Tours
We love having people come visit us here at Lucky Three Ranch. The 127-acre ranch is home to twenty-three mules, such as draft mule, Roll; six horses; and three donkeys, including our latest additions, miniatures Spuds and Augie. The ranch also offers visitors a chance to see in person the beautiful life-size bronze sculptures of the Loveland Longears Sculpture Park.
We offer three different types of tours, which vary in length of time and depth of experience. If you have a particular area of equine interest, let us know when you make your reservations, and Meredith will address it in the tour.
- Abbreviated LTR Tour: a 2-hour tour including an introductory film, a visit with groups of mules and donkeys in turnout areas and a guided tour of sculpture dispersed throughout the ranch. $15.00/person
- LTR Mules and Sculpture Tour: a 3-hour tour including an introductory film, meeting the mules personally in their stalls and a guided tour of sculpture dispersed throughout the ranch. $25.00/person
- LTR Equine Training Educational Clinic Tour: a 3.5-hour tour with an educational training film, personal introduction to the mules, our newest mule skeleton/pathology display and a guided tour of sculpture throughout the ranch. $40.00/person. Ten-person minimum.
Tours must be booked in advance. Please contact us for group rate discounts. To find out more details about Lucky Three Ranch tours or to schedule your visit, please fill out the request form.
If you would like to request more information about a tour please fill out the contact form below
Comments from people who have been on our tours.
If you’ve been on a tour of Lucky Three Ranch, and want to leave a comment just scroll to the bottom of the page.
Hi Meredith,
We have spoken in the past, and my boss Johnny Straitz has been on your tour, and was very much impressed! I have asked him if I could include a tour with you when I attend the International Equine Conference Sept. 21-23 in Vegas.
http://www.equinewelfarealliance.org/Int_l_Equine_Conference.html
I am the equine manager at Todd Mission Ranch, TMR Rescue, founder of Wild Burro Protection League, and I am also on the board of directors with Wild Horse Freedom Federation.
As you know, Texas Parks and Wildlife has been shooting all of the magnificent wild burros in the Big Bend Ranch State Park. My feeling is that the best way to protect a species is to create value. To that end, we are interested in starting a type of Bishop Mule and Donkey Days in SW Texas, and I want to get your advice on how we might best get this off the ground.
I am also interested in learning some organizational skills since we now are home to 201 donkeys, mules and horses.
I deeply appreciate your time,
Marjorie
Meredith, we will be visiting your area from Sunday, August 19 thru Thursday, August 23. Is there a chance we could come for a tour and meet you? We have 5 long ears and a Foxtrotter and trail ride in many states. We own several of your CDs and are faithful readers of Mules & More and The Western Mule.
This would be a dream come true to meet you in person. Please reply at your earliest convenience or you may call 913 285-3282.
Thank you, Loren & Janan Wolken
Please look into this. This is so cruel to our donkeys.
Subject: Please sign this petition to stop donkey cruelty.
Horrifying!
http://www.change.org/petitions/van-horn-texas-chamber-of-commerce-donkey-roping-must-be-stopped#
Additional information here: http://www.donkeysalebarn.com/
Hello,
We are a group of 12 senior who are interested in touring the Mule Ranch. How long is the tour? Could you have directions on the your web site, as I couldn’t find them?
Do you give tours on Wednesdays?
Tried to get your local phone number, but you were not listed. May I have a local phone number to get in contact with you directly?
Any suggestions on where to have lunch after the tour?
Wow, I am amazed to come across your website. I used to ride Tennesse Walkers before I was diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis. I have to use a wheelchair for any distance but can use a walker around the house. We went to North Carolina recently and I begged my husband to let me ride. I did it with no problem!!! It was like the horse and I were one. I rode a Walker and we went up the moutain, through the streams and down the mountain. I didn’t have any trouble at all. It made me feel so good and like I could finally do something fun. I was a nurse and now I am on the opposite side so it has been a hard diagnosis. Thank you for what you are doing. I would love to visit you, ride or whatever I can do. I would even clean a stable. I am anxious to hear from you. I really want to say a big thank you for what you are doing!!! My dream is to move to Wyoming on some acreage and do what you are doing. There is such a need for this for disabled people. You are free from your disability for a bit and you feel like you accomplished something.
I have never ridden a donkey, so I don’t know how they ride. I just know when I look into a horses’ eyes it melts me and I feel we connect and are one in the same.
Debbie Brogdon
Have a great day!
Phil. 4:13
Do you ever do weekend tours? I have a daughter in school (3 of us) and another family may come along too (2 daughters in school). If not, can we just look around on the weekends? Also, I would be picking up a burro training book as I just bought a 5 year old gelded male who spent most of his previous life in pasture.
The other family also owns a burro and we have participated in the western pack burro association mountain races.
Thanks in advance for your reply.
Mike