America has a love affair with cowboy culture, from "Yellowstone" to Beyoncé's latest album. The pandemic supercharged interest in ranches, but buyers are still drawn to them, brokers told BI. Here ...

There’s something undeniably romantic about riding a horse through a cactus-laced desert: the fresh air, the array of colors in the unpolluted sky, and the rugged sense of adventure only a horse can ...

For fresh air and wide-open spaces – and one of the best-kept secrets for a family vacation in the U.S. – consider booking your next vacation at a Western dude ranch. It's a life-changing experience ...

Large, open ranches are often the last wide-open spaces left between growing towns and expanding highway networks. Across much of the American West and Great Plains, these properties still support ...

Ranches across the West, once valued for what they could earn their owners through the cattle trade, are rapidly being bought up by wealthy Americans looking for somewhere to park their cash. Real ...

Dude ranching has been part of the American West for 150 years. Does the industry’s longevity offer clues about how newer recreational activities like rock climbing or snow sports can balance economic ...

The scene is changing rapidly in West Marin as husbandry winds down and residents move out to satisfy a legal settlement.

You may have outgrown the cowboy phase, but that American Dream is still alive and well at these luxury dude ranches across North America. Dude ranches started as a way for East Coast city dwellers to ...

Decades ago, a generation of America’s wealthiest, raised on television shows like “Howdy Doody” and “The Lone Ranger,” headed west with dreams of owning some of the country’s most prestigious ranches ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Allison Olmsted covers lifestyle for active women as The Gear Diva. There is something very compelling about the North American ...

Thanks to its deep agricultural roots, the Lone Star State boasts the most ranches and farms of any state in the U.S. — nearly 250,000, according to the Texas Department of Agriculture. Of course, ...