The Trail Rider

Learn how to check your horse?s pulse, respiration, and temperature with this information from the Certified Horsemanship Association. Bonus video!

Visit southeast Oklahoma, and discover a world of evergreen-covered hills, clear streams, and good horse camps.

Here?s how to help keep your trail horse hydrated and safely cool him down after your ride.

Lake Louisa State Park, located in central Florida, offers a spacious horse camp, ideal winter riding, and fragrant orange groves.

Discover day rides just outside city limits. Zmudowski State Beach, Monterey County, California; Copper Canyon Trail near Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Lady Hawk Farm, LLC, Inverness, Florida.

Dance the mountaintops of the pristine, million-acre Glacier National Park in Montana, where you can ride your own horse, or use an outfitter to take you into the backcountry.

My equine adventure along the California coast came about in an interesting way. I live in Ramona, in the foothills of San Diego County, California.

Assemble your first-aid kit, making sure to include these must-have top five supplies.

Inside Newberry National Volcanic Monument lie two sparkling lakes, a spacious horse camp, and miles of trails. Here?s an exclusive, from-the-saddle report.

Here are five innovative products designed to keep you warm this winter. Bonus on-trail test!

Monument Valley, spanning the Arizona/Utah border, offers pristine trail riding on a quiet Navajo reservation rich in ancient lore.

Every year, Cross Country Trail Ride in Eminence, Missouri, offers riverbank riding in the heart of the Ozarks. Saddle up for an on-trail report and bonus slideshow.

Improve your and your horse?s comfort and control on the trail with the right trail bridle and bit.

Learn how to use a handheld GPS to find your way, map your ride, and save your route for future reference and to share with other riders online.

Bending your horse?s neck using one rein won?t necessarily cause him to stop. Here?s how to do the one-rein stop the right way.

Experience your own private horse heaven at Transfer Horse Camp, located in the San Juan Mountains near Mancos, Colorado.

Here?s a rundown of six products designed to help keep your horse safe during travel.

Head to the Wyoming wilderness for snowcapped peaks, up-close wildlife encounters, sagebrush meadows, delicate wildflowers, and stately stands of trees.

This fall, stay safe on the trail with these five practical hunting-season guidelines.

We take you to Deep Creek Boarding Stables and Camping near Asheville, North Carolina; Vermont Equine Tours near Burlington, Vermont, and Panther Creek Campground and Horse Trails near Jefferson City, Missouri.

Enhance your horse?s health with regular dental care. Here, we tell you how to spot equine dental problems and how to find an qualified equine veterinary dentist.

Learn how to condition your horse before a demanding riding adventure with endurance champion Lari Shea

Go on a riding adventure at Vermont Icelandic Horse Farm, and enjoy scenic rides on spirited, smooth-gaited mounts.

Life is good at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Grasslands in north-central Texas, where miles of marked trails meander through scenic terrain.