and beverages are provided as well as canoeing, fishing, hiking, exploring, demonstrations of various ranching skills, and tours of the farming and ranching facilities, the beaver ponds, a Joshua tree forest, the spring and the three perennial streams that converge at the main ranch headquarters.  Programs are also presented covering the history of the ranch, how beginning in 1863 almost all of the early settlers of the

Come Visit!  O X customers are welcome to visit the ranch on Ranch Day!  Experience how the ranch is managed and cattle are treated.  Once a year, the O X Ranch holds a Ranch Day event at which its customers, and the relatives and friends of customers, are welcomed for the day. Food

state passed through the ranch headquarters on their way to the gold fields in the Bradshaw Mountains, how the ranch provided feed for the army stationed at the military fort located near the ranch headquarters to protect the settlers, how General Crook narrowly escaped an attempted assassination at a

meeting with the Indians from the area, and eventually became a partial owner of the ranch, how the great uncle of Barry Goldwater received three bullets in his back from an Indian attack north of the ranch and had them removed at the military hospital located at the ranch headquarters.  Discover why the current

owners of the ranch have received, on two occasions, the “Top Wrangler Award” presented by the Arizona Cattle Growers Association, why the Arizona Game & Fish Department has honored the O X Ranch with its Habitat Stewardship award, why the O X Ranch received a letter from a Midwest

feed yard congratulating it for receiving the highest price ever paid for fattened cattle.  Learn about the various environmental projects the O X Ranch has entered into with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife, the Arizona Game and Fish Department, the U.S. National Resources Conservation Service, the

State Land Department, the Farm Service Agency and the U.S. Forest Service.  Learn how O X Ranch cattle are being used as a tool to improve the health and biodiversity of land and streams.  Visit our orchards, which are filled with a variety of trees

including apple, crab apple, peach, pear, cherry, walnut, pecan, almond, plum, apricot, plum, nectarine, Asian pear, grapefruit, orange, lemon and pistachio.  Discover some of the more than 200 species of birds and waterfowl that choose the O X Ranch as their home and are

monitored by members of the Audubon Society. These birds and waterfowl include bald and golden eagles, white snow geese, Canada geese, osprey, blue heron, sand hill crane, red tail hawk, and the largest concentration of zone tail hawk in the State of Arizona.   Observe the deer, elk, bear, lion, coyotes, javelina, rabbits and beaver that reside at the ranch.  Enjoy catch and release fishing for some of the largest bass and catfish in the state.  Observe the mystery fish that are more than five feet long and leave a wake as they travel through the water.  And be sure to leave enough time to just sit back and enjoy the peace, tranquility and natural beauty of a very special place.

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