Lake of the Ozarks Trail Rides

04/05/2024

Some of the SPRING BEAUTY you will see through the ears of a horse on our trails 😍🐴

04/05/2024

Scheduled rides start April 27 - call today to reserve your ride
(573) 557-5501 👍🏼❤️🐴

02/25/2024

Another beautiful February getting ready …..

02/11/2024

Only 4 more days 😳 but not too late to call & get her/him a gift certificate 👍🏼🐴❤️

02/04/2024

Honored to be nominated this year as a “Best Kept Secret at Lake of the Ozarks” 🐴
If you feel led to vote, please follow this link and cast votes for your favorite things (5 different votes required to count)

Thank you & can’t wait to see you when the season returns ❤️🐴❤️

Vote in any or all categories once per day January 22nd through February 5th CST! For your votes to be counted, make sure to vote in at least 5 categories. Not seeing your favorite in a category? You can still cast write-in votes through February 5th CST!

02/03/2024

Call now for the PERFECT Valentine gift 🥰🐴

02/02/2024

What does YOUR Valentine want….

12/25/2023

May your Christmas be FILLED with things that bring you JOY ❤️🎄🐴

12/07/2023

Beautiful day for a ride 👍🏼❤️

Getting the team “warmed up” for our Holiday Trail Rides 👍🏼🎄🐴

Call today to reserve your spot between Dec 9th - Jan 2nd (weather permitting) 🎅🏻

12/05/2023

Looking for a way to enjoy the BEAUTY of the season - do it on horseback 🐴

We have LIMITED spots available for a Trail ride through the woods, over creeks and beautiful pastures with our amazing team 👍🏼❤️🎄

Call TODAY before they fill up......

11/24/2023

As you begin your Christmas shopping, don’t forget about gifting EXPERIENCES 🤗

Call Mel @ (573)557-5501 to get a printed Gift Certificate for next season

🎄GREAT STOCKING STUFFER🎄

11/22/2023

🎄🐴❤️ Holiday Rides ❤️🐴🎄

We will offer Holiday Rides Dec 9th through January 2nd (weather dependent) ❄️❄️

And don't forget to order that
🎅🏻🧑🏻‍🎄GIFT CERTIFICATE 🧑🏻‍🎄🎅🏻
for that special person in your life that
REALLY needs to be on the
back of a horse🐴😍

11/08/2023

Do you have that one friend or family member that you never know what to get them for Christmas 🙋🏻‍♀️

Get them a Lake of the Ozark Trail Ride gift certificate for the 2024 Season 👍🏼🐴❤️

Call Mel at 573-557-5501 today

10/30/2023

Last customer ride of the season 

10/29/2023

A very special
THANK YOU ‼️
to all the amazing folks that came out and spent some of your precious MOMENTS with us on the trails…..

Already looking forward to creating MORE memories next season 👍🏼🐴❤️😍

10/28/2023

Wonderful description of the connection between horse & human ❤️🐴

I went to the barn early this morning. The dark was thick, the stream in the woods overflowing, and stars letting me know the clouds were receding.

All was dark in the barn; the home of the horses was still nestled within a blanket of night. Both had come in last night due to the rain. I walked in with care, softly announcing myself. I could hear the night sounds of horses — subtle movements of feet, light puffs of breathing. Coaly stood up from lying down, I could feel his eyes waking and his interest in why I had come. Rocky slightly stirred as well, then settled. I walked to his stall, looked in, my eyes trying to find him in the dark but couldn’t. Then I heard him lightly breathe. He was lying down.

“Oh, it’s you. Hi,” he seemed to say. Then he settled back into his rest. He was still in the night world in mind and body and dream. I closed my eyes and leaned against his stall and felt perfect there, light and rooted, where I was supposed to be, feeling so relaxed, peaceful, and wholly alive. Hearing him relaxed and peaceful and wholly alive. And I slowed my breathing, and all thought drifted away, becoming a zero-point of just being and loving.

Soon I found my breath syncing with his, a calm and steady breath in and then a release of a puff of breath out, pause, and then letting another calm breath in. So effortless, so surrendered, so trusted. The night sounds joined us—an owl, Coaly licking and chewing, a rooster in the distance. Rock’s breathing, my breathing. And within this I felt him, the truth of him, who he was and how he was feeling, what he needed in life if anything. He was giving me the gift of open-ness.

I slowed my breathing and the most amazing thing happened — he slowed his as well. I was giving him the gift of my open-ness just like he did, and he was accepting.

After about half an hour he stood up and with my eyes still closed I heard him step over to me and place his head beside mine. I felt his breath on my face like a caring whisper. A thousand pound animal as light as a feather inches away from me.

Relaxed and peaceful and wholly alive. And I realized that healing is a natural by-product of remembering this wholly aliveness, this love for life and who we are, and sharing that love with those around us.

