where do you get to ride?

I can ride around the field that are near my home. The city put in an arena about 1/2 mile away that I can ride over and use. Their is an old rail road right a way trail about a block from my home. But I rarely use any of them.

I live in Utah and over 70% of the state is public lands. So I load up the trailer and head for the mountains. I can be on a mountain trail in 5-10 minutes or drive a couple of hours to some place different.

Saturday evenings ride

Well, the school I work, and live at, has roughly 90 acres, and I usually ride on about half of it. I also have access to other areas, just off campus, but haven't gone yet, because time won't allow me too... Basically, I could ride all day, and not cover any of the same terrain if I wanted; couldn't ask for anything better than that if you're a trail rider!

Wow, I'm jealous! I really don't have any nice place to ride. When we used to board our horses we lived in a very un-horsey town and boarded on a air force base that had 5 miles of trails which where nice but got old really fast. They also had two roundpins and an outdoor arena. We moved to about 45 minutes away to a small town where lots of people have horses (and we now have our horses at home- the only reason we moved) but honestly we haven't really found a place to ride yet. Their are some trails but they are all posted, I rode on one the other day because it's a tree companys land but I still shouldn't be on their land .

At my sleep away camp, we have TONS of trails and across the street there's a gazillion (exaggerating xD) cow fields that another guy owns and lets us ride in. :)

We live on 16 acres of pasture and farm, and the family owns an additional 40 acres of sand dunes and virgin forest that's 3 miles away. I have permission to travel through the fields and forests for most of the way there with a short 1/4 mile of road riding. From there, I can continue with some of the other neighbors trails that will take me over the mile to get to Lake Michigan, with one of the few open beaches that horses are not banned. Some of this is in locked gates that only my family has the key, so it's pretty private. We also will ride with other neighbors and many of the local 'vacationers' have given us permission to pass, if nothing else, just because they like to see the horses go past. There are also several public trails within 30 miles that we occasionally ride. I don't like to ride anywhere I have to trailer to most of the time though. I'd rather ride there, and make a weekend out of it. lol.

I am so blessed here with places to ride. We live in the Daniel Boone National Forest and we have about 50 acres, mostly wooded mountainside (the trails are all uphill on the way out, all downhill on the way back, lol), but it borders a 26,000 acre game reserve that is full of trails. We can ride for days and camp anytime. I can also ride on any of our neighbors' land - everyone on my road is related (except us) and most of the property here is inherited "family land" so people are pretty generous about it. I'm currently "boarding" in a neighbor's pasture and can use their barn for free. Truly, I never thought we'd own horses, but with so many convenient places to ride here, we'd be crazy not to.

When I grow up I want to visit Painted Horse and ride Utah.

We ride in and around Yosemite for our forest riders.


We also have permission to ride three local ranches the smallest at around 1,800 acres. There is also a few easements through ranchs to follow the old stage line, but that is mostly back dirt roads

We are horribly fortunate as well. Where I board, we are across the street (and half a soybean field) away from a 2000 acre park with hordes of trails. Including a 1 hour, 2 hour, and 3 hour loop that we can take. Directly off the property we have a "Winter trail" that runs along the edge of the fields, and through some woods that are accessible in the winter.

The Flinthills in Kansas. Very large pastures, I have no idea how big they are, really big.

In the fall and spring I run the woods beside our place. We have about 15 miles of trails through them and I can make a big 2 hour circle. Summers I run the green belts and parks in town. I load him on the trailer, trailer 5 miles to a large mall, unload and ride a 12 plus mile circuit all on grass and trails.
In the winter the large network of snowmobile trails cross the corner of our land and I pick the trail up and head north or south for any distance you want. You could go 1000 miles if you choose. They are endless.
Rainy wet times are spent running the shoulder of our highways, the footing is great, the horse is fearless of traffic and again unlimited mileage is available.
You need varity or the trails become boring.
Also in the fall when the fields are harvested I can run anywhere. We have very few fences in the country so other then fenced pastures the country is wide open.