Crowds gather every year to literally feel the majesty of stampeding horses in western Colorado as part of the Great American Horse Drive taking place this weekend. 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 hundreds of horses from Browns Park over 60 miles to Sombrero Ranch located west of Craig. While the purpose is 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 are guided and managed by about 50 riders that travel about 30 miles on Saturday and the final 30 miles on Sunday through the streets of Maybell. The horses travel through Maybell on Sunday starting in the morning around 8am and the last of the horses pass through usually in the early afternoon. Those that attend also enjoy festivities put on each year.
