Dude Ranch Experience
Take a Fun Trip out West! Enjoy horseback riding, play cards in a saloon, go hiking, partake in fine dining, and so much more await on your Dude Ranch Experience. Out on the ranch, there are activities for anyone at any age!
Duration
5 Days /4 Nights
Group size
Customizable
Customization
Available!
Tour Inclusions: 4 nights’ accommodation; 4 breakfasts; 2 lunches; 3 dinners; admissions, entrance, and guide fees as stated in the itinerary, including taxes, and gratuity, except gratuity for guide fees is not included on adult tours unless otherwise requested. Optional Additional Fee*
Highlights:- White Stallion Ranch
- Dude Ranch Experience
- Horseback Ride
- Desert Diamond Casino & Entertainment Hotel
- O.K. Corral Reenactment
- Birdcage Saloon
- Arizona Sonora Desert Museum
- Sabino Canyon Tour
- Optional Additional Fee Activities:
- Spa Services*
- Gun Range*
- Rock Climbing*
Sample Itinerary: Day 1 - Arrive at White Stallion Ranch
- Arrive in Tucson, Arizona, at White Stallion Ranch and check-in to your home for the next 2 nights and immerse yourself in a rustic heaven.
- Kick off your spurs and enjoy dinner included this evening. (Meals: D)
- Here at the ranch, breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included.
- Enjoy a relaxing Dude Ranch experience, with an included Horseback Ride through the desert. Hang out by the pool, play cards in the saloon, take advantage of their onsite Spa Services*, shop in their giftshop, shoot at the gun range*, rock climbing*, or just relax & stroll the grounds and soak up that Arizona sun! Optional Additional Fee* (Meals: B, L, D)
- Enjoy breakfast included at the ranch this morning prior to checking out.
- Depart for Tombstone, Arizona, walk the steps of Wyatt Earp & Doc Holliday and experience the historic town of Tombstone.
- Watch the reenactment of the Famous Shootout at the O.K. Corral. The gunfight at the O.K. Corral was a thirty-second shootout between lawmen led by Virgil Earp and members of a loosely organized group of outlaws called the Cowboys occurring about 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, United States.
- Enjoy lunch on own at one of the great saloon style restaurants offered in Tombstone.
- Tour the Birdcage Saloon which opened on Dec. 24, 1881. It gained a reputation as one of the wickedest theaters between New Orleans and San Francisco. For 8 years from 1881 until 1889, The Bird Cage Theatre operated continuously, 24 hours a day 365 days a year. Legend has it, 26 people were killed in the theatre during its reputed years as one of the wildest and meanest places in Tombstone. Over 140 bullet holes remain in the building.
- Depart back for Tucson, Arizona and check-in to Desert Diamond Casino & Entertainment Hotel where baggage handling is included. Explore the facility and enjoy dinner on own this evening. (Meals: B)
- Breakfast is included at hotel this morning prior to departing for the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum.
- First, check out the Plan Your Day Board on the main entrance patio for a complete schedule of keeper interactions, docent interpretations, and animal encounters. Continue to the Orientation Ramada for a quick overview of the Sonoran Desert region and what makes it so unique. Make your way to the Mountain Woodland where you may see mountain lions, black bears, and Mexican grey wolves. Afterwards, see the Desert Grasslands for prairie dogs and Vulture Culture.
- Grab a spot in the viewing area for the Raptor Free Flight. After the presentation, check out the Agave and Cactus Gardens & Riparian Corridor. Stop in the Ironwood Gallery for the latest visual art exhibit and visit the Hummingbird Aviary for entertaining aerial antics.
- Complete your visit with lunch included at the Ocotillo Café.
- Arrive at the Sabino Canyon Visitors Center, nestled in the rugged front range of the Santa Catalina Mountains. The lush vegetation along the creek stands in sharp contrast to the dry, saguaro-studded slopes above the canyon and offers rich diversity of plant species and wildlife for visitors to enjoy.
- Enjoy a Sabino Canyon Tour. Feel the magic of nature as you ride a convenient, comfortable shuttle through the wonders of Sabino Canyon or to the Bear Canyon trailhead.
- Dinner is included at a local favorite restaurant this evening. After dinner, return to hotel. (Meals: B, L, D)
- Enjoy breakfast included at the hotel restaurant prior check out.
- Depart the hotel and return home. (Meals: B)
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