Sylvan Dale has 3200 acres to roam, plus miles of trails through adjacent Roosevelt National Forest. Our hiking trails range from easy, level paths through the pastures to rugged trails over rimrock and into the surrounding ponderosa pine-covered mountains.

The Ranch valley is located in a major geologic transition zone, between the red sandstone hogbacks on the east - the remains of an ancient desert - and the uplifted granite formations of the Rocky Mountains to the west. On our trails you can find Fountain, Ingleside, Satanka and Lyons formations.  Over 1.5 billion years of Earth's history is on display at the Ranch: from Precambrian granites and schists, through the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras, to reminders of the Ice Age just 15,000 years ago.

Check with the office for a hiking trails map, and several naturalist pamphlets.