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Wild Wind Ranch Oak Hills is a community ranch in Oak Hills, California, run as a nonprofit. Its main offering is horseback riding lessons for riders from age 2 and for adults, booked by appointment. The ranch also runs therapeutic riding, homeschool riding programs, trail rides, horse summer camps and pony parties. Visitors can also meet and feed the ranch animals at no cost.
Palomas de Rancho Jiménez in the San Gabriel Valley, California teaches horseback riding lessons for 50 dollars an hour, including beginner riding, escaramuza charra training and adaptive riding for children with special needs. The site is in English and Spanish.
Lazy T Ranch at Leona Valley, California has been owned by the Tremblay family at the same site for over 37 years. It offers horse boarding with two arenas and over 80 miles of trails, riding lessons, horse sales and leasing, and a western town for parties, weddings and filming.
Shamrock T Ranch at Agua Dulce, California is a small family barn run by Craig and Cindy Tognazzini, known as The Backyard Barrel Trainer. It offers boarding in box stalls, pipe stalls and pasture with direct access to Pacific Crest Trails, riding lessons, rental horses and a Horses For Sale/Lease page.
5 Bell Ranch LLC is a family-run horse operation northeast of Denver run by Jason and Melissa Bell, built on performance pedigrees. It offers full-care training and lessons, and its site has Sale Horses, Foals and Resident Stallion pages. Horses for sale.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stoney Point Ranch is a full-service equestrian center in Chatsworth, California, near Rocky Peak trails. It offers horse boarding with twice-daily feeding, western lessons from age five and beginner to intermediate English lessons.
Caboray Ranch is a boarding and training facility in French Valley near Temecula, California, specializing in Arabian horses under owner and trainer Brianne Yhlen. It offers lessons, day camps, training, shows, and a new show barn and mare motel.
The Ramsey Ranch in Norco, California, has offered horse boarding since 2005. It also has a pony club and lessons and training with Taylor James Equestrians in western pleasure, trail, ranch riding and hunter/jumper.
Heaven's Ranch in Norco, California, is a horse rescue that also offers monthly and overnight boarding, a lesson program and horse training. The site lists rescue horses, foster and adoption horses and a Horses 4 Sale page.
Twenty Nine Oaks Ranch in Agoura Hills, California, offers horseback riding lessons, equine therapy sessions, and special events and workshops. The ranch was bought in 1998 and emphasizes natural horsemanship.
Carousel Ranch at Santa Clarita, California is a non-profit offering equestrian therapy for children and young adults with special needs. Its programs include a Ready to Work vocational program, volunteer opportunities and a tack shack, and horses can be sponsored.
Agua Dulce Canyon Ranch in Los Angeles County, California is a working ranch offering private and group riding lessons for ages five and up, full-care horse boarding with paddocks and daily turnout, and guided canyon trail rides.
