Cornerstone Ranch News

  The Wild Child Express Trolley at Cornerstone Ranch offers delicious, healthy dinners and sides on Saturdays and Sundays, yummy, local ice cream on Fridays, as well as picnics prepared specifically for your horse-drawn ride or for when you return from your trail ride.

See Cornerstone Ranch as featured in the May 2024 New England Living show televised by CBS News.

At Cornerstone Ranch, we prioritize the well-being and care of our horses. Here we provide a brief overview of their lives and the attention they receive. From daily activities to diet and health care, we ensure each horse lies a fulfilling and healthy life. Calm, safe, and well-mannered horses with good backgrounds can be hard…

I grew up on a small horse farm in Vermont and really wanted to get back into riding and working around Horses so I saw this ad for Cornerstone and immediately had to jump on the opportunity! I started working at Cornerstone Ranch in October 2023 and have loved every minute spent working on the…

Join us in our dedication toward better horsemanship and advocacy for all horses. Horses are without a doubt the most important farm animal! Here are recent statistics which serve as testament to this statement: The horse industry contributes $50 billion to the US economy. There are 90,000 wild horses in just 10 western US. The…

Local school’s new welding project displayed at Cornerstone Ranch Two hard-working students at Franklin County Technical School created the beautiful new wrought iron horse head decoration as part of a fundraiser to support the school shop’s Certification program. The students, Hunter Lanoue and Colby Merit, who raises and rides Morgan horses, built a total of…

1. When did you start riding at Cornerstone and did you first discover Cornerstone, as a student, trail rider, or staff inquiry? I first started riding at Cornerstone about 10 years ago, and I began as a consistent lesson student throughout middle school and some of high school. I then worked in our Wild Child…

1. When did you start riding at Cornerstone and did you first discover Cornerstone, as a student, trail rider, or staff inquiry? I came to Cornerstone for the first time for a trail ride on Columbus Day back in the fall 2020. I teach elementary school music, and we were right in the middle of…

When did you start riding at Cornerstone and did you first discover Cornerstone, as a student, trail rider, or staff inquiry?      I started riding at Cornerstone when I was 14 years old! My mom found the ranch in search of a summer activity for my little sister and I. Soon enough, a summer…

Back in the days of horse-drawn transportation, why did some people have their bells custom made incorporating different sizes of bells? MA General Laws, Chapter 89, Section 3: No person shall travel on a way with a sleigh or sled drawn by a horse, unless there are at least three bells attached to some part…