Beautiful trail ride overlooking the mountains and lake in Dillon. Our guides were knowledgeable, friendly and helpful. There were 8 of us on the hour and a half ride stopping about halfway to take pictures. I appreciate that they picked horses to match the riders and their different riding levels. For someone who does not ride often this ride was long enough to enjoy but not too long sitting in a saddle. Totally worth every penny. read more

Gore Range Outfitters - Meet up area and where you start your ride - Tours Near Me - Silverthorne, Colorado

We did the one hour trail ride today and had 4 kids and 4 adults. It was amazing!! The guides were awesome and met us at our level of some of us being experienced and some being incredibly novice and scared. The route was beautiful and we didn't even care we got rained on! Can't wait to go again and would definitely recommend! read more

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Our family all agreed this was the highlight of their trip to Colorado! Fantastic trails and surroundings, absolutely beautiful views of the mountains all around. Saw several deer and a big red tail hawk on the ride, fields of varied, bright and beautiful wildflowers. Best terrain and horses we've had on a ride, and we've been on rides in Steamboat, Utah, and Wyoming. This was the best and the Liz de Kock Family reunion members strongly recommend you ride with Gore Range! read more

An absolutely amazing experience!! We had Dylan and Holly as our tour guides and they made sure to give us a look at the entire mountain side of Silverthorne including the lake and many wildflowers. Our tour was supposed to be an hour and a half but they went a little over that due to the fact they didn't want us to miss anything!! Would love to go again. read more

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We had a great experience with Gore Range Outfitters for an hour horse back ride. Not only was the private ranch beautiful, but also Glenn and Kiah were very accommodating with our circumstances of traveling in from Denver. We recommend booking your next Colorado horse back ride with them! read more

A bit overpriced. The horses were not properly brushed, the shed/ranch was a complete mess. The trail was pretty but the ride was boring. Wouldn't do this again. read more

Our guides were both very nice, and the horses seemed well cared for and happy to be out doing their jobs. The ride was mostly through open hills, so the sweeping vistas were all around! read more

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Glenn was great in getting us set up and Cameron was our amazing trail guide. I loved how they keep the group small and for our time it was just my wife and my sister with myself. So it was like a personalized tour. Cameron gave us tons of good information about the area and the views were breathtaking. The horses were easy going and pretty much just followed the trail. Absolutely loved it and would go back! read more

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Our family of 9 (4 adults, 5 kids) did the 1.5 hour trail ride. The ride was definitely a highlight of our trip to Colorado! ... The horses seemed well cared for, and the wranglers made sure everyone understood how to control the horses before we got on, which was great. As another reviewer mentioned, the ride was mainly around open hills, so the views were amazing. Our kids loved every minute of it and were disappointed when it was over. read more

INCREDIBLE EXPERIENCE!!! I cannot say enough how thankful I am to have met the people who work here! Glenn, Derek, and Meagan were all truly wonderful people! They were all very professional, organized, experienced horse riders/instructors, and just all around great people! The ranch is awesome, the horses are AMAZING...and the concern for safety was beyond what I had hoped for (and I am very protective over my family). I felt very in control the whole time of my wonderful (and large) horse Duke...and my wife and girls did as well of their horses...Derek and Meagan provided excellent instructons/training on how to handle them...and it was just as they said it would be! These people are (and this outfit) really something special...I cannot say enough good things about them! ...and I have not even mentioned the scenery...UNBELIEVABLE!!! Try them out...you will not be disappointed! Sincerely, Vijay, Marlene, Cassia, and Ariel read more

My son and I went on a 3 day guided cow elk hunt with Glenn and our guide Larry. This was our second hunt and we decided to use a guide and found Glenn as our self guided hunt was a bust last year. The hunt started with a balmy -8 F temperature. Thanks to the guides extensive knowledge of the area and elk, we quickly located a herd of cows. I had my pick if some large and larger cows. Probably 20+ spread out across the tree line. I selected a large cow and shot it at 100 yards with a 308 using 180 grain bullet. She walked about 50 yards and dropped. The animal was a prime cow elk and massive. Larry, the guide, skinned and quartered the animal in about half an hour. The care and service was excellent. Glenn andLarry provided great tips and advice. While the hunt was very fast, considering the extreme temperatures we were facing, it was great to have the knowledge these two had so we did freeze to death. We are stoked to take another trip with gorerangeoutfitters next season. Thanks Glenn and Larry! Bill read more

