All guided rides begin in Dunrovin’s arena with individual instruction and coaching to ensure that rider and horse are well matched and communicating effectively. Guests staying at Dunrovin for more than two nights receive a 10% discount on guided rides.
Ranch rides are short rides on the ranch and adjacent public land. We take you along the river, through the meadows, across the Bitterroot River and up the mountain side for some beautiful views.
3 hours.................................................................................................................................$110/person
Scheduled trail adventures group riders with Equestrian Club Members for regularly scheduled trail rides to a variety of locations. Visitors have an opportunity to learn about the area from riding with local club members. Riders bring their own lunch and snacks. The maximum number of riders is eight.
Part Day Scheduled Adventure
4-6 hours............................................................................................................................ $135/person
Full Day Scheduled Adventure
6-9 hours............................................................................................................................ $200/person
Personalized trail adventures include only the members of a single group. The location of the ride and the speed of the horses are tailored to the group’s interests and riding skills. A picnic lunch is included. The minimum number of riders is three and the maximum is eight.
Part Day Personalized Adventures
3 rider minimum, 4-6 hours............................................................................................ $160/person
Full Day Personalized Adventures
3 rider minimum, 6-9 hours.............................................................................................$250/person
Corral Sessions give groups an opportunity to experience horses within the safe confines of the ranch’s corral. Corral Sessions include riding instruction and horseback games. It’s perfect for family outings with small children, families with mixed generations, or visitors who want to “give it a go”.
5 riders, 2 hours..............................................................................................................................$300
Additional riders....................................................................................................................... $50/rider
Addtional hour per rider................................................................................................. $20/hour/rider
Weekly Riding Passes entitle the rider to participate in scheduled daily riding activities for six days. This includes full and part day scheduled trail rides, ranch rides, corral sessions, horsemanship sessions, and horse games.
Weekly Riding Pass..........................................................................................................$700/person
PONY Sessions give youngsters to get a chance to ride our handsome and friendly pony Cool Dude.
1 hour......................................................................................................................................... $35/child
RIDING LESSONs are private or group, for one or more hours, and either in our arena or on the trail. Prices vary with instructors.
Riding Lesson........................................................................................................... $50-$100/lesson
Week Day Retreats at Dunrovin
Accommodations, Meals, Activities
5 Night Week Day Retreat - May—Oct - Contact Dunrovin for Available Dates
Dunrovin’s popularity as a venue for outdoor weddings and special events keeps it busy during most weekends. Week days, however, bring back the quiet of the country and make Dunrovin the PERFECT place for a group retreat. Our small, private setting create an intimate family atmosphere that encourages camaraderie, relaxation, and just plain fun. Our 5 Night Week Day Retreats run from Sunday afternoon through Friday morning. Should Dunrovin be fee either the weekend before or after your scheduled retreat —your group can extend its stay with up to two night’s free accommodations. Retreats generally adhere to the following itinerary:
Schedules vary with season and group interests. We follow your interests to create a week that is tailored to your group’s desires and skills—and we are always ready to seize the moment when something special pops up!
5 Night Week Day Retreat - The Larger the Group, The Lower the Price
Price per Person by Number in Group and Type of Retreat
| Number in Group | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Economy Retreat You Do the Cooking (we supply the food) and Housekeeping |
$2,000 | $1,200 | $1,150 | $1,100 | $1,050 | $1,000 |
| Deluxe Retreat Fine Dining Every Meal; Daily Cleaning; Full Body Massage |
$2,400 | $1,600 | $1,500 | $1,400 | $1,300 | $1,200 |
Special Weeks at Dunrovin
All Inclusive — Accommodations, Meals,
Women’s Week - July 9 — 16 - 8 Nights - $2,150/person (double occupancy)
Start with a women’s fly fishing clinic by experts from local fly fishing shops, Grizzly Hackle and the Missoulian Angler. Work with psychologist and horsewoman, Coe Dolven, to examine women’s connection to nature, animals, and women friends. Hone your horseback riding skills with lessons and games. Ride to a forest lookout to spend an unforgettable night touring the stars through a high powered telescope with astronomer, Dr. Diane Friend. Put your new fly fishing skills to use with a full day guided river float. Dine on fine food; enjoy a gourmet picnic in the park with the Missoula Symphony, and treat yourself to a full body massage. What a Week!
Mothers & Daughters - July 31 — August 6 - 7 Nights - $2,400/pair (double occupancy)
What better way to get to know your adolescent daughter than to spend a week together learning to horseback ride, fly fish, and camp with horses. Team up for the Mother/Daughter Olympics with horse games, inner tube floats, trick roping, and fly casting. Decorate the wildest cowgirl hat or paint the prettiest pony. Let horsewoman and psychologist, Coe Dolven, lead you and your daughter through some fun team work games that will help you better communicate with each other and talk about the things that really count in life. The relaxed and fun atmosphere of Dunrovin will encourage you and your daughter to expand each other horizons, see each other through different eyes, and find new ways to relate and enjoy each other’s company.
