Horse Games and Stagecoach Inn

We had a bit of a dilemma this morning.  Do we go on a ride or stay around to watch Liam and Vincent play games on their horses.  The compromise was John watched the boys while Luca and I went on the ride.

I guess John was the only parent to watch but that was okay as his hips couldn’t have survived another ride in the saddle.  Luca and I went on the 3 hour long ride over a mountain ridge and down into the canyon where Sulfur Hot Springs is located.  My butt was sore, my feet cramping,  I had to use the bathroom and I was hungry by the time we arrived at the restaurant.

We had lunch of wild boar at the Stagecoach Inn that was built in the late 1800’s. Since the railroad didn’t arrive until the early 1900’s it was an overnight inn and restaurant for stagecoach and farmers.  It changed hands several times before Teddy Roosevelt slept here while mapping Rocky Mountain Nat. Park and Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday slept here.  Other owners created a motor court with covered car parking for the Model T’s then it was made into a hotel.  A fire took out part of the second floor in the 60’s.  Finally about 4 years ago the current owners fixed it up as a bed and breakfast, restaurant and bar.  It has become a growing and welcomed fixture in Sulfur Hot Springs.

The Ranch trailered the horses back and gave us a nice ride home.

Around the campfire this evening the Range Riders were give awards and a Golden Horseshoe as a momentous of this week.  Liam was awarded the “True Grit Cowboy” and Vincent was awarded “King Loper”!