Experience an Authentic Longhorn Ranch

The Moore Ranch is a working ranch in the wide open prairie about 45 miles west of historic Dodge City, Kansas. We usually have about 300 Texas Longhorn cattle at the ranch and about 50 horses, give or take a couple hundred cattle, depending on the season and how the weather treats what's growing on the prairie.

Our home place is about 1,400 acres, but we run on up to 6,000 acres of rolling hills, trees, creeks, and rocky hillsides. It's beautiful country. We are ranchers. We work cattle, herd cattle, brand cattle, and mend fences. And now, we invite you to join us.

Real Ranch Experience

Since 1998, we've invited folks to share our life on the ranch. We have a number of cabins that you can stay in, and join us for home-cooked meals around the family table. We are not a "dude ranch" and there are no "put ons" here. Our ranch family simply shares our daily experiences with our visitors.

Guests experience a true day in the life of a working cowboy. Guests may awake at sunrise to the sound of the roosters crowing and join the family in the morning chores. After a hearty breakfast, you can help saddle up the horses.

The rest of the day may include riding ranch horses through the longhorn herd, herding the longhorns to new pasture, riding over the prairie while monitoring for wildlife, learning to rope a calf, or even branding the longhorns with a hot branding iron. After supper around the family table, evening may be spent relaxing by a fire and watching the embers fade or enjoying the stars and the quite stillness of the prairie.

Cattle Drives

Cattle Drives are exciting events.Two day Cattle Drives are available when we are moving the longhorns in the summer time. The herd is trailed 8 miles to new pasture across an open expanse of rolling prairie. The next day, ranch horses are ridden back to the ranch.

Three day Cattle Drives are offered in April and October. The distance traveled on these drives is about 30-35 miles. On all these drives, camp is set up with a chuckwagon and cowboy teepees. Sleeping arrangements for the night are in bedrolls either under the stars or in cowboy teepees.

Please check our Upcoming Events calendar for special events, or contact us anytime to arrange a visit to the Moore Longhorn Ranch. We offer Daily Ranch Vacations of any duration in addition to special activities for families, women only and Cowboy Schools.