Homecoming and Harvest - Sept 24 — Sept 29 - 5 Nights - $2,400/couple
Go Griz! Wear your maroon and white and join in the raucous University of Montana homecoming parade and game. This is one of the best times of year to be in western Montana with it beautiful fall colors, crisp nights, and warm days. Bring your camera for a spectacular horseback ride to Lolo Peak when the Western Hemlock in their autumn gold; spend a full day floating and fishing on the Bitterroot River; and take in the valley’s fall colors from a ride along the ridge overlooking the ranch. Enjoy some of the spoils from Dunrovin’s ample vegetable garden and orchard. Participate in turning the produce into delectable treats such as homemade cider, dry fruits and vegetables, or fruit preserves that you can take home as edible mementoes of your Dunrovin stay. Autumn really is the best time of year for football, riding, fishing, and dining straight from the garden and orchard!
Discover Horses celebrates the unique relationship that exists between horse and man – one of partnership, trust, strength, and beauty. Through hands-on experiences, Discover Horses program participants discover the ways of the horse; and, in so doing, discover something about themselves.
Program for Riders and Non Riders Alike
Discover Horses is intended for anyone with the desire to know more about horses. The program emphasizes learning about horses within many different contexts at many different levels – from beginning to expert horsemanship, to the spiritual connection between horses and humans, to understanding horse language and herd behavior. Regularly scheduled Discover Horses learning sessions and other events let program members experience horses under a wide range of circumstances. While riding is encouraged and supported, it is optional.
Program Structured Around Learning Sessions - Both With and About Horses!
Learning sessions with horses focus on horsemanship skills and connecting with horses. Sessions include:
Learning sessions about horses focus on understanding different aspects of horses—their role in human cultures, in literature, in mythology, in the arts, and the science of horse behavior and biology. Sessions include:
Discover Horses Sessions - March—November - Prices Vary
Discover Horses learning sessions are offered periodically throughout the year. Check the Dunrovin Ranch web site for a current calendar of Discover Horses sessions. Prices for Discover Horses Sessions vary and depend on session length, instructors, and required materials. Some sessions require registration through Missoula County Schools’ Continuing Adult Education Program.
Leadership Training Through Interactions with Horses
Horses are unique among domesticated animals. They are one of few prey animals with which humans establish meaningful relationships. Humans are predators and we see the world through the eyes of the hunter; horses are prey, and they see the world through the eyes of the hunted. This fundamental and profound difference in world views requires both species – humans and horses – to step outside themselves to establish a meaningful relationship with each other.
Horses’ prey instincts and natural sensitivity to their environment enable them to give us feedback on our own behavior. They “read” our emotions and intentions – our fear, anger, trust, or confidence; and they react accordingly. Their reactions are neither subtle nor delayed, but clear and immediate. Horses are not influenced by the distinctions that may have great meaning to us in our world, such as body size and shape, age, gender, social standing, job, or career position, mean nothing to them. We are all simply potential predators to them.
Leading the Herd Leadership Program uses horses’ sensitivity to humans to examine our ways of leading and communicating. Program participants become more effective leaders in the human world by learning to be effective leaders in the horses’ world. Through a number of “hands on” exercises and activities with horses, participants learn key aspects of effective leadership in both the human and horse worlds. The horses are the teachers—we facilitate by creating the right circumstances for learning. Sessions are tailored to the each group’s specific goals, back grounds, and structure. You will learn a great deal about yourself by learning about horses!
Pricing - All Sessions Require a Minimum of 10 Participants
Full Day Adult Leadership Training Package (Corporate).........................................$200/person
Full Day Adult Leadership Training (Institutions/Nonprofits)....................................$150/person
8 hours/day; morning and afternoon snacks; lunch
Part Day Adult Training.......................................................................................................$75/person
4 hours/day; snacks
Discounted Student Prices
Full Day Student (ages 8 – 18) Training and Recreation............................................$65/person
8 to 10 hours/day; morning and afternoon snacks; lunch; horseback riding
Part Day Student (ages 8 – 18) Training.........................................................................$45/person
4 hours/day; snacks
Guided or unguided
fishing and floating
Available March - November
The Bitterroot River is a Mecca for fly fishermen, kayakers, floaters, inner tubers, swimmers, and bird watchers. Dunrovin Ranch has over ½ mile of Bitterroot River access with some of the very best fishing, a great spring fed swimming hole, and sandy beaches.
