Hayrides Sign Up Now $50/Wagon (20 people maximum per wagon) Approximately a 1 hour ride mostly through the woods hayfields, and a trip through the horse fields, they may bug you for a bite of hay while passing! Sign up on our reservations page! |
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| What do we have to offer? |
Why would you choose to ride with us? |
Guided Horseback Rides for the public Bring your horse or horse club and ride our trails Boarding and Layovers Camping (primitive & electric hook ups) Hayrides |
| We have a loading dock, so you don't have to climb on or off of the horses, so no excuses!!. Our trails are 90% shaded, leave the sunscreen at home! No back roads, the only gravel you will drive on is in our driveway! We guarantee your ride times within 5 minutes (10 for the 2 hour ride) We have the widest variety of ride times 1/2 hour to 2 hours. Ride for 1/2 and gain your confidence or ride for 2 hours for the more experienced rider. Our horses are all very gentle and responsive. You come as a group, you ride as a group, we will not split you up. We will arrange our guides to oversee your children. Friendly, courteous staff. We normally send 2 guides on the trails unless it is a smaller group. We keep our horses well groomed and maintained. We have the largest array of trails in the Salt Fork Region. Even different hour trails, so our repeated customers, don't have to ride the same trail over and over. Schedule a hayride and horseback riding at the same time. Let the little ones enjoy the hayride, while the others follow behind on horses on the same trails. Conveniently located 3 miles east of Salt Fork State Park, also near Tappan Lake, Piedmont Lake, Seneca Lake & Clendenning Lake, just to mention a few vacation spots. Come meet & greet the horses before you ride. You are more than welcome to come in the barn and pet the horses before the ride, they are kept in box stalls so you can meet them face to face. (if you can get their heads out of their hay!!!) Our trails were established over 30 years ago. |
| A little bit of our history... |
| This horseback riding facility was established over 30 years ago by Chester & the late Marjorie Gray, you may have known it as Gray's Salt Fork Stables. It was a very popular place to hang out and bring the family. Some of our riders today, remember riding here 20+ years ago as children! The stable (just the business, not the farm) was sold so Marjorie and Chester could retire and enjoy themselves without all of the hard work. The new stable owner, kept it in operation at the same facility, then decided a few years later to move the horses to their own land and operate there. This left the place kind of quiet. Since then Chester sadly lost his wife and very avid horsewoman, Marjorie, horses and family were her life. Chester decided to lease the stable so he could see things like it used to be. With the kids running and playing in the yard, and always a friendly face he could tell stories to!! If anyone knows Chester, he loves to tell stories!! To keep it short the leasing didn't go over so well. Myself and Jill who were working at Little Sky Riding Trails, decided we were going to get a couple horses and board them at Grays. We came here in 2004 and have been here ever since, BUT......we have a few more than a couple of horses!! We reopened the stable in 2006 and continue still today. The decision was made to keep the name Salt Fork Stables, because this is where so many families came to enjoy themselves, and it is a name that brings back memories to many. We work very hard to try to keep our facility up and running. There are 380 acres here and we do all of the brushogging, hay baling, mowing, tractor fixin' (we try anyway!!) what ever we need to do, and it is just myself, Jill and Chester, who is now 87 and we still just can't keep up with him sometimes!! We don't claim to have the best horses, or the best facility, we just know we work very, very hard and take pride in what we do here and what we have accomplished. Take a look around and the pictures will speak for themselves. We enjoy what we do and until someone drags us out of here, this is where we will be!! (Besides, if you ride with us....it gets us out of doing real work!!) Wendy Shipman Management |
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| The babies are here!! Several of you rode last year and knew two of our mares were expecting.......well they are here and both boys....ughhhh.....they always seem to be ornerier!! Click here to see the babies. |
