Wonderful community and miles and miles of trails. Bruce and Patty the owners are kind and helpful. The boarders all work together to make this place great. What it lacks in shine it excels in kindness. read more

This place is an absolute dump and should be considered the white trash of horse boarding with extremely poor management, broken fences and water pipes, and couches sitting next to the arena. There is a reason why it is one of the cheaper boarding places in Phoenix, but it really should be cheaper since the place is more like self care and the horses receive the absolute minimum of what is claimed to be offered by management. I never felt comfortable leaving my horses here without seeing them for longer than a day. I had horses get injured and sick here with management never even acknowledging it or informing me of the issues. There have also been horses here that look like they are starving and extremely sick and management never moves them away from the other horses or does anything about it. My horses repeatedly over the summer had the water shut off and got left without water in over 100 degree weather in a boarding facility that has barely any shade and no fans or misters. The management caters to a few boarders who are extremely rude and lazy and contributes highly to the place looking like a dump by constantly leaving trashy obstacle courses and horse toys scattered through the arena. The agreement claims you have an hour to be in the arena but this is including other boarders who claim to be trainers just turning there horses loose in the arena while you ride or leaving them in the round pen for hours without water, while they leave. Even the boarders that claim they get along are constantly talking behind the other's backs. The place is full of drama. I have had stuff go missing off my trailer and harassing messages left on my trailer and when management was informed they simply went and took the tape off and said problem fixed. The manager is an outright evil woman who is only in it for the money. She does not care about putting any money back into maintaining this place and she is never seen taking care of any of the horses or the property. I boarder there for months and only saw her once. And the time I saw her she was threatening me for having my service dog with me on a trail ride off her property. She continued to threaten me even after being informed that the dog was an active service dog and shown his card. And don't believe what they say about scenic trail ride areas, your sent into a rock pile of a mountain that has many hobos inhabiting the area. This place should be reported and shut down. read more

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I can say that the stable community has grown to be great. Everyone is friendly and gets along and helps each other out . We all look out for one another's horse and horses. Folks ride together out on surrounding trails as well as put arena to use . Periodically, we will even gather around and have a bbq or two. This is a spot I can say that I havent known anyones belongings to disappear if it was left out over night. Someone would always leave it where it was found or most of the time would be put inside the tack room and locked for safety. If you have a key to the tack room you'd have access to retrieve it when you returned. A few minor things I would have addressed or could be better attended too by owner like the water ( owner has been out to fix most of the issues already) . And the stalls could be cleaned like their website states and the arena I think should be managed by the owner more so than the boarders and I think that they should feed more hay during the two times a day that they do provide . but other than that is a wonderful place with low drama and nice view and environment to be . read more

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This is one of the worst boarding facility I think I've ever been to. The owners are SO worried about making money then don't put any money or time. The charge you full board, clean your stall 1 time a day, and they will only pick up piles not poop that has been spread around. Half the time the auto waters don't work, so they are supposed to make sure your hOrses have water, and they don't check. They let horses stand in knee deep mud, they only let your horse be out of their stall for 1 HOUR 1 HOUR a day. That's it. There are fees everywhere. It is not worth UPDATED REVIEW! Since patty (the owner/operator of Stony mountain ranch) is threatening me! {Freedom of speech is protected both online and offline. As a result, online reviewers are well within their rights to express their opinions (ranging from "I love the ambiance" to "The cashier was rude to me") and relate their true experiences ("I ordered the shrimp scampi" and "The doctor wouldn't accept my insurance").} I often don't speak negatively about a place unless it is true. The other border and I were NOT spreading false information about any other boarder, we were raising our concerns to the owners of stony mountain for the health of horse. And the owners of the facility took it the wrong way. Because we cared about another horses health. I have been to many states and many horse boarding facility's. I've talked to the other owner Bruce of stony mountain. I've ridden in their arena, that won't be dragged unless you do it yourself because the owners won't, Ive used the tack room where my bottom door wouldn't even open all the way, I have seen the stalls, I've seen the facility, I've heard many bad things about the facility, but for many weeks I was standing up for stony mountain giving them the Benefit of the doubt, but after my horse left ( I was doing self board, so yes my stall was cleaned and my horse was fed, as I liked) realized it wasn't alll sunshine and rainbows. So I urge anyone to threaten me. As, I have many contacts who use to board at this facility and left because of the owners and how they treat people. If you run a business you need to know how to handle negative reviews instead of calling them fake. I have moved out of the state of Arizona recently but, to express my opinion on this facility I would never return. There are many other options in, and around north phx where your horse will be much happier. Update- Mac D is a fake made up account from the owners of stony mountain ranch. Patty and Bruce will bully people until they delete their reviews. Funny how I'm targeted when I'm not the only one who has had issues with this facility. I think the owners need to grow up, and learn how to take criticism. read more

