Above -- a 1 hour ride on the wolfe ranch
Call or Text (580)993-0097 For Reservations! NOT Email!! We do have a 250# weight limit!
Call us or text us on (580) 993-0097. If no one answers the phone, try again (before 7pm, please) or try tomorrow. It means no one is in the office or is out of cell range.
Watch for our special April, 2025 all day ride. The local Murray County 4-H Horse Club has put on this special trail ride and lunch every spring for more than 30 years. The very private Howe and Chapman ranches have graciously allowed us to ride on more than 10,000 acres of historic Arbuckle Mountain ranch land that has been in their families for nearly 100 years. We furnish horses for 5 or 6 riders every year and bring the horses to the ranch (about 15 miles south of Sulphur) for riders that have enough riding skill to ride and guide their own horse for the 4 hour+ ride. Call me (Cheri) for more information.
We are able to set up lessons and combination lesson / trail ride sessions if time is available. Our hour rides go out on the back-end of the ranch. Two hour and longer rides go out in the Chickasaw National Recreation Area (where we ride on 5000 acres in the Arbuckle Mountains) except during any of the gun deer hunting seasons (as listed here). We do have a large, beautiful ranch to ride on during gun season (no hunting is allowed on this ranch) just north of us.
2024 'GUN' HUNTING SEASON DATES!
Here are the 2024 FALL DEER GUN HUNTING SEASON DATES from the Oklahoma Wildlife Department. We will be doing beautiful fall 1 hour rides on our ranch during the GUN deer season dates shown below. We DO NOT ride in the Chickasaw National Recreation Area during the gun hunting seasons. We can, however, ride on a large ranch north of us.
Oct. 18 - 20, 2024 ... Youth gun season.
Oct. 26 - Nov. 3, 2024 ... Black Powder season.
Nov. 23 - Dec. 8, 2024 ... Gun season
Dec. 18 - Dec. 31, 2024... Doe season
Established in 2000 -- 25th year of CONTINUOUS operation
Arbuckle Trail Rides, LLC was started in 2000 by Pete and Cheri Wolfe, owners of Wolfe Ranch Quarter Horses. After 35 years of training horses professionally, they needed to slow down and retire from hard competitive riding. Taking out a few trail riders seemed to fit their background perfectly. Now, they cannot keep up with the demand. Sadly, Pete passed away September 11, 2021, at the age of 80. He was still riding and training horses until he fell ill in May. He is sadly, sadly missed. Cheri is continuing with the operation of the trail rides and still raising and selling some of the best saddle horses Pete and Cheri have ever raised. Nothing is going to change in how the rides and lessons are conducted.
Oklahoma and International Recognition
We are proud to announce that ATR has been recognized as one of the best trail ride destinations in the country. Recently, we were voted "Best trail ride provider in Oklahoma" by the readers of "Oklahoma Living Magazine", Oklahoma's magazine with the most subscribers in the state. Each year, several International groups come to ride. Many riders come just to learn from the Wolfe's more than 100 years of combined horse training knowledge and to hear some of their horse stories. They have been told countless times: 'You need to write a book'.
Pete and Cheri have always loved to show visitors their stallions, mares and babies. Cheri, though battling crippling degenerative spine disease, (along with her wonderful help that has been with her and Pete for more than 8 years), is going to continue raising great saddle horses for ranch, professional rodeo and recreational riders. She and Pete sold horses all over the US and around the world! Their draft cross horses sired by their gorgeous registered Percheron stallion, 'TINY', are outstanding.
Please CALL!!! Cheri only has a PC and struggles with mobility, so please CALL or TEXT and do not completely count on e-mail correspondence.
When you call for reservations, please make sure all children have a waiver signed by a parent or guardian if one is not accompanying them. A waiver can be downloaded and printed from this site. Thank you! Cheri
All rides are set up with reservations. Call or text (580)993-0097.
You can go to the Artesian Hotel in Sulphur and then continue 4.4 miles further north on US 177. You will be in front of the ranch!!! You can also put 'Arbuckle Trail Rides' into Google- ONLY GOOGLE! Google Maps will take you right to the ranch gate!
Please excuse the mess at the ranch. The ranch was hit by a huge EF4 tornado that wiped out our 2 homes, our barn, sheds and all fences. We are still trying to get rid of all the debris and are trying to rebuild all of the fences.
NO SMALL CHILDREN MAY BE CARRIED IN THE SADDLE BY AN ADULT. 5, 6 & 7 year olds may only go on the 1 hour ride and must ride their own horse. (A guide can lead their horse at no extra charge.) Children 8 and up may go on the 1 hour ride on the ranch or the 2 hour ride in the mountains if you are sure they are up to it.
