Private and group

Your own time on the bluff

A private ride for your party, a birthday at the barn, a day for your team, or a night in a pod above the trail.

Booking opens on leydenhorsemanship.com, our booking site. Same barn, same team.

Private and group

Make it yours

A rider walks a palomino through the surf

Private

Private VIP Equestrian Experience

Just your party and your guide, on the bluff trail and down to the sand when the tide allows.

See the private ride

The barn at Ocean View Stables

Birthdays

Birthday parties at the barn

Kids, teen and adult parties: four hours at the barn from $900, then add horse rides, the goats and more. With horse rides you get as many rides as a single horse can give in your party time; for a bigger group, add a second horse.

Plan a birthday

Two riders in the surf at sunset, backlit

Evenings, from January 2027

Sunset Ride and Cowboy Cookout

An evening beach ride, then BBQ dinner at the barn. Friday and Saturday evenings.

See the evening ride

Pods on the bluff above the ocean, from the air

Stays

Stay by the Sea

Our Horse Retreat, minutes from the San Francisco Zoo: private pods on the bluff by the night, always booked together with a horse experience (a ride, a lesson or Sip and Paint). A Large Pod is $650 and a Tiny House $450; we do not rent a pod on its own. Or the all-in Cowboy Weekend from January 2027.

See the stays

Teams, weddings and weekends

For groups

Corporate and leadership days

Ground-based leadership work with the herd; no riding required.

Need the whole ranch for a day? Rent the ranch.

Corporate team building

The leadership clinic

A monthly clinic on leadership through horsemanship, on the ground with the herd.

See the clinic

Weddings on the bluff

A ceremony above the Pacific and a reception in the hay barn, planned with OVS Weddings.

Ranch weddings with OVS Weddings

Cowboy Weekend

A weekend on the coast with the horses, from January 2027.

See the weekend

The stable aisle in the barn

Photography

Horse photography

Bring your photographer; we bring the horse, a handler for the whole session, and the ocean-view bluffs, barn and round pen. Standard and golden hour sessions.

Book a standard session

Book a golden hour session

Tell us what you have in mind

Send the date, the size of your group and what you want to do, and the team will come back to you.

Booking opens on Leyden Horsemanship, our booking site. Same barn, same team.