My out-of-state buddy and I contracted with Glenn for a 3-day cow elk hunt during first 3 days of 3rd rifle season in GMU 37. We were told we would have access to "an 800 acre private ranch" above Silverthorne and right up against national forest land below Ptarmigan Peak. When we began the hunt, we found out a couple of new facts. First, the ranch was more like 200+ acres, not 800 acres. Not a real big deal, but the second one was that we could not hunt on the ranch. The ranch owners lived on the ranch and forbid any hunting on it. What we got was access through the ranch to the private land above it, which was national forest land. Hunters who did not have access through the ranch just walked around the ranch; we saw several right above us on a hiking trail. They could have walked down the hill and hunted right next to us. The country above the ranch is fine elk habitat and it is certainly possible to have success there, although we saw no elk in our three days. The downside is you are just hunting on public land and hoping to catch an elk on its way down to the ranch. If the elk become nocturnal, which is normal for elk being hunted hard, they move at night, bringing up the very real possibility of you being driven through the ranch in the early morning and seeing elk bedded down right next to the road you are driving on. Most of us who have elk hunting experience are aware that they seem to have GPS skills when it comes to knowing where they are safe. If they don't leave the ranch, they might as well be on the moon. We were not told about the hunting ban on the ranch when we booked the hunt, which was deceitful in my opinion. If you book a cow hunt with Gore Range, you just have to decide if easy access to some public land is worth the guide fee. read more

Awesome time with Gore Range Outfitters today for horseback riding. My wife and I are beginners and Derrick,Jenny, and Glen our wranglers took the time to make us feel safe with clear direction and a safety test. They stayed with us during the ride to make sure we were in full control of the horses. The ride itself couldn't have been better given that the Mountain View's were stunning and the fact that we we also saw elk, mule deer and coyote pups. Great job! read more

I don't typically file complaints but I am an educated individual and experienced hunter and will attempt with my best attempt to provide you with an objective overview of my complaint. We contracted with this outfitter for three days of guided day hunts. My friends and I went with Gore Range Outfitters based on the owners selling of a great hunting experience and he estimation of our success filling our Elk tags. This was a complete exaggeration of the reality of hunting Elk with Gore Range Outfitters. I informed him that I was bringing my 14 year daughter with me. I also told him that she has disabilities from birth that affected her eyesight but that had absolutely nothing to do with any form of strenuous hiking. Glenn stated that he had no issues with this. A note to the reader here, My daughter has climbed Masada in Israel (this is an incredibly strenuous hike) she's hiked paths at the 10,000 foot level on Germany's tallest mountain the Zutgspitze, as well as hiking several other strenuous hikes in Zion, and Grand Canyon national parks). I saw this trip as a special daddy-daughter bonding time and the opportunity to give her a once lifetime experience. I also informed Glenn that my style of hunting is stalking not sitting for 12 to 14 hours waiting for game to appear - Glenn stated that he understood and would try to accommodate - another bait-and-switch tactic used by Glenn to get us to agree. Day 1 - Glenn opts to guide for my daughter and I - we meet Glenn at the appointed time still roughly 45 minutes before sunset, we travel 5 minutes behind Ruby ranch where we begin a hike in absolute darkness to a spot where he thinks we'll have success - no issues hiking to and from any of the sites Glenn picked for the day. I did take issue over the fact Glenn dropped us off at spots some of which I questioned as you couldn't walk a straight line with running into several trees - there was no way I'd be able to identify a legal bull Elk let alone take an accurate shot - over the day Glenn took us to 5 spots where we hiked small distances and sat quietly. My daughter handled the hiking well but though we sat for over eleven hours that day we saw absolutely no game at all. Frankly it wasn't a great day at all but I'm a patient hunter - Glenn over several conversations that day made attempts to tell me that success wasn't going to be good, he even pointed out the overall Elk tag success was at about 20% - first, he stated in our initial conversations that his guiding led to an minimal 70% success rate now he was making statements trying to set a lower expectation. Okay, still had two more days of hunting so I wasn't too concerned. At the end of the day Glenn takes us back to meet the rest of our team. Here's where this completely fell apart. In the car Glenn realizes that we have no transportation because his other guide took my friends to a more distant location - we have no idea, he's the guide and planned the hunt so we have no means of transportation home because of his planning - he literally got angry with me and my daughter over this and at one point suggesting that he'd drop us off at a restaurant where my friends could pick us up when they returned (I have a rifle and a handgun - where's the common sense here) then when he suggests that he's going to take us back to the same spot to sit and wait again for an 11-plus hours with no game sighting I disagree - he literally blows his top and starts yelling at me in front of my daughter stating he's not a "Babysitter" and casting statements about my daughter in front of her in his truck that were extremely hurtful and false. Honestly and sincerely, my daughter was a real trooper, didn't let out a single complaint and had no issues with the hike. Then rather than approaching me he tells my friends via a text that he has no guide for my daughter and I and that we are a waste of his time - I'm quoting his text here. He was totally unprofessional, his hunting skills I question when he questioned himself regarding Elk migratory patterns and his customer services skill are appalling. Some background on my daughter - first, because of his lunatic rants in the truck she was in tears and refused to go another day. My daughter had 15 different surgeries from birth where we were told at one point she might not ever walk - as a parent who loves their children, this is a gut wrenching experience - we have over the years managed to overcome all but one challenge for her, her eyesight is locked and because of that it throws off her depth perception - hiking isn't a challenge but she most likely will not be driving a car. To have to listen to the rants of Glenn who was a) clearly upset out having to drive an extra 10 minutes out of his way to drop us off, and b) visibly angered over my disagreement over the next day's hunt plan was unbelievable and the fact that tried to use my daughter as an excuse is inexcusable. Avoid Avoid Avoid read more