August 8 Blog The Ute Indians of the Colorado River Valley Many BMR guests are curious about the history of the local Indians, so today's "Fun Facts & History" gives a brief look at the Ute Indians that inhabited our area. Most of this information comes from "Early McCoy" and a few other out-of-print books. The word Ute means "high land" or "land of the sun" and the Ute nation at one time encompassed around two-thirds of Colorado. In 1876, when Colorado became the 38th state, most of the Western Slope was still unexplored territory occupied ...
August 7 Blog Photos from our Guests We love when our guests capture their guest ranch experience! There is nothing like an outstanding photo to remind you of your excellent vacation experience. We started a flickr photo group for Black Mountain Ranch here. Have photos to add? We would love to see them. Check out some of our favorites: From Jen: From Aimee: From Michael:
August 7 Blog Midsummer Happiness! We are halfway through the summer season (can you believe that) and are just loving this year! We just launched this new website and are having a real good time posting a bunch of photos to our facebook page (with over 10,000 fans!). We need to post more here, and this is our first of a ton of planned posts. Cattle drives are an amazingly fun time. We do them every week. A few weeks ago Wrangler Josh helped out a calf that kept on falling behind and Michael happened to have his camera ...
July 25 Blog Questions to Ask A Dude Ranch Dude Ranch We talk to a lot of guests on the phone everyday. Love it, we really do. There seems to be quite a few common questions! So rather than watch the morning rides go out today I thought I would answer them here. 1) How Flexible Are You? This one is big for us. At Black Mountain Ranch, you are in control. Don't feel like a ride (or feel like a long one)? Just let us know and we can design your stay to meet your dreams. We help design it but it is flexible! 2) How are your kids ...