Ranch Day Highlights
This year’s theme, “Head ’em Up, Move ’em Out!” focuses on the different methods of transportation in the West. Featured activities include carriage rides around the historical park, horseback rides in the Slaughter Round Pen, handcar rides on the rail car and chuck wagon cooking demonstrations.
Other Ranch Day activities include:
Pioneer craft demonstrations
Playing games outside of the one-room schoolhouse
Making your own rope
Using a hand-wringer clothes washer
Learning to rope a steer
Participating in a stick horse rodeo
Using a hand-wringer clothes washer
Viewing cattle in the shipping pens by the train and depot
No admission charge
Ranch Day is a living history, educational event begun in 1970 at the National Ranching Heritage Center. More than 100 Ranch Hosts and special event participants recreate authentic settings reflective of ranching from the 1780s to the present.
Admission to the day’s events is free, but donations are strongly encouraged. A hamburger lunch will be available for purchase.
Click here for a list
of Ranch hand Experience activities.
Click here for an
activity map.
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