Best Horse Boarding Facilities in Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs Therapeutic Riding Center offers horse boarding services in Colorado Springs. Full care boarding is offered at the Mark Reyner Stables and includes hay and grain twice a day, covered stalls, 24-hour on-site care, and access to the Palmer Park trails as well as to a large outdoor arena and a heated indoor arena. The center is known for its equine-assisted therapy, including equine-assisted psychotherapy, and creates one-on-one sessions for people of all ages with special needs. Certified therapeutic riding instructors provide therapeutic riding lessons, or hippotherapy, for people with disabilities as well. Group and private lessons for other riders are also available.

For the Love of Horses Ranch boards horses in Fountain. The ranch is situated on almost 40 acres and features eight stalls with connecting runs and three loafing sheds in the pastures. Full Care Boarding services include daily turn-out in good weather, hay feeding twice a day, daily stall cleaning, and the use of an indoor arena, a 60-foot round pen, an outdoor arena, tack room, and Riders Lounge. Partial Care Pasture Boarding service is also available. For the Love of Horses features Natural Horsemanship Training and Lessons with a resident NARHA/PATH certified Riding Instructor who helps riders form a bond with their horse, understand their actions, and communicate with them properly.

Historic Triple B Ranch has been a Woodland Park boarding facility for over 60 years. Horse owners can opt for Long-Term Boarding via a month-to-month or annual contract for either pasture or barn boarding, and owners can bring their horses for a short-term stay at the Horse Hotel as well and enjoy a vacation of riding in the Pike National Forest. Triple B also welcomes horseless guests with all-inclusive ranch vacations, cabin rentals, and various fun ranch activities such as hayrides, a petting zoo, swimming, and hiking, and the ranch is available for rent for weddings and other events as well.

Mariah Farms has been boarding horses in Castle Rock since 1991. The family-owned and run facility was the first ranch to be approved for boarding horses in Douglas County and features 35 acres with Castlewood Canyon scenery, a 70x250 indoor arena with sand footing, an outdoor arena, and round pen. Boarding options for horse owners include a 12x12 stall and daily turnout or a large shed run, and the owners live on-site for dedicated attention to the safety and well being of all horses. Mariah Farms also offers private and group lessons for Western Dressage, lessons on mini horses, horse camps, and a room for birthday parties.

Middle Ground Farm has been a Larkspur horse boarding ranch for over 10 years.The family-friendly facility is located on 80 acres and is known for its quiet and natural atmosphere where horses can graze naturally in five pastures, take shelter when needed, enjoy mountain grass hay, and benefit from lots of daily attention and monitoring as well as care if ill. Sick horses can use a stall or shed and have access to an on-site certified veterinary technician as well. Additional features include a 12-stall barn, heated tack room, hot-water wash racks, and an indoor arena, outdoor jump arena, and small dressage arena. Middle Ground Farm also provides extensive training in horsemanship, English riding, cross country, stadium jumping, and dressage.

Snow Creek Larkspur offers horse boarding services in Larkspur. The facility is located on 35 acres and features a 3,600 square foot insulated barn, loafing sheds, automatic waterers, two open pastures with shelters, tack room, an outdoor arena, trailer parking, and tack room. Boarders can also rent a private pasture and take advantage of the on-site horse training as well a resident riding instructor, and trail horses and riders of all levels are welcome. The facility accepts only a limited number of boarders, and owners must arrange all farrier and vet services. Snow Creek Larkspur also has farm education programs, farm to table dining/catering, workshops, and a Christian summer camp and rents its grounds for weddings, team building exercises, and other gatherings.

Two Hawks Ranch is a horse boarding facility in the Larkspur area. Horses in good health have access to Pasture Boarding with 24/7 socialization, pine tree shade, large grass pastures, walk-in sheds, clean water, hay, and grain. The group believes that being in the open is better for horses than stall boarding, and the professional staff rotates horses from pasture to pasture as needed. Horse training, from breaking to advanced jumping, is also available as well as " elite horsemanship" lessons for all disciplines such as basic riding, dressage, hunter/jumping, barrel racing, western riding, and preparation for Schooling Shows, C-Shows and A-Shows.