10/18/2023

Still some openings available to experience a BEAUTIFUL Fall trail ride with us…..
Call TODAY to schedule 7 days/week at 10am, noon or 2 pm
(573) 557-5501

10/16/2023

Only two weeks left to book your fall ride 

10/12/2023

🍁🐴Call (573) 557-5501 today to schedule

We are still booking rides
available 7 days/week at
10am, noon or 2pm 🤗🍁🐴

10/10/2023

We are still booking rides
available 7 days/week at
10am, noon or 2pm 🤗🍁🐴

Call (573) 557-5501 today to schedule

10/07/2023

First BEAUTIFUL Fall ride of the day…..

*** Sorry, we lost Wi-Fi at the end

🐴❤️ CALL TODAY AND SCHEDULE YOUR RIDE❤️🐴

10/06/2023

🐴 Meet Our Trail Team 🐴

This is Mina 😍

She is a 13 year old Tennessee Walker that was at a rescue in Mississippi. She had a foal at the time and was pregnant again!

She stands about 15hands and has a beautiful red shine to her coat.
She is very easy to catch & comes to you in the field. She is gaited & ridden on most of our trail rides.
Her one negative is her tendency to want to be the BOSS mare in our pastures when not on the trail 😂

For this reason, Mina will be retiring from LOTO Trail rides and is looking for a new home were she can enjoy a smaller herd (maybe just one friend) and continue her love of giving rides & enjoying the trails 👍🏼🐴❤️

If you know somebody that would love to meet Mina and see if they connect, please contact us.

09/29/2023

Thank you to these AWESOME clients that scheduled a time this week to enjoy our horses & the BEAUTIFUL rides they give ❤️🐴👍🏼

Call or text today to schedule your next Peaceful Fall Journey
(573) 557-5501

09/29/2023

Good lesson in this story.

The Holes We Could Step In...

Yesterday I posted a video of loping horses in a big field that was covered in tall grass. It received a bunch of comments from people concerned about holes from foxes, gophers etc and how that would keep them from loping and maybe even from riding there.

I can understand and even share their concern, to a point. We sure need to do our part to keep our horses intrusted to us safe and sound. However, let me relate a story that took place a few years ago.

I took my son Cody, who was about ten at the time, with me to visit my brother Levi in Montana where he was cowboying. We were all able to ride as a crew, with the ranch hands, one day to round up a few thousand acre pasture in preparation for weaning of the roughly one hundred cow calf pairs that were in that pasture.

Well it was a couple mile long trot to the back of the pasture. Not far into the trip out I noticed a large prarie dog town ahead of us that we were headed straight for. I was curious to see how this was going to be handled by the forman of the crew and by the rest the cowboys and their horses for that matter.

As we reached the point it was clear we weren't going around to avoid the hundreds of holes in the ground left by the noisy chatter box rodents I atleast thought we would slow to a walk. That didn't happen either. Every man just put his hand down, never breaking stride, allowing the horses to navigate where they placed each of their feet without the micromanagement of the riders.

Not one of the seven horses stepped a single one of their twenty eight feet in a hole! Each of them figured out how to manage each of their own four feet without help. Not only did this happen once, but we crossed and additional two prarie dog towns before reaching our destination.

I learned a valuable lesson that day that I have carried forward. We tend to ride worrying about all the things that could go wrong that we often lose sight of what could and is going right. Yes we could step in a hole, our horse could take a misstep. But truth be told, honestly, contrary to what we think, not much can be done in life to prevent some things. We just need to learn to trust that the horse is competent to handle the things they need to handle.

These same ideas can certainly be carried to parenting and just life in general. If we do everything for our children, we will always have to do it all for them. If we try to control everything in life, we will at best get burned out.
Instead I am choosing to control what is mine to own and then not worry about all the rest.

Bad things happen in life. But I am learning to usually just put my hand down and ride...

09/25/2023

🐴 Meet our Trail Team 🐴

This is Patches, can you see how he got his name?🤷🏻‍♀️

Patches is a Missouri Fox Trotter which means he has a VERY smooth gait creating a lovely ride for you on our trails! 👍🏼❤️

He was originally from Humansville , MO and we are SO lucky to have him on our team!

Patches is a very sweet horse and responsive to his rider. His best horse buddy is Goldie (bottom left photo)🐴😍

Schedule your Fall ride & meet Patches 🐴
By appointment 7 days/week, 10am, noon or 2pm.
Call or text (573)557-5501

09/21/2023

Schedule your FALL ride now…..
Available pre-booked slots via phone call, text or email (see website) - 7 days per week @ 10am, noon and 2 pm 👍🏼🐴❤️🍁

09/20/2023

MIND FULL vs MINDFUL

Learn to be Present and Enjoy the Moment

Come enjoy a “Mindful” ride with us while enjoying the amazing change of the seasons and the many monarch butterflies 🍁🦋🐴