dude ranch

noun

Definition of dude ranch

: a vacation resort offering activities (such as horseback riding) typical of western ranches

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And through April 2019, America's oldest dude ranch is playing host to Under Canvas’s 26 safari-style tents. — Michaela Bechler, Vogue, "How to Do Winter Glamping Right (Among Saguaros in Arizona)," 8 Jan. 2019 So scuttle plans for that all-too-familiar 27,000-acre theme park in central Florida and head instead to a 37,000-acre dude ranch in A River Runs Through It territory. — Priscilla Eakeley, Town & Country, "10 Trips That Are Truly Fun for the Whole Family," 30 Nov. 2016 There are dude ranches, guest ranches, and working ranches. — Ella Riley-adams, Vogue, "I Ditched My Phone for a Montana Cattle Drive (and Finally Dealt With My Feelings)," 3 Oct. 2018 Anyone below, including the hostesses at Pancho Barnes’s dude ranch and tavern near the Mojave test site, heard the ba-boom that trailed the X-1. — Daniel Ford, WSJ, "‘Chasing the Demon’ Review: Boom Times for Jet Pilots," 27 July 2018 The family wound up running a dude ranch in Reno, where his grandfather made dozens of home movies. — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, "A newly discovered film shows Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had polio, walking," 27 June 2018 There was another vacation at a Florida dude ranch. — Barbara Boyer, Philly.com, "'Hate group' leader denies misspending $5.3 million in church donations, pleads not guilty to tax evasion," 8 May 2018 And what about a dude ranch with campfires and cookouts? — Longreads, "The Dying Days of the New West," 8 May 2018 Wild West Glory Turn the holiday into a weeklong escape with the Independence Celebration package at Brush Creek Ranch (from $900 per night), a tony dude ranch in Wyoming’s North Platte River Valley. — Stephanie Granada, Sunset, "10 July 4th Weekend Trips You Can’t Miss," 22 Jan. 2018

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