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Cheyenne TrailridersAshland MontanaListing Type: Specialty TourCity: Ashland Montana Region: Southeast Montana 406-784-6150 |  More Images |
Cheyenne Trailriders offers you this opportunity to tour an American Indian reservation from a unique vantage point - from the back of a horse, the way our ancestors did it. Zane and Sandy Spang are members of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe and they welcome you to visit their homeland.
The reservation consists of approximately 444,000 acres of beauty, from the timbered hills teeming with spring and summer wildflowers to the sagebrush prairies where you will find tipi rings that bear evidence of the presence of their forefathers sojourn in years gone by. As you ride you may meet up with other residents of the reservation - the many varieties of wildlife that abound here.
In order to help you appreciate the significance of your visit to this land, workshops are provided on Northern Cheyenne history, culture and ethnobotany. You can also learn about Gourd dancing and how to play the intertribal 'Hand Game'. For your evening campfire entertainment, you can listen to a Cheyenne storyteller, join in a country western singalong, watch a comic troupe of Clown Dancers, or just relax to the beautiful music of a Northern Cheyenne flute player who composes his own music and makes his own flutes.
A brochure will be sent to interested parties containing detailed information on ride components that you can choose from to design your own ride, whether it be for an hour or a week. Our horses are gentle and well trained. For those who do not ride horseback, covered wagons can be provided that follow the riders. Also covered in the brochure is information on meals, lodging and automobile tours of the reservation.
Directions: To get to the Cheyenne Trailriders Ranch you travel to Ashland, Montana on Highway 212, proceed to the northern end of town where you will turn onto Highway 2. This is a paved road that will take you along the periphery of the historic St. Labre Mission complex where Highway 2 changes to Highway 11. Follow Highway 11 until you see mile marker 50, then take the next left turn (which will be marked) onto a gravel lane. Stay to the right when you cross a cattle guard and the road will take you up around a hill and into a valley where the road ends at the Cheyenne Trailriders Ranch.
Cheyenne Trailriders
Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Ashland, MT 59003
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