Leasing Horses
The Halo Ranch Outfitters
have horses for lease or rent. Whether it's one day, or an entire season, we
can accommodate all of your rental horse riding needs. Lease horses for
hunting, fishing, exploration, or just for pleasure. Guest
ranches
and trail concessionaires lease horses that can safely be worked
into
their operation. They supplement their existing string or even
lease an
entire string of proven mountain horses. Our lease horses have all been
used in
a guest ranch type environment. We encourage potential leasers to come
try out
the horses before they lease them.
Saddles and other necessary tack are available as well as
transportation.
Short term leased horses are already shod and shoeing is available for
long
term leased horses.
 The
guides who
conduct
the trail rides will help with the leased horses but they will not be
available as a guide!
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Eagle Ridge Ranch
The
most popular rides are on the EAGLE
RIDGE RANCH in Island Park.
They have a
full list of riding opportunities, probably the best offerings of any
horseback riding business in Yellowstone Country!
Besides great half-day rides, when the guests get back from the rides
they can even go fishing on one of the
ranch's private lakes!
The Eagle Ridge Ranch is
located at the base of the
Centennial Mountains, a primitive area that separates Montana and Idaho
by the
Continental Divide; the majority of this mountain range is roadless.
Rides in
these remote mountains as well as rides in the meadows of the ranch,
and even rides on the
beautiful
sagebrush covered range lands are all available. You tell your
guide what
type of ride you want and you'll get it. You can ride among the
cattle as
they graze in areas on the ranch. You can ride along fishing
streams
and small lakes. Nowhere are there more diverse rides
than
those offered by the Eagle Ridge Ranch!
The ranch
does not offer hourly type rides.
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Halo
Ranch
An hourly type ride is
available on the HALO RANCH!
The ride is about an hour and a half long and it's mainly
in the
pastures and along the streams that flow through the ranch. There are
no steep
trails, but there are some creek crossings. The Halo Ranch is a real,
working
ranch near St. Anthony, Idaho; it's not painted and decorated to look
like a tourist
attraction. There
are old pieces of ranch equipment lying around; there are old, old,
trucks from
the 1920s, there is an old semi that used to haul the rodeo stock back
in the
old days, and the list goes on and on. The
Halo Ranch is not cleaned up to offer rides to the public; it’s a
regular old
ranch!
Time
is spent, at the
beginning of each
ride, going over good, safe, riding practices; riders who have
never even
ridden before will feel comfortable on these rides. Dependable,
easy-going
horses are used and the rate of travel is casual. This is a great
family style
ride and the rates are a real bargain! Advanced reservations are
necessary for this ride, but they can be made just an
hour or so before the ride and your chances of getting a horse are
pretty good.
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