Hook up with one of the ranch seasoned wranglers and spend a morning or an afternoon riding through the wildflower strewn mountain meadows in the surrounding Bighorn National Forest. You'll ride trails through mountain scenery that will take your breath away.

Paradise Ranch horseback riding program is second to none. Experienced wranglers custom fit each guest with the horse that perfectly matches their riding ability, a riding program that is very flexible, and features a number of choices.

Two hour rides as well as both half-day and full-day rides offer plenty of time to get to know your horse. All day rides include lunches packed on mules & cooked along the trail. Horsemanship classes are available too.

Or spend an afternoon in the ranch's private rodeo arena practicing team penning, in which teams of three riders separate three steers from a larger group and work them around the arena and into a pen on the other end of the arena. This is a timed event and competitive and fun for all. Special team penning classes are available If you get up early enough, you will see the ranch horses wrangled down from the high alpine meadows with thundering hooves and steaming nostrils to our ranch corrals.

PACK TRIPS: If you are looking for real western wilderness adventure, this is it! Start out with a hearty Paradise Ranch breakfast in the dining room. Then it's off to the ranch packer's shed for departure. The ride into camp is one of the most magnificent trips you will ever take with the Cloud Peak Wilderness as your backdrop. You'll enjoy a picnic lunch with a view of Cloud Peak, Bomber Mountain and Black Tooth, then it's on to camp at Frying Pan Lake.

The ranch's Frying Pan Lake Camp is located 12 miles, (or 4 1/2 hours by horse), from Paradise Ranch. The lake is one of six in the South Piney Creek drainage. These lakes support healthy populations of brook, rainbow and cutthroat trout. The fishing is excellent, but the riding, scenery and hospitality are second to none as well.

"Our Frying Pan pack trip was recently featured on ESPN Outdoors and has become quite popular. We are limited on group size and availability so call early to reserve your spot."