ELBERT — The Pikes Peak Range Riders Foundation hosted a 'Day on the Range' youth event from the Boys and Girls Club of the Pikes Peak Region.
Communities helping communities is what the partnership with the Boys and Girls Club of Pikes Peak and the Pikes Peak Range Riders Foundation is all about.
For six years, the two have come together to bring Western culture to children who may have never even seen a horse or cow.
The purpose of the event was to give kids a taste of what Western life is like, by allowing the children to have a chance to dress up as cowboys and cowgirls.
"What we do is bring some great kids from the Boys and Girls Club up here... and they've never really had the Western experience before," said Ted Severn, President of the Pikes Peak Range Riders Foundation. "So the idea is we bring them here and kind of give them a Western experience for the day."
News5 Photojournalist Shawn Shanle joined them at the Latigo Trails Equestrian Center in Elbert to rope in the fun.
"We have a total of 11 stations, and it ranges anywhere from longhorn steer, to the petting zoo, to the history of the cowboy, to the mounted detachment from the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, to horseback riding, to a wagon ride, to sheep herding, just a little bit of flavor of everything," said Severn. "By the time they leave here, they've had a great experience and they're smiling."
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