{"id":32624,"date":"2026-02-24T09:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/?p=32624"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:45:22","slug":"a-different-dude-ranch-souvenir-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/tourism\/a-different-dude-ranch-souvenir-confidence","title":{"rendered":"A Different Dude Ranch Souvenir: Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Inspired by life lessons learned while his father-in-law battled Stage 4 pancreatic cancer, bridle-free ranch horseman Luke Reinbold says the goal of working successfully with horses and their people, \u201cIs to keep the main things a priority \u2013 God, family, life together, training horses, raising cattle, and helping people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since losing his wife\u2019s father and a cherished mentor in 2009, those have been the priorities that have kept Luke, Tiffany, and the four Reinbold children \u2013 Chase, Cody, Annaliese, and Hailey \u2013 riding forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur first son was born while I was working full-time with the Steuben County Sheriff\u2019s Office and building the ranch with Tiffany\u2019s father,\u201d Luke said. \u201cHe would have wanted us to keep pushing forward. So after resetting, we continued. There were horses to train and dreams to fulfill.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094117\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Kay-El-Bar-Guest-Ranch-1.jpeg\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  width=\"1024\"  height=\"576\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"\"  class=\"wp-image-32626 pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-ls-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094117\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Kay-El-Bar-Guest-Ranch-1-1024x576.jpeg\"  data-pk-srcset=\"https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094117\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Kay-El-Bar-Guest-Ranch-1-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094117\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Kay-El-Bar-Guest-Ranch-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094117\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Kay-El-Bar-Guest-Ranch-1-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094117\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Kay-El-Bar-Guest-Ranch-1-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094117\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Kay-El-Bar-Guest-Ranch-1-2048x1152.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094117\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Kay-El-Bar-Guest-Ranch-1-380x214.jpeg 380w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094117\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Kay-El-Bar-Guest-Ranch-1-800x450.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094117\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Kay-El-Bar-Guest-Ranch-1-1160x653.jpeg 1160w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094117\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Kay-El-Bar-Guest-Ranch-1-80x46.jpeg 80w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094117\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Kay-El-Bar-Guest-Ranch-1.jpeg 2560w\" ><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Images courtesy of Active Riding Trips\/Kay El Bar Guest Ranch, Active Riding Trips\/Luke Reinbold Horsemanship<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Luke Reinbold Horsemanship&#8217;s social media numbers have made him a serious influencer in the industry, while simultaneously breaking ground in tourism, giving more people chances to ride in his confidence-building clinics and ranch camps by working in conjunction with a horseback-specific travel agency, <a href=\"https:\/\/activeridingtrips.com\/rides\/\">Active Riding Trips<\/a>, to coordinate Confidence Through Horsemanship clinics at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kayelbar.com\/\">Kay El Bar Guest Ranch<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"a-history-of-the-kay-el-bar\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>A History of the Kay El Bar<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Homesteaded in 1909 by 18-year-old Romaine Lowdermilk, at $1.25 for each of its original 160 acres, he named the ranch KL Bar in honor of his mother, Katherine. Its cattle brand was registered in 1909 and the ranch eventually grew to 640 acres. In 1914, the first adobe building (currently the Homestead House guest casita) became the ranch headquarters and bunkhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Romaine also became a writer and Western entertainer, publishing a weekly \u201cwit and wisdom\u201d column for a Prescott newspaper that led to the ranch\u2019s first paying guests in 1918, after his editor visited and began spreading the word about their great stay at the Kay El Bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094128\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Kay-El-Bar-Guest-Ranch-2.jpg\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  width=\"1024\"  height=\"683\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"\"  class=\"wp-image-32627 pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-ls-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094128\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Kay-El-Bar-Guest-Ranch-2-1024x683.jpg\"  data-pk-srcset=\"https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094128\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Kay-El-Bar-Guest-Ranch-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094128\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Kay-El-Bar-Guest-Ranch-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094128\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Kay-El-Bar-Guest-Ranch-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094128\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Kay-El-Bar-Guest-Ranch-2-380x253.jpg 380w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094128\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Kay-El-Bar-Guest-Ranch-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094128\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Kay-El-Bar-Guest-Ranch-2-1160x773.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094128\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Kay-El-Bar-Guest-Ranch-2-80x53.jpg 80w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094128\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Kay-El-Bar-Guest-Ranch-2.jpg 1200w\" ><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By 1925, Romaine was joined by business partner, Henry Warbasse, and, after construction of a new adobe lodge, the Kay El Bar Guest Ranch opened in 1926. The next season, Romaine sold out his share and Henry went on to be elected first president of the Arizona Dude and Guest Ranch Association in 1929.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kay El Bar was briefly home to actor Val Kilmer and has been listed on the Arizona and National Historic Registers since the 1970s. After a brief series of owners, it resumed operations in all its original guest ranch glory in 2018, on its 100<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary, as part of the award-winning True Ranch Collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094138\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Luke-Reinbold-Horsemanship-3.jpeg\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  width=\"683\"  height=\"1024\"  data-id=\"32628\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"\"  class=\"wp-image-32628 pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-ls-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\"  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https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094137\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Luke-Reinbold-Horsemanship-800x1022.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094137\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Luke-Reinbold-Horsemanship-80x102.jpeg 80w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094137\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Luke-Reinbold-Horsemanship-63x80.jpeg 63w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094137\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Luke-Reinbold-Horsemanship.jpeg 1147w\" ><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"confidence-through-horsemanship\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Confidence Through Horsemanship<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For the kind of souvenir \u2013 better understanding of how you and your horse respond to anxiety \u2013 that lasts longer than a kitchen magnet, try a Confidence Through Horsemanship clinic or Ranch Camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Confidence Through Horsemanship experience opens with a meet-and-greet with Luke and the other guests, then explains groundwork before working on body control under saddle, riding with softness, and rating speed. This is where you will not only learn tactics and principles, but the reasoning behind them. Perfect for those seeking to address anxiety and understand how tension transfers to their horse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094141\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Luke-Reinbold-Horsemanship-2.jpg\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  width=\"1024\"  height=\"683\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"\"  class=\"wp-image-32630 pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-ls-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094141\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Luke-Reinbold-Horsemanship-2-1024x683.jpg\"  data-pk-srcset=\"https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094141\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Luke-Reinbold-Horsemanship-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094141\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Luke-Reinbold-Horsemanship-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094141\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Luke-Reinbold-Horsemanship-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094141\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Luke-Reinbold-Horsemanship-2-380x253.jpg 380w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094141\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Luke-Reinbold-Horsemanship-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094141\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Luke-Reinbold-Horsemanship-2-1160x773.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094141\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Luke-Reinbold-Horsemanship-2-80x53.jpg 80w, https:\/\/media.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/resorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/24094141\/Photo-Credit-Active-Riding-Trips_Luke-Reinbold-Horsemanship-2.jpg 1500w\" ><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Or try a Ranch Camp to gain techniques that will give you the added confidence to try new things on steadfast ranch horses, and learn how to become more effective when communicating with your own horse.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou will be hard-pressed to have more fun anywhere else,\u201d said Active Riding Trips president Stacey Adams, who worked and rode with the upstate New York rancher to bring him to Arizona. \u201cFeel how ranch life gets a horse quiet, composed, and ready to work. Plus, there\u2019s great trail riding.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A trip that makes good horse sense.\u00a0 Learn more about Luke Reinbold clinics and camps at the Kay El Bar Guest Ranch at <a href=\"https:\/\/activeridingtrips.com\/rides\/\">activeridingtrips.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Active Riding Trips regales readers with lessons from horseman Luke Reinbold and the historic Arizona Kay El Bar Guest 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