ranches

As Home Decor Sales Boom, Metal Signs Move Beyond the Ranch Gate

November 27, 2020 | By June Naylor

Lately, while driving down country roads in Texas—doesn’t matter whether in the Hill Country or Piney Woods or the Panhandle—my husband and I have noticed more and more artful metal signage on ranch gates and farm entrances.

Two Ways to Expand Your Horizons on Texas’ Private Lands

November 26, 2020 | By Clayton Maxwell

Go Behind the Scenes at the Equine Mecca of Texas

August 29, 2019 | By Dana Joseh

You don’t have to be the moneyed owner of an expensive Western-performance or hunter-jumper horse to see such magnificent animals in this exclusive setting. Some of the premier horse farms and ranches of North Texas grant inside access to their facilities and their resident four-legged celebrities. Six behind-the-scenes public bus tours are offered each year—three in the spring and three in the fall—as well as private group tours by appointment. Winding through countryside once devoted to peanut farms, each six-hour bus tour stops for visits at two of the more than 350 horse farms that collectively stable roughly 40,000 animals.