fee to the boarder. In addition to those amenities there is also a shower ($) with hot water and heated during the winter. Cowboy Corner is also used as our camping registration area as well.
Basic Boarding Fees:
Horse Boarding -- Pasture kept onlyYear-around - Per horse$125.00 per month6-Month - Per horse $175.00 per monthOther services offered and available to boarders:
+Miles of trails+Hitching rails+Round pen for training +Horse wash area+Picnic table +Fire Ring for boarder campfires+96' x 176' outdoor arena +Personalized care ($)+Slivers of hay ($) +Sick stall w/private paddock ($)+Sick stall ($) +Tack Storage ($)Call Sharon for more details or request a boarding package.815-858-3866Tack Storage Stalls-2 saddles per stall
Per month$ 15.00Horse Trailer Storage
Per month $ 25.00Happy Trails to You!
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"Like human beings, horses are all individuals with singular personalities, their own virtures and their own faults. We become bound to them for their beauty, their eccentricities, their heart and the love they so often return to us." Lana Slaton, Horses in History
