Crowds gathered to literally feel the majesty of stampeding horses in western Colorado over the weekend for the 2017 Great American Horse Drive. The unbelievable event is put on each year by Sombrero Ranches where cowboys and cowgirls work for a week rounding up all the horses from the ranch’s vast winter range and holding them in pens in preparation for the drive. The drive transports around 500 horses from Browns Park over 60 miles to Sombrero Ranch located west of Craig. While the purpose is a practical one, to get the horses from winter to summer pasture, the event has turned into an annual public celebration where people come from miles around to watch the stampede pass through towns. The horses were guided and managed by about 50 riders that traveled 30 miles on Saturday and the final 30 miles on Sunday.
