horseback riding

HORSEBACK RIDING

explore southern arizona’s unique high desert on horseback

If you’re an experienced rider or never been on a horse, we’ve got the ride for you. Our wranglers will match you with a horse appropriate to your experience level and lead you on scenic rides through sandy washes, over rocky terrain, past incredible rock formations and across lush desert grasslands. For more experienced riders, Fast Rides are offered a few times per week, where loping and trotting are incorporated where the terrain allows. Lessons are also available.

We ride morning and afternoon except for Sundays when the horses get the afternoon off. New guests will take a slow walking ride first, and then can qualify for Fast Rides if you demonstrate you can safely control your horse.

Horseback riding is available to children 5 years and older. Children 8 years and older may qualify for trotting and loping during rides (fast rides).

Two riders stand under a Saguaro cactus in the Southern Arizona Sonoran Desert.
A single horseback rider stands in the high desert of Southern Arizona.
Two horses stand in a pasture at Rancho de la Osa.
Two riders on a dude ranch vacation at Rancho de la Osa.
Two riders on horseback in the high desert grasslands of Southern Arizona.
Two riders in a sandy wash during a vacation at Rancho de la Osa.
A line of horseback riders in the high desert during a ride at Rancho de la Osa.
A single rider stands next to an ocotillo in the Southern Arizona Sonoran Desert.
Horseback riders weave through Ocotillo in the Buenos Aires Wildlife Refuge.
Riders in a sandy wash in Southern Arizona during a dude ranch vacation.
A line of horseback riders along the U.S.-Mexico border during a dude ranch vacation.
A line of horseback riders in the tall grasslands of Southern Arizona.
Horseback riding at Rancho de la Osa.
Horseback riders in front of Baboquivari Peak during a dude ranch vacation.
A line of riders with the Baboquivari mountain range in the background.
A single horse and rider stand in the tall grasses at Rancho de la Osa.
A group of horseback riders in the Sonoran Desert during a dude ranch vacation.
A horse stands in a retaque corral at Rancho de la Osa.
Dude ranch guests ride horses in a sandy wash at Rancho de la Osa.
A group of horseback riders during an Arizona dude ranch vacation.
A single horseback rider in the Arizona desert.
A line of horseback riders along the U.S. mexico border during a dude ranch vacation.
A single horseback rider stands overlooking a vista with Baboquivari Peak in the background.
Horseback riders in the desert at Rancho de la Osa.
A cowgirl on a dude ranch vacation in a sandy wash.
A horseback rider in the sunset at Rancho de la Osa.
A single cowgirl rides through the desert at Rancho de la Osa.
A saddled horse stands on an Arizona desert trail.
A group of horseback riders with yellow wildflowers on the desert floor.
A group of dude ranch guests ride through Ocotillo in the Buenos Aires Wildlife Refuge.