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Colorado Trails Ranch

We are Guest Ranch and event center in Durango Colorado. Cabin rentals, horseback riding, fly-fishing, shooting, archery, hiking, and more!

Come experience the Colorado Rockies in style!

12/16/2024

“✨ Early Bird Special! ✨

Book your stay before December 31st and enjoy 5% OFF your 2025 getaway! 🏞️

Secure your spot now and start planning your dream adventure. Don’t miss out—offer ends soon!

📅 Book now to save!”

12/09/2024

🎉 Find Everything You Need for Your Dream Wedding in One Afternoon! 💍

From your perfect dress to your ideal venue, event planner, floral designer, photographer, videographer, caterer, baker, bartender, musicians, and more—this event has it all. Plus, shop for all those unique little details to make your celebration truly unforgettable!

📅 SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, January 18, 2025
📍 LaPlata County Fairgrounds, Durango, CO
⏰ Noon - 3 PM

✨ Don’t miss this once-a-year event!
Preregister today at durangoweddingsmagazine.com.

12/02/2024

🐴✨ Perk Up the Season is Upon Us! ✨🐴
Saddle up and embrace the beauty of the season with your favorite four-legged friend! 🍂🌟

11/29/2024

Black Friday Alert!

🏞️ Exclusive Guest Ranch Deal 🏞️
✨✨✨✨ 50% off! ✨✨✨✨

*Enjoy 50% off your stay for 2 adults
*Max 4 adults per reservation
*Valid for new reservations only

📅 Hurry! Book by December 6th and plan your perfect getaway. Escape to nature, enjoy horseback riding, and create unforgettable memories at our ranch.

⏳ Don’t wait—spots are filling fast!

📞 Call us now or visit our website to claim this limited-time offer.

11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍂

As we gather around with loved ones, we want to thank YOU for being part of our ranch family. May your day be filled with good food, laughter, and cherished memories.

🍁 From our ranch to your home, Happy Thanksgiving!

11/25/2024

Forest mitigation & Christmas tree harvesting brought to you by our ranch crew 🙌

11/18/2024

We spotted a snow leopard on the ranch, he definitely had the personality at least!

11/15/2024

🌄✨ Forever Begins in the Wild West ✨🌄

From the vast, open skies to rugged mountains and golden sunsets, there’s something timeless and breathtaking about saying “I do” surrounded by nature’s beauty. If you’re looking for a wedding venue give us a call and let’s make your dream wedding come true. 🤍

Here’s to love that’s as wild, free, and enduring as the West itself.

11/13/2024

CTR’s duck, Sunshine, brought the snow this time!

11/11/2024

11/04/2024

Winter has arrived in the high country.

10/29/2024

We’ve had some successful hunt so far this season. Come and hunt the San Juans with and Colorado Trails Ranch!

10/22/2024

There’s something special about a first snowfall deep in the San Juan mountains.

10/16/2024

It’s wedding season!

Stay tuned for more of Jake & Robin’s destination wedding at CTR!

🏔️ +❤️

10/12/2024

The other night we were blessed with northern lights!

10/04/2024

There’s no better time of the year than the fall season.

09/29/2024

Our favorite time of year, the golden days!

09/24/2024

Don’t forget to book your fall foliage package and these golden hours could be yours !

Address

12161 County Road 240
Durango, CO
81301

Telephone

(970) 247-5055

Website

http://www.coloradotrails.com/

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New year, new adventure. Treat your family to what it thrives on most - good times together. Ring in the New Year with booking your summer stay at Colorado Trails Ranch. We offer a summer week experience for families that all generations will cherish!

A new year is upon us and we are excited for the changes and adventures it brings!

Merry Christmas from the ranch! #ranchchristmas #whitechristmas

🎁 Last-Minute Gift Idea! 🎄 Still searching for the perfect Christmas present? Give the gift of a 2025 getaway! Book a stay before December 31st and enjoy 5% OFF—a thoughtful gift they’ll love, at a price you’ll love too! ✨ Make their holiday special with memories waiting to be made. 📅 Book now before the year ends!

Our friends starting the day right.

Keeping the humor alive with hunter commentary 😂 #huntinghumor #backcountryhunting #coloradopacktrips #coloradocamping

So excited to showcase the ranch to the @travelingmainers

It’s Labor Day and we definitely have to celebrate our amazing staff this year. The team work, love and care that they gave was stellar and made this year one of the best!

Load’em up and move’m out!

This week we’ve had the joy of having a chapter from the @ypoglobal out at the ranch. This group helps guide and mold future professionals to become better leaders, through peer support and group experiences like this.

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Our Story

Every dude ranch has a story behind it, and each is unique.

Colorado Trails Ranch is different from all of them and a very special place. Rather than being an adaptation of some sort of former ranch, ours was built to be a dude ranch from its very beginning in 1960.

Prior to any original construction, there were only two buildings; a tiny old barn and the anteroom portion of what was once Coney Cove dance hall, built around 1912. This log structure is still in use today as wrangler staff housing. The first few years there was only the new lodge and six Alpine cabins. A lot of growth and change has taken place over the past half of a century on this guest ranch.

In early years, guests made up their own brand, which was burned into the timber posts in the lodge. Those brands are still there, but this practice came to a halt many years ago. It was a sad end to a great Colorado Trails Ranch tradition, but necessary to protect the building from burning down.

Each year, the ranch comes alive in May with the arrival of our staff from all over the country, and sometimes from around the globe. CTR would not be the special vacation spot it is without the liveliness, and vitality, of the staff.

We’ve enjoyed thousands of new friends through the years.

Five decades of our staff and guests who came to work and play. Every wall holds millions of warm memories left by those who had fun within them. No matter how advanced the world may become technologically, the magic of this dude ranch remains quite the same.

Guests find it hard to leave, and many return over and over again. Past staff members return as guests, introducing their new families to the wonders of dude ranch vacations.

For Jeanne Ross, our General Manager, the CTR experience has never ended. She came to work as a staff member in 1966, and has yet to find a reason to leave. Over the years, she has filled lots of support roles including housekeeping, kids’ counselor, cooking/baking and running the office.

Mike North is also a longtime figure here at Colorado Trails. Since 2002, he’s overseen all physical aspects of the ranch. Mike applies his many skills and talents very well as our head of maintenance.

There’s one very special week we are extremely proud to be a part of.

It isn’t a vacation style of dude ranch event, but the Equine Investigator’s Academy. Colorado Trails Ranch has been hosting this event since 1984, first under the American Humane Association, and with Code 3 Associates since 1996. This national school teaches animal control officers, and other animal professionals, how to recognize and investigate horse abuse. Today, we host two levels of this class which are accredited by Colorado State University.