It’s 6:30 a.m. at Medano-Zapata Ranch in Colorado, and the cool mist of pre-sunrise is rising around us as we pull up to the stables to meet our guide, Kate Matheson, for the morning roundup of horses ...

Vast desolate landscapes, epic cattle stampedes, notorious gunslingers and lone heroes such as Gary Cooper, John Wayne, William S Hart and Clint Eastwood. The myth of the cowboy is indelibly linked to ...

Zara Saponja leads the Joly family of Chicago on a horseback ride in The Great Sand Dunes National Park outside Mosca on Friday, July 31, 2020. The Zapata Ranch, located about eight miles from the ...

Last year some friends of mine from the Nature Conservancy (TNC) invited me to visit TNC’s 103,000 acre Medano-Zapata Ranch in the San Luis Valley. March 20-22 was a perfect time to go, as it provided ...

The Great Sand Dunes National Park in southern Colorado is growing by more than 9,000 acres. The land is a portion of the Medano-Zapata Ranch Preserve in the San Luis Valley, which has been held by ...

The CBS travel show Colorado Getaways has featured several ranches in recent years where everyone from tourists to Colorado natives can saddle up and spend some time with horses. While they have ...

It’s a stunning autumn day at some 9,000 feet above sea level in southern Colorado. An expansive sky stretches from the sandy dunes over which I’m riding on horseback with my 12-year-old son, Henry, ...