Author Archives: Stevie

Parade Magazine votes Rocking Horse Ranch the country’s Top Family Ranch! With July 28th being the 8th annual National Day of the Cowboy, it’s only natural to want a first-hand Ranch experience! Parade Magazine encourages all to “giddyup” as they … Continue reading.

Give the kids what they want out of a vacation, and they won’t be the only ones smiling. The Rocking Horse Ranch in Highland, N.Y., has miles of riding trails that allow kids to get in touch with their inner Wyatt Earp (or Calamity Jane) and catch up on the fresh air and exercise they’ve missed while hunched over their computers “doing homework.” Continue reading.

Before the insanity of the school, soccer, dancing and CCD schedule resumed this fall, my family and I shoehorned in a quick trip to Rocking Horse Ranch, in Highland, New York, a tiny hamlet located halfway between New York City and Albany, NY along the Hudson River. It’s about a one-hour drive north of New York City. Continue reading.

ESPN’s NFL Countown shot footage at Rocking Horse Ranch Resort for the October 16, 2011 show. The episode was about Dallas Cowboy “gunslinging” quarterback Tony Romo. All the scenes, props and horses are set on our facilities. The “actor” is our very own assistant barn foreman TJ Arata. Continue reading.

Bigger, faster and more extreme has been the focus at SplashDown Beach Water Park since coming under the ownership of Steve and Shelley Turk in November of 2004. SplashDown Beach in Fishkill, New York, is found in the heart of the scenic Hudson River Valley, just 60 minutes north of the major metropolitan market of New York City and 90 minutes south of the state capital of Albany. Continue reading.

Attendance at Fishkill’s Splashdown Beach this summer stood at 115,000 visitors as Aug. 5 dawned hot and steamy, promising another packed house. The five-year record of 150,000 could fall this year. Across the river, the same owner, Steve Turk, hopes to attract another 120,000 to his Rocking Horse Ranch Resort, a full-amenity, year-round destination. The business plan of good, clean fun could have been dreamed up by Walt Disney and Turk is not shy about sharing credit: “Disney sets the standard and we emulate Disney.” Continue reading.

Turk Hospitality Group Inc., dba SplashDown Beach Waterpark and HIT Entertainment, one of the world’s leading providers of high quality children’s entertainment, have entered into an agreement to develop the first permanent Bob the Builder™ amusement attraction in North America. Splash Works™, Bob’s new attraction at SplashDown Beach in Fishkill, NY, will be open for the 2011 Season with a grand opening on May 28 during Memorial Day weekend. Continue reading.

How sanitary are water park features anyway? AOL goes undercover to sample the water at some of the nation’s top water parks. When temperatures soar, tens of thousands of Americans push through the turnstiles at water parks across the country, seeking to cool off at a corkscrewing waterslide or a thundering wave pool. But just how safe is that water they’re splashing in? Continue reading.