#DUDE RANCH MANUAL#

But then, what’s the fun in that? For the most authentic cowboy experience-including roping and sorting cattle-plan to be there in the summer. Every day at adults-only Rowse’s is different-and cowboys and cowgirls lead their own charge.

#DUDE RANCH MANUAL#

“We don’t expect them to do the manual labor but want every guest to experience and enjoy the riding and cattle work we do.”Īccommodations include log bunk houses or the main lodge, where all six rooms are appointed with Western design and handmade headboards, and visitors enjoy home-cooked (and beef-heavy) meals. “Guests join us in our everyday life,” Tammy Rowse told Cowboys and Indians. Guests are assigned horses at check in (the ranch has an award-winning quarter horse breeding program), and then participate in several hours of dude ranch activities every day, including horseback riding, driving cattle, roping, checking pastures and sorting livestock. They share that experience at Rowse’s 1+1 Ranch in Burwell, about 200 miles west of Omaha in the Sandhills, where Rowse family members Jerry, Kyle and Tammy run the more than 7,000-acre working ranch and host vacation stays. The Rowse family has been ranching in Nebraska since 1884. Now, he explained, it’s “Yellowstone” that’s contributing to record-breaking seasons.įrom Nebraska to Montana, these six dude ranches offer a chance at being a real live ranch hand. One measurable effect of the limelight cast on the nearly 3,500-square-mile park by both the historic anniversary and the show is an increased interest in dude ranch vacations.īryce Street, executive director of the Dude Ranchers’ Association, told Global Traveler in 2020 that City Slickers, the 1991 American West comedy starring Billy Crystal, was “a huge boost to dude ranching,” when it hit theaters 30 years ago. This year, Yellowstone National Park turned 150 years old, and to add to the luster of its sesquicentennial, “Yellowstone,” the Paramount Network hit television drama starring Kevin Costner as rancher John Dutton, was renewed for a sure-to-be exhilarating fifth season.

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