Mayan Dude Ranch | Texas

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2025 – Guide price per person including transfers & gratuity – please ask us

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The same family have run the Mayan Ranch for many years and offer a full and varied programme of entertainment and riding. Set just a few minutes walk from the town of Bandera to the west of San Antonio.

The Mayan Ranch is nestled in a picturesque valley amid cedar-clad hills just a few blocks from downtown Bandera. The cypress-lined Medina River, where guests can swim, tube, and fish, draws a lazy horseshoe loop around the 348-acre spread, crisscrossed by riding trails. The wildlife, including White-tailed deer and showy peacocks wander among the rustic cabins, originally built on this site in the 1930s for a Girl Scouts camp. Now, a swimming pool, party pavilion, basketball and tennis courts, corrals, Western village (Hicksville / Western Village), and a welcoming lodge with dining hall all make up your perfect ranch holiday experience.

The Mayan Dude Ranch is one of those family run ranches where there is something going on all the time. More suited to families or couples with no riding experience as the riding is limited but the fun is not!

The ranch has picturesque trails which wind over 340 acres from the lowlands of the Medina River that flows through the ranch, to high in the hills for a panoramic view of the valleys beyond. Much of the riding revolves around the great meals that are offered.

There is a variety of accommodation at this pleasant little ranch:

One, two or three bedrooms rock cottages or Lodge rooms with a beautiful view of Bandera and the hills. Family rooms with king-size bed adjoined by one room with two double beds. All lodging is assigned to meet the size of your party. Each unit is unique; décor, bedding, and features will vary between units.

Everything is included: your attractive room, three delicious meals each day, two horseback rides daily, use of the tennis courts, plus all the activities listed on the activity schedule.

A typical day at The Mayan may start with either a breakfast ride or breakfast at the ranch followed by a morning ride. After a superb lunch it’s back to riding or maybe relaxing round the pool. After a great supper there may be evening entertainment – dancing, music or a firework display.

The rate includes two rides a day: one in the morning and one in the afternoon. They are all single file, walk only with a cowboy guide and last about 50 minutes.

No riding experience is required and the Wranglers will allocate a horse for you.

Children under 6 years of age are not able to participate on the trailrides. However, at scheduled times, the wranglers will put them up on a horse and lead them around the corral.

During the summer there is no riding on a Sunday.

The staff at the ranch certainly want to be sure you don’t go hungry so will find some of the biggest and best meals in the ranching business. These may be served out on the trail, around the pool or in the dining room.

Evenings are wall to wall entertainment with bingo, talent competitions, country music and dancing or a Karaoke evening.   Hayrides are also a popular evening event.

There are the following amenities and activities –

  • swimming pool,
  • tennis court,
  • ping pong, basketball court,
  • sand volleyball,
  • horseshoes,
  • shuffle board,
  • board games,
  • arcade,
  • pool table,
  • corn hole,
  • washers,
  • hiking,
  • treasure hunting,
  • horseback riding
  • and fishing.