Facilities

Indoor rid­ing ring

Cov­er­all arena — 70′ by 150′ (plans to increase rid­ing space by 30 feet in the near future). Arena is har­rowed daily, and has sand/shavings footing.

Out­door rid­ing ring

100 ft x 220 ft with sand foot­ing and plank fencing.

Round pen

Located up by the house we have a fairly large round pen for those want­ing to work at lib­erty. We have plans to demol­ish this pen and build a new one closer to the barn area.

Tack up area

The barn is located inside the indoor arena. There is a 70′ by 60′ locker, tack up and stor­age area. There are cross ties suf­fi­cient for 8 horses tack­ing up at the same time, 18 lock­ers, and room for tack boxes if board­ers would pre­fer. There is also a sep­a­rate les­son tack room, indoor toi­let (com­postable), feed room, view­ing room, and util­ity room. Our view­ing room is well insu­lated and is heated through the cold weather to allow us to keep med­ica­tions and drink­ing water avail­able, and to allow fam­i­lies of rid­ers a place to keep warm while watch­ing. We are going to make the barn shorter and reclaim some of this space for the arena, the time­line for this project is not clear. We have built more lock­ers to accom­mo­date our grow­ing boarder population.

Pas­tures

We have a vari­ety of sizes and loca­tions of pas­tures to accom­mo­date just about any horses turnout needs. Cur­rently we have  free choice mare, free choice geld­ing, diet mare and diet geld­ing options. There are also other fields avail­able if needed. We can’t wait for the pas­tures to grow up so we can get the horses out of the sac­ri­fice areas. They will love being out on grass the way they were meant to be!

Update:

Thank heav­ens we had a mild win­ter — it gave us a chance to fig­ure out the win­ter prop­erty glitches with­out hav­ing it being unman­age­able. We love our out­door arena and how quickly it thawed and dried out — we have been rid­ing on it reg­u­larly as long as it hasn’t snowed on us. We are wait­ing for the ground to fin­ish thaw­ing so we can com­plete the drainage instal­la­tion around the indoor arena and com­plete the land­scap­ing at the same time. We are much hap­pier this spring with the park­ing lot — although there is still a soft spot in one area we haven’t had any­one get stuck this year — much improved from last year!

Our projects for this sum­mer include com­plet­ing the land­scap­ing around the out­door arena, drainage around the indoor arena, fenc­ing one more iso­la­tion area at the front of the barn, and start­ing the changes in the barn. In case we get the occa­sional quiet day we will con­tinue with clean­ing up the spare fence posts that are still in a few fields and tidy­ing the cor­ners of stuff that accu­mu­lates when you do these projects. We are unsure how far we will get with the barn this sum­mer, it will depend on how mother nature coop­er­ates with some key stages of the other projects.