Dunrovin Ranch is proud to partner with local outfitter Grizzly Hackle to offer a variety of fishing packages. The Grizzly Hackle has a dedicated crew that has introduced thousands of anglers - beginners and experts alike - to the trout of western Montana. With one of the finest guide staffs along side a full service fly shop, the Grizzly Hackle is here to meet your every need. Hailing from all over, our professional "trout bums" live to get all of our clients into fish. Whether you want to fish all day long or want to learn the finer points of stripping streamers, they love to do it all. Each guide is an accomplished nympher, dry fly fisherman, and oarsman; but more importantly, each has the river and life experience to make a day on the water a rare gem. We are extremely lucky to be located at the junction of four of the greatest trout streams in the lower 48. Within an hour in every direction we have over 150 miles of navigable water just full of wild rainbows, cutthroat, brookies, browns, and cutbows! Unlike a lot of other areas we are blessed with having roughly 85 - 90% of our fishing done with dry flies!
Guided Canoe Trips are available on the Bitterroot River. Trips begin at an up-river access point and terminate at Dunrovin Ranch.
Guided Canoe Trips are available on the Bitterroot River. Trips begin up-river and terminate at Dunrovin Ranch
Part Day Guided Canoe Trip
2 person minimum - 4 hours.............................................................................................. $125/rider
Full Day Guided Canoe Trip (includes picnic and swimming in route)
2 person minimum - 6 hours...........................................................................................$160/person
Canoe and Inner TubES are available to explore the river or cool off with some wet fun on a hot summer day.
Canoe Rental - 3 person maximum / canoe............................................................ $50/canoe/day
Canoe Rental (Dunrovin Guest).................................................................................. $45/canoe/day
Inner Tube Rental..................................................................................................................... $15/tube
Inner Tube Rental (Dunrovin Guest)............................................................................................. Free
Shuttle (depending on distance)............................................................................................$8-40/ trip
guided FISHING and fly fishing lessons can be arranged through one of Missoula's fly fishing buinesses.
Per Day ......................Variable depending on Each Business................ $300-$400/person/day
A Day at dunrovin - ranch package offers special discounted prices on individual services to create a full day of activities
A Day at Dunrovin combines a morning trail ride, picnic lunch at the ranch, and an afternoon of river recreation.
PACKAGE A - Scheduled Part Day Trail Ride plus Part Day Guided Canoe Trip
3 person minimum.........................................................................................................................$250
PACKAGE b - Scheduled Part Day Trail Ride plus (unguided) Inner Tube Floating and Shuttle
3 person minimum........................................................................................................................ $155
PACKAGE c - Ranch Ride plus Guided Canoe Trip
3 person minimum......................................................................................................................... $225
PACKAGE d - Ranch Ride plus (unguided) Inner Tube Floating and Shuttle
3 person minimum......................................................................................................................... $130
Dunrovin Ranch Cottage Rentals
Are open all year
With only two guest units, Dunrovin offers a very private setting for vacationing families as well as business travelers.
The French Cottage overlooks the garden, and the scenic Bitterroot River. The studio apartment includes one queen bed, two twin beds, a twin fold out bed, full bath, full kitchen, sitting area, and dining area, air conditioning, and a private patio deck.
Per Night ...........................................................................................................................................$175
Per Week........................................................................................................................................$1,100
The Garden Cottage opens onto the garden path and is fully handicap accessible. It has two separate parts – the Garden Bedroom Suit and the Garden Studio. They can be rented as one large unit or two small units.
The Garden Bedroom Suite has one queen bed, one twin bed, and a full bath.
The Garden Studio has one queen bed, one twin bed, one fold-out bed, a full bath, full kitchen,
dining area, and sitting area.
Garden Bedroom Suit
Per Night........................................................................................................................................... $100
Per Week.......................................................................................................................................... $600
Garden Studio
Per Night........................................................................................................................................... $130
Per Week.......................................................................................................................................... $780
Full Garden Cottage
Per Night .......................................................................................................................................... $215
Per Week........................................................................................................................................ $1300
Both French Cottage and Garden Cottage
Per Night .......................................................................................................................................... $350
Per Week........................................................................................................................................ $2,200
Dog are Welcomeas long at they are compatible with other dogs and people, not allowed on furniture in the guest units, do not bark or disturb others, and are safe around livestock.
Dog / night.......................................................................................................................................... $20
Refundable dog damage /cleaning deposit.............................................................................. $100
Dunrovin Ranch Guest Discounts are offered on Dunrovin Ranch horseback riding, river recreation, and other services.
Budget Vacations - can be created by gathering a group together to share the cost of renting the accommodations and adding a Weekly Riding Pass. For example a group of six riders — three couples, or six friends, or three parent/child pairs —for one week:
One Week Both Units...................................................................................................................$2,200
Six Weekly Riding Passes with Guest Discount.....................................................................$3,780
Total (exclusive of meals and bed tax)......................................................................................$5,980
Cost per person.............................................................................................................................. $997
