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Our family is excited to be a part of a brand new show on the Travel Channel called “Life’s a Trip”.  The show premiered Saturday, January 14th. Rankin Ranch is the first stop on a road trip across the nation for Patrick Warburton and his son, Talon.  Epic journeys are a family tradition for the

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Make plans for your 2017 ranch vacation.  Here’s a glimpse at our 2017 guest ranch season.  You can always check out our Calendar of Events for detailed information on all of the special times at the ranch, but sometimes it is nice to see all of these fun times on one page.  Below is a

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Tamale Pie has been a long time favorite of both the cowboys and the guests at Rankin Ranch.  We want to share our family recipe with you.  Helen Rankin enjoyed cooking and entertaining guests.  This gave her the vision for Rankin Guest Ranch which she opened in 1965.  Over 50 years later our family still

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Can you believe that summer is almost here?  Dust off your cowboy boots and put on your jeans!  It’s time to join us for our Summer Kickoff and enjoy 15% off our all inclusive rates from June 3rd to 8th.  That’s right, stay at the ranch for just one night or the whole week and

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Spring Break 2016 is almost here!  Make plans now to join us and kick off our 51st guest ranch season beginning on March 18th.  We have two weeks of Spring Break from Friday, March 18th to Friday, March 25th and Monday, March 28th to Sunday, April 3rd.  We are closed for Easter Weekend. You are welcome

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It is Rankin Family Tradition to have Prime Rib along with our Thanksgiving Turkey.  We hope that you too will enjoy a Rankin Ranch Prime Rib Roast this holiday season.  It doesn’t take much to make a tasty Prime Rib.  Here is our favorite recipe. Rankin Ranch Prime Rib Rankin Beef Prime Rib (size to

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Saddle Up for St. Jude this September! Mention “St. Jude” when you make your reservation and we will donate five percent of your stay to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital when you mention “St. Jude” upon booking. We are pleased to be partnering with other ranches to help raise money to support the lifesaving mission

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  We are looking forward to having our first ever “Star Party” on Friday, May 15th.  Local astronomers form the Kern River Valley will be bringing their telescopes to the ranch to give us a closer look at the night sky.  The stars are always beautiful at the ranch.  Stay over Friday night or the

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Spring Break 2015 is almost here!  We will kick off our 50th guest ranch season this Friday, March 27th and would love to have you join us.  We have two weeks of Spring Break from Friday, March 27th to Friday, April 3rd and Monday, April 6th to Sunday, April 12th.  We are closed for Easter Weekend.

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We had nearly 200 fantastic entries in our photo contest.  We loved seeing all of your memories from your time at the ranch.  As we expected, it would have been impossible to choose just one favorite photo from each category.  All of our entries were placed in a hat and the lucky winners were drawn

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