Silver Spur Ranch | Idaho

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2026 – Guide price per person including transfers & gratuity – POA (flights extra)

We tailor make all our holidays to suit you. We include the flights, hotels, ranch stay, car hire, transfer arrangements where we can and anything else you may require.  Let us put your perfect ranch holiday together – give us call on 020 8776 8709 or send us an email.

Silver Spur Horse drives are in south eastern Idaho and are one of the most popular activities that we offer. We regularly send guests back for a return visit because one drive just wasn’t enough!

This is THE horse drive. You will be herding around 40 horses back to the ranch. Perfect for experienced riders.

The horses being herding are younger horses that the ranch have bred and are currently in their training program. The horse drive not only helps to rotate pasture but also teaches these young horses how to become sure footed animals, cross creeks, dead fall, and navigate in steep terrain all before anyone gets on their back

Horses have a herd instinct so they naturally want to follow other horses. The group will be split and half the group will go in the front and the other half will go in the back. The group in the front has the job to lead the way and set the pace, the group in the back has to make sure all the horses are following the horses in the front and that none are lost. (It can get pretty crazy at times.)

The horse drive is the ultimate horseback adventure. It is fast paced, has a variety of terrain to navigate, and really tests your skills.

The ranch buildings sit beside Warm Creek, just five miles from the Montana border, you are already a good distance off the tarmac.

The ranch has a number of buildings that serve as sleeping and living accommodation.  It is right at the head of Warm Creek and is bordered by several thousand acres of State land and natural forests. It’s a real rider’s ranch.

The ranch has no mains water or electricity so all the log cabins have propane heating & battery powered lighting, hot outdoor showers and outdoor pit lavatories or “dunnies”.  There is everything else to make your stay memorable, a cook house for meals and a cosy bunk house. Monday is your arrival day and you will get acquainted with your horse and around the ranch.  The drives are a 5 night stay (3 in cabins and 2 in campsites).

On each drive, some 14 guests are accommodated at the ranch and under canvas, catering is from a modern day chuck-wagon. You cover about 20 miles a day and there is plenty to see and do along the way. Tuesday evening sees you camp near naturally heated pools so remember some swimming gear, Wednesdays are always a slow start.

You will return to the ranch by Friday for the farewell supper and continue your vacation on Saturday.

Jackson Hole is a nearby Wyoming town with many alternative hotels plus a rodeo on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Also there are excellent flight connections from a number of gateway airports such as Salt Lake City, Denver or Chicago. From here a car hire is required to drive to the ranch over the State border. We can reserve a car for you from Jackson Hole.

The ranchers prefer that you are an experienced rider so that you don’t get left behind, while a knowledge of western riding is not a must, the abilty to ride fast and react quickly will help to make this a totally unforgetable trip.

Take your own riding hat if you want to wear one as the ranch don’t provide these, also take layers that can be  taken off as it warms up. You will be well catered for along the trail.

The horse drives are the main activity at Silver Spur, time does not allow for a great deal else. There are are 14 spaces on each departure.

The departures are between May and August.

Please book early to avoid the rides selling out.

Ask us about the Delta Airlines service from Heathrow to Salt Lake City which will make accessing this part of the States much easier. Your destination airport is Idaho Falls for Silver Spur.