This scene is from a ranch in Wickenburg, Arizona. Looks like they're planning something big!

Along Wickenburg's main historic district, early businesses built beautiful structures that still grace Wickenburg's downtown area. The abundant clean air and wide-open spaces attracted a whole new and exciting aspect of the Wickenburg neighborhood.

Guest ranches offered a unique western experience to tourists who fell in love with the West. The Bar FX Ranch became the first true guest ranch in 1923, followed by the Remudas, Kay El Bar, Rancho de los Caballeros, and Flying E ranches, just to mention a few. The construction of the Phoenix to California highway (Highway 60) brought even more tourists, making Wickenburg the Dude Ranch Capital of the World.

Today, some of these ranches still offer their unique brand of Western hospitality.