Ponderosa Ranch
Contact Info
DONNA L STEINEKE
Phone: 308-665-1585
Fax:
Additional Info
Public or Private Destination: Private
Type of Shoots: Archery, Muzzleloader, Rifle
Game/Birds Offered: Mule Deer, Merriam Turkey
Gun Dogs:
Other Hunting/Sporting Opportunities: Bird Watching, Horseback Riding, Railroad
Lodging: Cabins, Camping
Ponderosa Ranch, our 3300 acre Nebraska working cattle ranch, is located 70 miles south of the Black Hills of South Dakota. Our ranch boasts of a rugged beauty in its diversity; spectacular views in every direction, open rolling grass meadows, steep hills, ridges studded with Ponderosa pine trees, canyons with Green Ash, Hackberry and Cottonwood lining the creek bottoms.
This makes a challenging terrain for the hunter or horseback rider but a haven for mule deer and Merriam turkey. This same terrain provides excellent opportunities for archery, muzzleloader and rifle hunters.
Merriam's Turkey Hunting
The Ponderosa Ranch offers semi-guided hunting on this scenic 3,300-acre working ranch which is on top of the Pine Ridge area of Northwest Nebraska. Our package includes up to 5 nights, 5 meals, and 4 days of semi-guided hunting. For the shotgun season, we can handle one or two groups of 2 to 4 hunters. If there are two groups, each group will have one end of the ranch entirely to themselves.
Semi-guided means that we will drive you around the ranch to show you where fences, gates, stock tanks/creeks and boundary fences are. Plan to arrive at the Ponderosa Ranch early afternoon (during daylight) the day before your hunt starts. You will be provided with a topographic ranch map. The headquarter area is situated in the center of the ranch. You can either walk from the cabin to hunt, or may need a 4x4 vehicle
Nebraska Merriam turkey hunting is a great outdoor adventure. The Pine Ridge area of Nebraska is prime turkey habitat with its pine covered ridges, open meadows and tree lined creek bottoms. Nebraska turkey hunters love the challenge of finding the turkey roosting trees, and locating the turkey activity. The wild turkey gobbling provides the back ground music.
Hunting turkeys on this Nebraska ranch is challenging because of the terrain and also because the turkey are cautious and smart. However, hunters who have patience and cunning have a good chance to bag a Nebraska Merriam’s turkey, and get that grand slam. Ponderosa Ranch with its home cooking and family atmosphere create great memories for Nebraska hunters.
Four-Day Hunting Package
Turkey: $700 (2nd turkey $250 extra) - A 50% deposit holds the reservation and full payment due 60 days prior to the opening of the season. Package includes: four day hunt, 5 nights lodging and 5 main meals. Nebraska Sales & Lodging Tax will be added to the price.
2010 Spring Season
(dates tentative)
Shotgun: April 17 - May 23
Archery: March 25 - May 23
2009 Fall Season
Shotgun: Oct. 13-Nov. 13
Nov. 23 - Dec. 31
Archery: Oct. 1- Nov.13
Nov. 23 - Dec. 31
White Tail and Mule Deer
The Ponderosa Ranch offers semi-guided hunting on this scenic 3,300-acre working cattle ranch which is on top of the Pine Ridge area of Northwest Nebraska. Our package includes lodging up to 5 nights, 5 meals, and 4 days of semi-guided hunting. Extra meals are available. For the rifle season, we take two groups of 3 to 4 hunters each. Each group will have one end of the ranch entirely to themselves. We also take in a limited number of archery and black powder hunters.
Semi-guided means that we will drive you around the ranch to show you where fences, gates, stock tanks/creeks and boundary fences are. Plan to arrive at the Ponderosa Ranch early afternoon (during daylight) the day before your hunt starts. You will be provided with a topographic ranch map. The headquarter area is situated in the center of the ranch. You can either walk from the cabin to hunt, or use a 4x4 vehicle on the logging roads.
Archery Hunting
The Ponderosa Ranch offers semi-guided hunting on this scenic 3,300-acre ranch which is on top of the Pine Ridge area of Northwest Nebraska. Our package includes up to 6 nights, 6 meals, and 5 days of semi-guided hunting. Each extra day is $100 with a limit of 7 total days. Generally archery hunters have the ranch entirely to themselves.
Muzzle loading
Four-Day Hunting Package
Deer $1695 - A 50% deposit holds the reservation and full payment due 60 days prior to the opening of the season. Package includes: four day hunt, 5 nights lodging and 5 main meals.
Nebraska Sales & Lodging Tax will be added to the price.
2009 Season
December 1-31
Working ranch vacations
We offer guests the opportunity to be a cowboy or a cowgirl for a day or a week: to ride and fully experience ranch life on a scenic, timbered high-country Nebraska working cattle ranch. We offer a relaxed working ranch vacations: guests moving calves back into herd atmosphere, solitude for those who desire it, ranch broke quarter horses, comfortable, cozy, clean cabins, beautiful country and wide open spaces!
You decide what day of the week to arrive and to leave, and how long you want to stay. Rustic lodging, meals served family style, beautiful sunrises and sunsets, fresh air, star-gazing, a serene and peaceful retreat from the urban hustle and bustle...You will come as a guest and leave feeling like part of our family. We strive to provide rural down home hospitality for our vacation and adventure seeking guests! Come immerse yourself deeply in a vanishing lifestyle, and see why cattlemen and pioneers made Nebraska their destination long ago....
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