Longacres Riding Camp - Where else can you ride 5 hours a day?

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Longacres Barn & Facilities

 

Longacres Barn

Above: View of our barn with informal riders waiting for trail ride

above: Crista on Quantum

loose horses coming in from pasture


THE STABLES
Our horse barn is 170 feet long with a center aisle and box stalls along both sides. There's also a ten foot wide covered porch all long the front.


Other Longacres Buildings
Parents, especially, want to know the condition of our buildings and other facilities. The answer is, "It's a mixed bag"! Longacres will turn 66 years old this summer. There are many advantages to a place that's been in the horse business that long, but an easy maintenance schedule is not one of them!

As you can see in the above photos, we have a very nice horse barn that is well maintained. The main house where we have the office and get together for video's and other events is pretty fancy, too. The dining hall is one of the oldest buildings in the camp. We maintain it well, but you can tell it's been around longer than most of US.


The sleeping cabins are also well maintained and painted, but they are not fancy. They are small cabins, red with white trim on the outside, and knotty pine paneled on the inside. They sleep 5 to 7 students.

We have a good running water toilet house in the central camp area, a decent wash room, and an OK older shower room, freshly painted. I would say the shower room is our least nice facility.

Old Buildings
We have many older buildings on the grounds that were used years ago when we ran a much larger general interest camp program in addition to the horse program. Many of those older bunks and storage buildings have been torn down in the past couple of years.  Some of our old friends who visit Longacres to remember their youth have trouble recognizing some parts of the farm that have been returned to nature!

Facility Summary
The things that are important to our riding program are in great shape. We have a beautiful barn, our horse jumps are absolutely first class, and we spend a lot of money mowing and manicuring huge riding fields, the dressage ring, and meadows and trails.

The other buildings we use often like the dining hall and sleeping cabins are well maintained. There are other buildings on the grounds that we don't use, don't maintain beyond a coating of paint, and show their age! I hope this description gives you a better idea of what you'll see on a visit to Longacres.

The pictures on this page give you a virtual tour of our barn, horse jumps, riding areas, and other facilities.

Below: A practice paddock right next to the barn.  You may ride here for your first evaluation when you get to Longacres or a few times if you are a beginner.  Then it will be on to our show field and larger rings and riding areas.

Below:  Our main jumping field with some of the jumps.

Below:  The small show ring

 

Below: The "Pulverman" and other jumps set up for a big show.

Below:  The bank jump ready for a show

Below: Your energetic camp owner, Tom Kranz, trying to pull a big log off the trail. LOTS of this during the spring months!!!!!!! "Pegasus Cabin" is just off to the right of the picture, "Esseress Cabin" in the background.

Below:  painting the jumps just before we open for the summer

 

Below: "Pegasus" bunk cabin. A shot of one of the two bunks we use for students taken during early spring.

Below: The inside of "Pegasus Cabin". Nice knotty pine paneling, glass windows, some typical poster decoration on the walls. Note the small rugs on the floor - we suggest you bring one. Note the turned over pop can on the table; typical "camper junk"!

 

Below: A view of the outside of the Lodge / Dining Hall (March 5)

 

Below: A view taken inside the dining hall in 2004

Below:  Another shot of the inside of the Dining Hall

 

Below: A view inside the shower and wash house. This is the washroom side, with an identical set of sinks to the left.

 

Below: A view in the door of the main flush toilet room. This is a well maintained building.

 

 

Last Pic . . . beautiful scenery!!!!! I took a long walk around the camp this morning (March 8, 00), and took some new digital photo's. Here's one taken at the creek that flows for half a mile along one side of Longacres property. The camp is on the right bank as you look down the river in this picture. Note that the water level is a lot lower during the summer when we go "sneaker-creeking" here! - Tom