AGRITOURISM Rowse’s 1+1 Ranch, Burwell ROWSE’S 1+1 RANCH, BURWELL 7,000 Sandhills acres // Shadow a cowboy // Ride horses Connect with your inner cowboy at Rowse’s 1+1 seven-generation working ranch. Spend several days or a week and experience ranching life as you work alongside lifelong cowboys. Located on more than 7,000 acres in the heart of the Sandhills, the ranch raises 800 cow-calf pairs and has an award-winning quarter horse breeding program. You’ll be teamed up with a gentle, trained quarter horse that will be your four-legged companion during your stay, with the opportunity to ride approximately six hours every day. Guests accompany the Rowse family and staff as they work the ranch—helping the cowboys with their jobs by checking pastures, working and driving cattle and sorting bulls. After morning chores are finished, head to the arena for afternoon roping lessons and additional horsemanship instruction. Log bunkhouse rooms feature décor with cowboy flair and each has its unique personality filled with antiques, hand-carved headboards and rocking chairs on individual front porches. Each room boasts a private bath, stocked coffee bar and mini fridge. At the main ranch lodge, you’ll share Tammy’s buffet-style, home-cooked meals with the family. Specialties include chicken-fried steak, wood-grilled ribeyes on Friday nights and often-requested cherry cheesecake and red velvet cake. Note t hat ranch guests must be 18 years or older. & RANCH RELAX Rowse’s 1+1 Ranch, Burwell Pro Tip: Exploring a guest ranch? Always leave a gate the way you found it—open or closed. Either way, the rancher has a reason. Sandhills Guest Ranch, Brewster 16 VisitNebraska.com