With 30,000 of the most pristine, remote and rugged acres as your personal playground, backcountry horseback riding offers almost unlimited hours of challenging, thrilling, awe-inspiring and fun-filled adventure riding in virtually secluded isolation, surrounded by mountains, hills, mesas, rock cliffs, canyons and some of the most unsurpassed, unspoiled wilderness you will ever see. Indeed, the sheer vastness of the land continues to amaze and inspire our guests. Together with a riding freedom that is seldom seen and a serenity that cannot be found anywhere else, riding at the ranch is a world-class, first-rate experience. It is not an exageration to state that the ranch offers some of the best riding experiences in the world.  

Riding at Rancho Los Banos is as real as it gets, with you and your group joining old and new school Mexican cowboys in a setting that is far removed from artificial or tourist based group riding, far removed from your typical dude ranch riding experience. At the ranch, you become a vaquero or vaquera, discovering the land and its majesty, reading the contours of its ruggedness, spotting wildlife or cattle, herding and directing cattle home, seeing landscapes that go on for miles, surrounded by a wild and serene wilderness that can only be experienced first-hand.

If what you seek is a riding challenge, or an opportunity to experience backcountry riding in pure, pristine wilderness, with scenery and landscapes virtually at every corner, in an intimate, private and secluded horseback riding experience, far removed from the typical dude ranch trail ride that choses quantity, and profit, over quality, then Rancho Los Banos might be the horseback riding adventure destination and vacation for you.  Indeed, riding at Rancho Los Banos offers a high desert experience full of adventure and fun-filled riding, with pristine scenery that goes on for miles, immersing yourself in a wilderness that is pure and serene, in a place commonly called the last frontier and the "most rugged land you will ever see." 

With no signs of civilization, you will immerse yourself in our high desert or riparian, canyon environments, whether riding inside boxed canyons, river beds, vertical, rugged mountains, high elevation terrains and/or rolling foothills dressed in golden colored grass.  Riding at Rancho Los Banos will be an uplifting and reenergizing experience as you make your way through panoramas and scenery that are as exotic and beautiful, not to mention unspoiled, as anything in the Americas. While here, you will quickly forget about the life you have left behind as the land that envelops you displays its serene tranquility and calming energy.

You will ride in comfort and security atop one of our two dozen well trained, well mannered, noble and experienced horses. Together with them, you will ride in synergy, as a team, conquering vertical mountains and rugged, rocky terrain. Born and bred at the ranch, our horses are well adapted to the rigors and ruggedness of Los Banos, having spent years learning and mastering their 30,000 acre home.

For beginners and experienced riders alike, our 80 miles of dirt roads, and our hundreds of miles of trails, present stunning vistas in an easy and relaxing ride. The ranch, through its various sections, offers diversity of flora and of the terrain itself and, together with the size of the land, you are virtually guaranteed to never ride the same trail twice, thereby having a different adventure, with different landscapes and sights, every day you decide to ride at Rancho Los Banos.

Riding at the ranch is truly an experience unlike any other, with the opportunity for peace, tranquility and serenity, working in tandem with one of our gentle, well-mannered, sturdy and experiences horses. With our old and new school genuine Mexican cowboys as your guides, riding at Rancho Los Banos will become an unforgettable experience through incredible country, whether you are an experienced rider or an eager beginner.  In the end, you will see, like many riders already, that riding at Rancho Los Banos is an experience unlike any other, unsurpassed in beauty, in its exotic qualities, and in the complete serenity and tranquility one feels traversing the high sierra, boxed canyons or the unmistakable land that is the Sonoran and Chihuahuan landscape.