1. Know your traveling grandchildren! Most importantly, start by knowing essential personal data about the medical history, medical insurance policy numbers, personal interests, and capacities of your grandchildren. This is key information. Create a small travel log to carry this…
Each year Marble Mountain Ranch offers special events in our guest ranch off-season months to encourage our guests with special interests to join us when we can better serve these needs. We are pleased to offer two new events this…
Guest Ranches and Dude Ranches usually share a common thread in their ranch histories and origins. Most dude ranches tend to be heritage sites with generational roots firmly based in the cattle ranching industry. This is understandable and expected for…
Some of the Perks of running a California guest ranch are the connections we make with guests and the periodic healing we see in our visiting guests. The following unsolicited e-mail illustrates this point so well, I think I will…
Kentucky Horsemen Join California's Marble Mountain Dude Ranch The Marble Mountain Ranch "Cole Family" has been shrinking! Three of my children have now graduated from college, married, and moved on to other careers and locations. While my youngest son Adam…
Ecotourism is becoming an increasingly visible part of the travel industry. In some regards I consider the term to be an oxymoron, since tourism is driven by capitalism and the profit motive, while the thesis of ecotourism is based on…
Like most trade groups, dude ranchers have a trade association that they can make application to join. In owning and managing Marble Mountain Ranch, I have resisted the call to join the Dude Ranch Association (DRA) for over 20 years. …
Two years ago Fred Williams brought his wife and two daughters, Eleanore and Anna, to Marble Mountain Ranch. Most all of the youth that visit during our summer dude ranch program pitch a fit about having to leave and go…
Several years ago I was leading a trail ride with a young teenager and his accompanying grandmother. As we descended on the trail down to the river, we had a magnificent overlook view across the Klamath river valley and through…
When our family moved to Marble Mountain Guest Ranch (then Young's Ranch Resort) in 1994, the prior owners had sold off many of the ranch artifacts and historical items. From the moment we arrived, I have had a longing to…