My TripAdvisor Review No.558: Willow Ranch, Valemount, BC, Canada.

Breakfast At A Ranch.

Discover Canada Tours organized this trip to the Willow Ranch for breakfast on the last day of a four day trip of the Canadian Rockies. It was like leaving the best for the last.

After checking out from our hotel in Valemount early morning at 7 am were driven down to the ranch a little distance away from the hotel. Real cowboys and horses were waiting for us. Willow Ranch is a real ranch with horses, donkeys, a breakfast kitchen, 2 bonfires, a broken down jalopy, and real cowboys and ranchers.

We started with a cup of black coffee and got a plate of hash browns, and a muffin with a cheese slice and a tomato slice. We had to serve ourselves directly from the open ranch kitchen which is run by the resident family. There were wooden tables and benches besides the kitchen and ranch house.

Then there was a session of lassoing, throwing, hammering a nail in to a log of wood, and some dancing. Everyone had a jolly time here with us learning to lasso and line-dance with our new friends from around the world. Even our dignified friend from Japan was enjoying doing the line dance.

They do have some cabins for lodging as well as a gift shop where you can buy some cowboy style stuff. They arrange horse riding trips on the mountain trails too.

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Date of experience: August 2019

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My TripAdvisor Review No.557: Rocky Inn, Valemount, BC, Canada.

Motel With A Frontier Feel.

This accommodation was booked for us by our tour group organiser. We stopped here just for one night after spending the evening shopping and sight-seeing in Jasper town.

The hotel had a feel of a real frontier town motel as the building structure was made from logs of wood, there was a wide open parking space for many cars and buses, and a central log cabin with a pit for a campfire with benches and picnic tables to sit around and enjoy a barbecue party. In fact, that is exactly how our group enjoyed the chilly evening having a barbecue dinner around the fire. We were served with barbecued sausages and rolls, with vegetarian patties for the vegans, and coleslaw salad, with everyone learning how to make marsh-mellows on the open fire from our tour guide. It was great fun.

Our ground floor wooden cabin was quite basic but comfortable with three large beds, and a small dining table with chairs. The bathroom was spotless and had a tub with the basic toiletries. There was wi-fi but no microwave, tea or coffee maker in our room.

Being located next to the Southern Yellowstone Highway we went out for a morning walk in the open areas around Swift Creek and George Hicks Regional Park nearby. We did not have breakfast at the hotel but checked out with our group for an outdoor breakfast and dance at Willow Ranch.

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Date of stay: August 2019

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