where do you get to ride?

I have 70 acres that we live on to ride. it has woods, creek, pond, cows, and hay fields. Also my uncle owns a hayfield one pasure down from us and I can ride there. I can also ride down our county roads and into town. our town has about 1400 ppl so it's not a problem to have horses around. I could ride for hours on the roadside. Also I can trailer about 30 mins to the beach and about an hr to big bend national park. The horse trails are very remote and you allways see wild animals.

My barn has two arenas (outdoor and indoor) and a small trail around the property, with a quadrant of woodsy trails across the street. There are other places I can ride at as well a few minutes away if I bother to trailer there.

Since I have my own place, I ride there :) we don't have an indoor, or even a sand arena... or a fenced off grass arena for that matter. I ride in my pastures, which are great because I can go for hacks, do dressage, and jump all in the same place. I have 3 pastures that I can ride in and the roads around my area are very horse friendly. We have some "mini trails" that we have cut out and those are fun to ride on. It's on 22 acres so it's not the 200+ that you guys get to ride on but its good for my horses and I. I haul out to my trainer's a lot. She has an indoor with jumps and an outdoor (grass). And since I'm an eventer, I go on XC courses so I get to ride in some pretty exciting places!

Kansas is so pretty!

I have many places to ride. I live out in the middle of nowhere, a friend lives up the road from me, i am on the low part, she is on a hill. I live by a lake, so we can ride anywhere around our houses and by the lake. We can also trailer 10 minutes one way to a town with a outdoor arena we can use, or the other way to another town with an outdoor arena. Also, within 30 minutes distance, there are two other lakes with other trails on them.

correction: SOME places in Kansas are pretty. Others are flat and BORING haha. I luckily live only an hour and a half from the Flint Hills.

I don't have many exciting places to ride. Apart from a few paddocks (nothing too large), a 60x40 arena and a small national park.
There are fun trails at the national park, 12k ride on the short trail, there are also lots of spots where people have dug for gold. Interesting stuff out there.

Well, I kinda live on the lower end of the mountain, it's very rocky and uneven, so for arena work, we have to haul somewhere. But I live right on the state land and have awesome trails....and lots of wildlife...lol.

We're pretty lucky. A lot of times we ride gravel, but we have tons of places to ride. Right across the road are the "monkey trails" which is essentially an enormous ravine hidden by trees. It has a nice path right around it, and when the water is low, we use it for hillwork, it's hella fun.

We also have the "floodway" which is basically an enormous dyke that protects our city from flood waters. It's something like 50 miles long and used to divert flood waters in spring. So the banks are huge and the water is usually low, and it's wide open and good for gallops. We really can't run out of places to ride! We also have a provinicial park about 10 miles from us anytime we want to load up and haul!

Here are some pics of the monkey trails and floodway!


From the top of the ravine


Again


Riding along the ridge


Down in the ravine (which is totally full of water this year, boo!)


Playing on hills


The ravine THIS year


Our floodway!


Down by the trickle of water that goes through in summer (this will be consumed by a massive river come spring)


The actual "floodway" part


Here's what it looked like in spring AFTER the flood waters went down!


Miles and miles of pure FREEDOM!

Heh heh, ok, I'll quit boring you! But considering we live on the prairies, it's nice having neat places to ride, not just fields and fields of wheat!

Nice! Keep em comin lol!

I am so jealous