Dude Season is Here!!!

Well today is the first official day of dude season and everyone is so excited to begin the summer. Dean is on his way home with our first week of guests from the airport and we can't wait! The smell of Thanksgiving turkey and homemade pumpkin bread fills the kitchen.

Our horses are healthy and ready to ride, the fisherman are catching fish left and right, and everyone is geared up for square dancing and all of our evening activities. The anticipation and wait is over. :)

Chloe, the cat, (see right) is guarding the ranch and directing traffic to the office. Can you see her? She's waiting for you!

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Ten Days & Counting!!

Things are really starting to move along here at the ranch. All the buildings are open and we've already had several groups at the ranch to help us prepare for summer. Horses are now here, lawns are being mowed, the pool & hot tubs are getting filled and we are anxiously awaiting for guests to arrive for the official start of the season!

Our new staff for the summer is also arriving. Our wranglers "reported for duty" on Sunday to begin our horse clinic and several cooks are already here learning Karen's wonderful menu for the summer. They have already perfected the popular "ice cream roll dessert" and Thanksgiving dinner. :) The rest of the staff will be arriving throughout the next week. We have a great crew lined up this year with a few familiar faces from last summer. We are very excited to have them all here and know you will enjoy them as much as we have!

Looking forward to another great season (25th in fact)!

The Horses are Coming!

The dude season is fast approaching and horses are coming in from pasture today!!

Hayley just returned home from college late last night and went out with Dave this morning to start bringing them in from our pasture in South Park.

Come and visit us this summer to see all your favorites as well as some great new horses Dave has added to the herd. Who knows...you may even be able to help name some of them. :)

North Fork Videos

As technology keeps changing, we are trying to play "catch-up." Here is the latest on where to find North Fork on the web. We hope you'll check us out and come and visit us.

Come and check out our newly, redesigned website, http://www.northforkranch.com/.

We also now have video footage of the ranch on our video website. http://www.northforkranchvideos.com/

You can visit our youtube videos from this site: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=North%20Fork%20Ranch&search=Search&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&spell=1 or just type in "North Fork Ranch" in the search box and our videos will show up.

If you want to see some great still shots of the ranch, we are also on Flickr. Again, just go the following link: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=North+Fork+Ranch or go to Flickr's home page and type in "North Fork Ranch" in the search box.

Orvis Endorsed

For those of you that haven't heard....North Fork Ranch is now an Orvis Endorsed Fishing Lodge! This is a very prestigious, world-wide acknowledgement of our lodging, the structure of our river, our quality of fishing, and our wonderful hosts, Dean & Karen & Kevin. We are very proud of this endorsement and hope you will come and visit us and spread the word. http://www.northforkranch.com/html/orvis_endorsement.htm

The Homestead Cabin

Dean has remodeled the living room in the Homestead Cabin

this spring and it looks great!! He stripped the walls down, put in new chinking, carpeted the floor, painted the walls, and added a coffee bar. It looks wonderful!! It has a completely different look than before. Come and visit us this summer to check it out.

http://www.northforkranch.com/html/homestead_cabin.htm

Winter....in the Spring???

This was the ranch a few weeks ago. It's "suppose" to be spring, yet 20 inches of snow decided to fall!! The picture on the right are the picnic tables off the back porch of the lodge. Crazy, huh? It all quickly melted away and provided some much needed moisture for the lawns and pastures. Now everything is starting to green up and we will be mowing lawns before we know it. :)

North Fork Ranch in the Fall

Fall is always a great time at the ranch. This year, we got quite the surprise when the deer returned. They decided to eat ALL of our Halloween pumpkins!!! We had pumpkins by the corral and in front of the May's House and they would come everyday and eat them all. It was one of the craziest things we've ever seen! Even Pepper and Cooper, the cat, (picture on left) couldn't quite figure out what was going on. Deer eating pumpkins is a first for all of us. It also provided great entertainment while we are working in the office, looking up from the computer, and there is a deer eating off the front porch.....chowing down on the pumpkins. Priceless. :)