Horseback Riding Tours

Experience the Bryce Canyon area as cowboys and outlaws did by booking one of the horseback riding tours offered by Ruby’s Inn wranglers

If you are visiting Bryce Canyon for your summer vacation, do not forget to put horseback riding tours on your itinerary. A guided horseback ride offered by Ruby’s Inn wranglers will make your trip more memorable and exciting. While riding on horseback through the Bryce Canyon area’s scenery, you will feel like you have stepped back into the Old West by viewing the area the same way cowboys and outlaws first saw it more than a century ago. Your guides even provide you with cowboy stories and background information on famous outlaws such as the notorious Butch Cassidy.

Ruby’s Inn offers several horseback riding tours, including a 1.5-hour ride, a half-day ride, a full-day ride and the Thunder Mountain Ride. This 4.5-hour ride begins at the bottom of Red Canyon and ends at its top, passing through a colorful spectacle of red rock spires, fins and pinnacles along the way. Not recommended for first-time riders, the Thunder Mountain Ride includes memorable switchbacks and narrow backbones. Available April through October, the tour departs daily at 8:30 a.m. In the summer months, a second Thunder Mountain Ride leaves at 1:30 p.m.

While not enjoying one of Ruby’s Inn’s horseback riding tours, take the time to explore Bryce Canyon National Park. A series of natural amphitheaters displaying a vast array of rock formations in seemingly every shape, size and hue, Bryce Canyon’s vistas are truly breathtaking. A stroll along the rim of Bryce Canyon’s main amphitheater is one of the most scenic walks you will ever take in your life. The park also features many trails where horses cannot roam that provide an up-close, personal look at the park’s colorful pinnacles, known as “hoodoos.” The park also offers an 18-mile scenic drive that includes 14 spectacular viewpoints along the way. Whichever way you view the Bryce Canyon area’s scenery, you will be left in awe!