Trail Rides At Pioneer Outfitters
One-and-a-Half Hour Rides
$70 + tax Per Person - 2 Person Minimum
The Gold creek ride is a perfect trail for beginners, you will have a great time on our experienced mountain horses. It travels up gold creek crossing streams and climbing about 500 feet into high meadows, making a big loop through beautiful aspens.
The Salmon river loop is a perfect ride for beginners, your kids will smile as their horse crosses the knee-deep waters of the salmon river. Traveling north along the salmon river you have a chance to see everything from spawning salmon to bald eagles. Staying in the shady pines throughout most of the ride is perfect for hot sultry days of summer. While crossing the cool salmon river you will hear your kids laughing as their horses splash through the water.
*Riding restrictions include anyone under 6 years of age and guests weighing over 250 pounds. Exceptions are sometimes made on weight if you are exceptionally tall.
Half Day Rides
$100 + tax Per Person - 2 Person Minimum
Gold Creek Overlook you can beat the view and our most popular ride, an extension of our 1 and 1/2 hour ride. Continuing up through additional aspen and pine groves to a ridge overlooking the Sawtooth Valley. When we reach the top you will get the chance to stop and stretch your legs, take pictures and take in the view at 1000 feet above the valley floor. Climb back in the saddle for a leisurely ride back down the valley to the corrals. This ride works well with 8 yr olds and up, and occasionally with really tough 6 yr olds
Salmon River Run is a 3-hour extension of our 1 and 1/2 hour ride Traveling north along the salmon river you have a chance to see everything from spawning salmon to bald eagles. Staying in the shady pines throughout most of the ride is perfect for hot sultry days of summer. The addition is a fun ride through mountain meadows filled with flowers and babbling brooks. A perfect ride for those guests who love horses and love to ride.
Decker Flat Loop crosses the Salmon River and travels south along the river. Turns up through mountain meadows and through a 20-year-old timber cut, it's amazing to see how fast the trees come back, topping out at 7000 feet in elevation. It's a leisurely ride down a tree-covered ridge and turning north riding along the Salmon River returning to the corrals.
*Riding restrictions include anyone under 6 years of age and guests weighing over 250 pounds. Exceptions are sometimes made on weight if you are exceptionally tall.
Pony Rides
$40 + tax Per Child
Perfect for kids younger than 6. Our gentle horses are a safe way to introduce youngsters to the joys of horseback riding. One of our guides spends 30 minutes teaching kids individually while walking around the corrals. We are only available when we have guides available. Your child must be able to hold on and sit in the saddle by themselves.
All Day Rides
$150 + tax Per Person - 4 Person Minimum
Casino Lakes Rides
Casino Lakes full day is a beautiful 10-mile ride round trip. Starting off at the Boundary Creek trailhead (5.5 miles south of Stanley, across the highway from the Sawtooth fish hatchery, and then up the Forest Service road a mile).
Once in the saddle, we quickly ride up through high mountain meadows filled with mountain wildflowers, lodgepole, douglas fir, and white pine trees on top.. Cresting out 9500 feet in elevation it gives you an amazing view of the entire Sawtooth range.
After a quick break, we will drop down into the lakes for a relaxing lunch, if you brought your fishing gear a chance at mountain Cutthroat trout await you. The ride home is the best as you look across the valley at Redfish Lake and the Sawtooth Range.
Chamberlain Lakes Ride
This is a beautiful ride that leaves from the Fourth of July trailhead, 13 miles up Fourth of July Road. It travels past Fourth of July and Washington Lakes through 10 miles of pine tree forest.
It then rises over a pass to Chamberlain Basin to view Castle Peak, one of the most photographed peaks in the state of Idaho. This is a long ride, so you will want to be in shape or be used to riding for this 20-mile round trip.
$15 extra charge for this trip. Includes opportunity to fish.
Redfish Inlet
Leaving from our corrals located at the Idaho Rocky Mountain Ranch, this ride follows a beautiful nine-mile loop through towering Lodgepole, Douglas fir pine trees, and high mountain meadows. We will ride up below the Grand Moguls of the Sawtooth Range. After cresting over the top the ride drops down to the inlet of Redfish Lake, where we have leisurely lunch. This is where it seems Heyburn peak seems to rise out of the lake to touch the sky. Then we are back in the saddle riding the ridge following the length of the lake on our way back to the corrals. Pictures coming soon!
Horton Peak
Horton Peak is one of the highest places in the Stanley basin accessible by horse. It's an old fire lookout abandoned by the forest service. Your ride will start out from the Horton Peak trailhead, along Valley Road south of Stanley. and will quickly climb up through groves of quaking aspen trees and Douglas fir. Reaching the top, you have a view of the entire Sawtooth range and Stanley basin. You will also be able to see most of the White Cloud Mountains from the top at 9896 feet, over 3000 feet above the valley floor. Pictures from the peak coming soon.
* Riding restrictions include anyone under 6 years of age and guests weighing over 250 pounds. Exceptions are sometimes made on weight if you are exceptionally tall.
All-day rides include a sack lunch with a sandwich, chips, juice, and a water bottle.
*All rides are subject to Idaho sales tax and a 3% forest service use fee. Gratuity is not included.
