There’s something undeniably romantic about riding a horse through a cactus-laced desert: the fresh air, the array of colors in the unpolluted sky, and the rugged sense of adventure only a horse can ...

Across rural America, a quiet reversal is taking shape. Instead of cashing out and carving up their holdings, more ranch ...

Large, open ranches are often the last wide-open spaces left between growing towns and expanding highway networks. Across much of the American West and Great Plains, these properties still support ...

For fresh air and wide-open spaces – and one of the best-kept secrets for a family vacation in the U.S. – consider booking your next vacation at a Western dude ranch. It's a life-changing experience ...

Ever picture yourself swimming in your own private resort-style swimming pool in the middle of the West Texas desert? How about spending a day paddling down the Devils River followed by an alfresco ...

Ranches across the West, once valued for what they could earn their owners through the cattle trade, are rapidly being bought up by wealthy Americans looking for somewhere to park their cash. Real ...

You may have outgrown the cowboy phase, but that American Dream is still alive and well at these luxury dude ranches across North America. Dude ranches started as a way for East Coast city dwellers to ...

Dude ranching has been part of the American West for 150 years. Does the industry’s longevity offer clues about how newer recreational activities like rock climbing or snow sports can balance economic ...

Chad Foster has been looking at ranches since he was a child growing up on the border in Eagle Pass. He recalls memorizing the names of the ranches on drives to and from San Antonio. “It was always my ...

The legendary 6666’s Ranches with a historic, 13-bedroom main house in west Texas that have remained in the same family for 150 years hit the market for a combined $341.7 million Thursday. The ranches ...

Decades ago, a generation of America’s wealthiest, raised on television shows like “Howdy Doody” and “The Lone Ranger,” headed west with dreams of owning some of the country’s most prestigious ranches ...