Day to Day: Ranching is Hard Work

 
Cold Creek Ranch is a working ranch -- not a resort!  The cow business is our mainstay. Planned activities can change in a moment if a fence breaks or a cow gets in trouble.  We welcome people interested in a real Western experience to join our daily tasks, which might include:

• riding, feeding, and shoeing horses
• gathering, branding, and moving cattle
• packing salt and checking water
• roping and branding (in season)
• clearing brush and checking fences
• making jerky or prickly pear syrup (our favorite!)
• shooting practice
• dutch oven cooking
  

You can also hike and birdwatch or just sit on the porch and enjoy the weather -- see the "weather guarantee" included with our rates. You can learn about self-sufficiency.  We live off the grid and are finishing up a water harvesting system to supply the irrigation needs for the brand new orchard and edible landscaping.   

Off Ranch Activities There are a number of interesting day trips that can be made out from Cold Creek Ranch.  Within a 2 1/2 hour drives there are: The Apache Reservation, Mt. Graham and its observatory, the largest copper mine in North America, The Catwalk in New Mexico, several hot springs, ghost towns and of course, Tombstone.