Children 4 and younger are free. Rooms are stocked with a basket of fruit, breakfast foods, coffee, tea and snacks. Lunch and dinner are available at area restaurants, or the lodge owners can pack a lunch for the trail or deliver groceries or hot meals to your cabin. The lodge has direct access to more than 40 miles of hiking, biking and riding trails in the adjacent 5,550-acre Hill Country State Natural Area, which also offers birding and other nature viewing. The natural area is one of the state's largest for horseback riding, Ms. Moore says.
Clinics are limited to four participants.
Mr. Lovett says proudly. If you don't ride horses, camels may be more your style. Big Bend Ranch State Park once again will offer five two-day camel treks through the Chihuahuan Desert. Only six riders per outing. At the request of last year's participants, the group will camp out instead of staying in the park's bunkhouse.