A summer vacation at Tarryall River Ranch will never be forgotten!  The magnificent Rocky Mountain scenery and the clear Colorado weather combined with great activities and warm hospitality will provide the vacation of a lifetime! 

Howdy! We are the Tesch Family and welcome you to the Tarryall River Ranch!  We are proud of our Colorado dude ranch and invite you into our home here in Western Colorado.  Take a family vacation in Colorado with us once and you’ll be back again!  At Tarryall River Ranch everyone becomes a friend and a part of our family.  You will love the Western spirit – easy going, fun loving, and hard working.  It has a way of rubbing off on folks and you are welcome to take some home.  We invite you into our high country home to share our ranch lifestyle and to gain an experience of the true west like no other!

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Our Story... how the dream became reality!

The Western lifestyle has always been an integral part of our lives, but it wasn't until after being guests ourselves at a dude ranch that we realized Dude Ranching was a unique way to share our way of life and dreams of living out West!

Kevin was the first one to expand the mold of our Midwest (Iowa) lifestyle by going to help a friend on his dude ranch in Colorado. The next summer Kevin and Lisa and the family took the opportunity to visit a dude ranch and had the vacation-of-a-lifetime!

A few years later, Kelvin, our oldest son and now our Head Wrangler worked at that same Colorado ranch where he met his wife Bridget, now our Head Cook. Kurtis, our second son, also worked at that same Colorado ranch. Kevin continued helping out at that ranch for short periods of time for about ten years.

None of us have ever experienced a vacation where we went to a place, met complete strangers, and left with tears in our eyes, feeling that we were leaving a part of ourselves behind. We knew then a dude ranch was the perfect avenue for us to share our love for horses and our passion for the Western lifestyle with others.

Our third and fourth sons, Kody and Klayton, undoubtedly would have followed in their older brothers footsteps except for the fact that we were blessed with the opportunity to run our own dude ranch.

As the story goes... one thing led to another and before long we were loading the horses on the trailer and heading West to the Tarryall River Ranch in Lake George, Colorado! Now, every summer all of us in the Tesch Family thoroughly enjoy sharing in a unique and special opportunity with so many great people from all over the world!

We hope you will check out the rest of our website and stop by our corner of the west and see why we say...

Remember: There are No Strangers
in Our Corner of the West!

Thanks for dropping in and checking out Tarryall!  We invite you to come on out and experience the fun and excitement of a guest ranch vacation which we experienced ourselves as a family and are now sharing with everyone who stays in our corner of the West!  Shoot us an email or give Kevin or Lisa a call anytime.  We will gladly answer any of your questions and tell you all about Tarryall and how your family can have a Colorado Dude Ranch vacation everyone will love and will be talking about long, LONG after your stay with us!  Come share our corner of the West!  Happy Trails...