Hi Cowboys and Girls,
The dude ranch list is getting pretty long, and we barely started it.
The ranches don't need to actually have horses to make the list.
Here's an alphabetical rough draft. Please post to fill in details
and/or add more names.
Tucson Area Guest Ranches
Bara Nada Ranch
Forty-Niners Guest Ranch Tanque Verde Road
Las Lomas Estates 4500 West Speedway (still operating as apartments)
Lazy Bar C 4832 E. Lee St.
Lazy K Bar Bob says: "Wild horse ranch at the end of
Ina rd.20 acres and main house and 25 Casitas and Huge bar and
Restaurant and pool. John Wayne hangout"
Rancho Del Rio Far west Ajo Way
Rancho Diablo West Ajo Near Ryan Field circa 1930's
Rancho Nezhone
Just across the road, Leonie Boutall, from Tennessee, decided to build
a guest ranch in the early 1930s. The dry climate, her doctor told
her, would relieve her bronchial troubles. Boutall bought 100 acres
of ranch land just west of Oracle Road and south of a narrow dirt
track now called Orange Grove Road, thanks to Reid. Here she built
rancho Nezhone, a luxury guest ranch that drew the rich and famous to
the sparsely settled area far north of Tucson. Kate Smith, Liberace,
Gen. John Pershing and William "Hopalong Cassidy" Boyd were guests of
this fabulous desert retreat. Boutall sold out in 1948.
Reid's Ranchos Palos Verdes
Chamber of Commerce quote, 2005:
One of the first to build a home in the area was Maurice L. Reid who
came to Tucson in 1923 seeking a "walking cure" for tuberculosis. In
the late 1920s Reid bought a 1,500-acrs former ranch, bounded by
Oracle, Orange Grove and Ina roads and La Cholla Boulevard. Reid
planted more than 200 acres of citrus trees and date palms that became
the heart of Tucson's citrus industry. Over the years, Reid sold
parcels of land for home sites and in 1950 sold the last of his land,
some of which is today Ranchos Los Amigos Mobile Home Park.
Shomen Ranch North 1st Av
Triangle JK Ranch E. Fort Lowell
Triple H Guest Ranch 1340 N. Wilmot
Vista Al Norte Ranch E. Fort Lowell
