Indoors · Grantsville

Miner Hickory Farm

Riding stable · Miner Hickory Farm

A 300-acre farm with a heated indoor arena, which makes it the one place around here a small child can sit on a horse in February. Pony rides are $25 and run inside; trail riding, farm tours by off-road buggy, cabins and a pavilion are the rest of it.

A large indoor riding arena with a sand floor, steel walls, clerestory windows and ceiling fans, with a child in a helmet sitting on a black horse beside a mounting block. — The indoor arena. Sand floor, fans, daylight down both long walls — this is where the pony rides happen, which is why the weather doesn't decide the day.
6 Aug 2026

Everything is booked ahead. There are no drop-in hours published and no opening times at all.
Trail riding is April to November only. In winter the indoor programmes are what's left.
Group lessons are ages 8 and up. Only private lessons and pony rides go down to age 3.

What's inside

A temperature-controlled indoor arena — the reason this is here rather than under parks.
Pony rides, indoors, $25 a guest and 30 minutes in winter.
Riding lessons year-round, English and Western, from age 3.
Barn tours, from $20.
Stables you walk through to get to the arena.

The details

Admission: Nothing to pay to arrive; you pay per activity, and the farm publishes every price. Pony ride $25 a guest, indoors. Barn tour alone $20. Barn tour with a 30-minute lesson or pony ride $45 a person. Trail ride $50 a guest. Off-road farm tour $50 a guest, ages 4 up. Lessons in the indoor arena, ages 3 to adult: $50 an hour, $40 for 45 minutes, $30 for 30. Group lessons 90 minutes $65 or 60 minutes $50, ages 8 up, four to a group. Private lessons 90 minutes $75, 60 minutes $65.
Restrooms: Not confirmed
Gift shop: Not confirmed
Getting around: Not confirmed
Parking: Not confirmed
Getting there: Open in Google Maps to Miner Hickory Farm (opens Google Maps)
Website: Miner Hickory Farm

Where it is

Miner Hickory Farm, 160 Miner Hickory Rd, Grantsville, MD 21536, MDDirections →

More photographs

A black horse in a red halter standing on rubber matting in a pine-lined barn aisle, being brushed, with stalls receding behind. — The barn aisle. Grooming and tacking up are part of the longer lessons, and they happen in here rather than out in the weather.
6 Aug 2026

The outside of a long stable block with a brown metal roof, timber dutch doors, a gravel yard and white paddock fencing running up a green hillside. — Outside. Gravel yard, level from the parking area to the barn.
6 Aug 2026

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