Wild Horse Adventures

Jarita Wild Horse Territory The Jarita Mesa Wild Horse Territory (WHT) is administered by the El Rito Ranger District, Carson National Forest. Location/Habitat The Jarita Mesa WHT is located in New Mexico approximately 20 miles northeast of El Rito. The herd use area consists of 55,000 acres of Nati...

Ellsworth Wild Horse Territory The Ellsworth Wild Horse Territory (WHT) is administered by the Austin/Tonopah Ranger District, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. Location/Habitat The Ellsworth WHT is located in Nevada approximately 50 miles southwest of Austin. The territory consists of 18,000 acres ...

Dobbin Summit Wild Horse Territory The Dobbin Summit Wild Horse Territory (WHT) is administered by the Austin/Tonopah Ranger District, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. Location/Habitat The Dobbin Summit WHT is located in Nevada approximately 50 miles southwest of Eureka. The territory consists of a...

Devil’s Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory The Devil’s Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory (WHT) is administered by the Modoc National Forest. Location/Habitat The Devil’s Garden Plateau WHT is located in California approximately 5 miles north of Alturas. The territory consists of 300,000 acres of ...

Cherry Spring Wild Horse Territory The Cherry Spring Wild Horse Territory (WHT) is administered by the Ruby Mountains Ranger District, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. Location/Habitat The Cherry Spring WHT is located in Nevada approximately 50 miles south of Elko. The territory consists of 23,794 ...

Caja del Rio Wild Horse Territory The Caja del Rio Wild Horse Territory (WHT) is administered by the Espanola Ranger District, Santa Fe National Forest. Location/Habitat The Caja WHT is located in New Mexico approximately 8 miles west of Santa Fe. The territory consists of 8728 acres of National For...

Butler Basin Wild Horse Territory The Butler Basin Wild Horse Territory (WHT) is administered by the Austin/Tonopah Ranger District, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. Location/Habitat The Butler Basin WHT is located in Nevada approximately 40 miles southwest of Eureka. The territory consists of 52,5...

Burro Wild Burro Territory The Burro Wild Burro Territory (WBT) is administered by the Austin/Tonopah Ranger District, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. Location/Habitat The Burro territory is located in Nevada approximately 20 miles east of Austin. The territory consists of 23,700 acres of National...

Brushy Mountain Wild Horse Territory The Brushy Mountain Wild Horse Territory (WHT) is administered by the Almanor Ranger District, Lassen National Forest. Location/Habitat The Brushy Mountain WHT is located in California approximately 40 miles southwest of Chester. The territory consists of 3,285 a...

Black Mountain Wild Horse Territory The Black Mountain Wild Horse Territory (WHT) is administered by the Santa Lucia Ranger District, Los Padres National Forest, California. Location/Habitat The Black Mountain WHT is located in California approximately 20 miles east of San Luis Obispo. The territory...

WHITE MOUNTAIN HMA A full range of colors is present - this herd has a lot of color in it, many of which are paints. Other colors are bay, sorrel, red roan, black, or gray. The Wyoming horses have a diverse background of many domestic horse breeds. They are most closely related to North American gai...

STEWART CREEK HMA The horses exhibit a full range of colors but most are solid in color. A noticeable number of appaloosas are within this HMA. The present population has been influenced by the routine escape of domestic saddle stock from the surrounding populated areas. Location: The Stewart Creek ...

SALT WELLS CREEK HMA A full range of colors is present in this herd and has a high number of palominos and sorrels with flaxen manes and tails. Other horse colors are bay, brown, black, paint, buckskin, or gray. The Wyoming horses have a diverse background of many domestic horse breeds. They most cl...

NORTH LANDER HMA COMPLEX (Includes Muskrat Basin, Conant Creek, Rock Creek and Dishpan Butte HMAs) A full range of colors are present. Most horses are solid in color yet you may find a few pintos and blue roans scattered through the HMA. Location: These four herd management areas (HMA) are located i...

MCCULLOUGH PEAKS HMA The animals tend to be moderate to large-sized and habitat conditions are such that the horses are in very good condition. The combination of size, conformation, coat colors and patterns, and excellent physical condition has become a draw for potential adopters and a matter of r...

LOST CREEK HMA The present population has a full range of colors and has been influenced by the routine escape of domestic saddle stock from the surrounding populated areas. The genetic analysis of the Lost Creek HMA by Dr. Gus Cothran of Texas A&M University, October 14, 2010, states, “Genetic vari...

LITTLE COLORADO HMA Most horses in this area are dark—bay, sorrel, brown, black or gray. The Wyoming horses have a diverse background of many domestic horse breeds. They are most closely related to North American gaited breeds such as Rocky Mountain Horse, American Saddlebred, Standardbred, and Morg...

GREEN MOUNTAIN HMA Wild horses in the Green Mountain HMA. Most horses are solid in color, but a noticeable number of pintos are present. Location: Green Mountain Herd Management Area (HMA) encompasses nearly 117,000 acres, SSE of Sweetwater Station, of which nearly 75,000 acres are BLM-administered ...

FIFTEENMILE HMA Bays and sorrels, along with some grays, roans and pintos, roam the herd management area (HMA). Location: The Fifteenmile HMA is located in the upper Fifteenmile Creek watershed approximately 30 miles northwest of Worland, in a very remote part of the Bighorn Basin. It encompasses ov...

DIVIDE BASIN HMA Most horses are bay, line-back, dunn, sorrel, black, brown, pinto, buckskin, or gray, but many colors and combinations are present. Location: The Divide Basin Herd Management Area (HMA) encompasses nearly 779,000 acres, of which 562,702 acres are BLM-administered public lands. The m...

CROOKS MOUNTAIN HMA The horses in this herd management area (HMA) are predominantly bay and brown. Location: The Crooks Mountain HMA is located directly east central of Sweetwater Station, Wyo. and encompasses over 58,000 acres. Size: More than 58,000 acres. Topography/Vegetation: The lower elevatio...

ANTELOPE HILLS HMA The horses in this HMA are predominantly bay and brown. This HMA has genetic markers that would reflect a similarity to the New World Spanish horse breeds. Sweeping views of the southern Wind River Mountain Range can be seen to the west of this HMA. This HMA is truly in the “middl...

ADOBE TOWN HMA The horses exhibit a full range of colors, with greys and roans predominating. The present population has been influenced by the routine escape of domestic saddle stock from the surrounding populated areas. The horses range from 14 to 15 hands and 900-1100 pounds mature weight. One of...

CARRACAS MESA HERD AREA HMA The history of the Jicarilla wild horses is vague, but appears to be based on cavalry stock and ranch horses from the area, along with an influx of horses from the adjacent Jicarilla Apache Reservation. Genetic testing has indicated a mixed breeding background. Colors var...