Las Vegas: Horseback Ride & Cowboy Dinner with Hotel Pickup

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Trade the Strip for Desert Trails: Horseback Riding & Starlight Dinner Near Las Vegas

You get picked up from your Las Vegas Strip hotel, driven 45 minutes to a ranch in Moapa, matched with a horse suited to your level, and ride desert trails for 1.5 hours with a wrangler guide. After the ride comes an authentic cowboy BBQ dinner under the stars, then a return to your hotel. Roundtrip transport and all meals are included; helmets are available, and the pace is walk-and-trot only, so it works for first-time riders.

Step-by-step itinerary

Wild West horseback ride and dinner

Pickup from Las Vegas Strip hotel
Drive 45 minutes to horse ranch
Meet wranglers and get horse
Prepare horses for trail ride
Ride 1.5 hours on outlaw trails
Spot wildlife and scenic views
Enjoy authentic western-style dinner
Return to hotel in Las Vegas

The Experience

So you're thinking about getting on a horse for the first time in twenty years, or maybe ever, and you're wondering if you'll actually make it through the 1.5-hour ride without falling off—yeah, that's the thing everyone worries about, and honestly, the wranglers at the ranch in Moapa know it. They match you with a horse that fits your level, and since this is a single-file trail ride, you're not racing anyone. The whole vibe is slow and steady, which means you can actually look around instead of gripping the saddle and praying. The 45-minute drive north from your Las Vegas Strip hotel gets you out of the noise and into actual desert—sagebrush, mountain ridges, the kind of quiet that feels strange after the casinos.

The trails themselves are the real draw. These aren't manicured paths; they're routes that outlaws and Native Americans actually used, and your guide will point out the landscape as you go—bighorn sheep if you're lucky, jackrabbits darting between rocks, cattle grazing in the distance. The mountains are dramatic without being showy, and the whole thing feels less like a tourist activity and more like you stumbled into someone's actual ranch day. You can't gallop or run the horses (safety rules), so it's a walk-and-trot pace, which sounds slow until you realize that's exactly what lets you notice things—the color of the rocks, the way the light hits the ridges late in the afternoon.

After the ride, you sit down to an authentic cowboy BBQ dinner under the stars. The food is real—not fancy, just good—and the campfire happens if the weather cooperates (wind and rain can cancel it, so that's worth knowing). Vegetarian meals are available if you ask when you book. By the time your driver takes you back to your hotel, you've been gone maybe five or six hours total, which means you still have the evening to hit a show or a restaurant on the Strip if you want. The whole thing is designed so you get the Western experience without it eating your entire day.

What’s included

Your day includes roundtrip hotel pickup and dropoff from select Las Vegas Strip hotels, a 1.5-hour guided horseback trail ride with a professional wrangler, an authentic cowboy BBQ dinner beneath the stars, and the 45-minute drive each way to and from the ranch in Moapa.
Helmets are available for all riders and required for children 12 and under.
Vegetarian meals can be requested at checkout.

Good to know

Easy physical level

Operated by Wild West Horseback Adventures

Is this one for you?Pick this if you want to ride desert trails and eat dinner under the stars without arranging your own transport or worrying about timing—the pickup and dropoff handle the logistics, and the wrangler-matched horses mean you can ride at your own pace regardless of experience.