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Awful place. The stalls are falling apart. They have security issues & all horses have locks on their stalls and locks on the breezeways to the stalls. So what happens if there is a fire? Do you wait for someone to take the time to cut locks to release horses? Most water area for horses don't work and very little hay available in storage area. Not impressed at all. For the price... look for other facilities. read more

I'd like to write a fair review of this facility. I am not interested in hurting anyone's small business wrongfully so I will list my honest PROs and CONs from my time boarding there. I moved my horse to AZ from CA in July and did not remain but a few months at Stony Mountain Ranch. That was long enough for me to decide it wasn't a place I felt comfortable boarding. PROs: -There is trail riding though its pretty rocky. It is conveniently located near the Phoenix Mountain Preserve where you may ride right out from the ranch and trail ride into the preserve. I enjoyed many rides here but mind the cyclists and its too rocky to run. -I found the other boarders to be friendly and enjoyed getting to know and ride with them. -My horse urinates a lot. Before I moved in I discussed with the owner, my rotating him in two stalls so that it would dry out and my horse wouldn't have to stand in muck. They agreed to allow me to do this and for that I am appreciative. CONs: -Overall, this facility isn't well maintained and the horse's care should have been better. I will list some examples: -Arena is not well maintained or dragged so it is very hard and rocky and the sprinklers to water it were often broken and unusable. -During the summer, the automatic waterers in many of the horse's stalls are swarmed by bees and it becomes necessary to give them an alternative water source because many become aversive to the automatic waterers because of the bees. I had to go buy water tubs to put in my horse's stall and I also had to be the one to fill them. This meant that if I or another nice boarder wasn't there to fill my water barrels, my horse might only have piping hot, bee-swarmed water to choose from. I did not expect that I would feel the need to go out to my horse daily because I was worried he wouldn't have water if I didn't. I am working and have a small child and I expected to be able to trust a boarding facility to provide fresh water for my horse. When I was there, I also began feeling like I should fill the other horses' empty water buckets so they would have sufficient drinking water or they might not have any. I know I wasn't the only boarder who felt this way. -One incident that actually made me angry was when I got out to my horse on the afternoon of a day in the summer when it was 112 degrees and found him with no water. The automatic waterer had a malfunction and was dry. What makes me angry about this was that the horses had just been fed which means a caretaker had just walked by the stall and paid no mind to make sure the horse had water! If I had not gone out and found it, he would have been without water for who knows how long. During my time there, out of 7 horses, at least 3 colicked--2 died. It seems more precautions with keeping horses watered should have been taken especially in light of this. I contacted the owners about this incident and I was disappointed that they only provided excuses. After this, I realized I was not boarding at a facility where I could leave my horse for more than a day without checking on him myself. That's not what I signed onto as a boarder and I don't think the price of board should be $345 when you as a boarder feel you have to be there everyday to make sure your horse has water in the summer. That is what I was paying them to do. -Manure wasn't cleaned out of stalls proficiently. Pieces would be left. I noticed my horse and others were eating dung which mine has never done before. -There was a horse there that was standing, daily in muck and was padlocked in its stall. It is disappointing that these conditions were ok with the ranch owners. And a padlock seems like a death trap for that horse in the event of a fire. -The tack spaces are bad. I can just leave it at that. -Finally, my horse who is the easiest keeper began to look skinny. This was with minimal riding and he had been certified healthy by a vet just a couple months earlier--including his teeth. I believe his weight loss was because he was not being fed enough. There were also a couple of other horses that looked like they were dropping weight. I did call and address this concern with the owner and was told I could pay extra weekly to feed him more. He only requires 2 flakes twice daily to maintain healthy weight. I feel I was already paying too much for too little so this was the last straw for me. I don't think if I had been there monitoring him daily, that the owners would have noticed and done anything about his weight loss.***This lack of care or responsibility combined with the poorly maintained facility made me decide to take my horse elsewhere. I am writing this review so that someone like myself, who is looking for a boarding facility while not knowing the area might make a more well informed decision than I did. Instead of responding defensively to bad reviews, it might be time to take a good look at how this facility is being run and listen. read more

Do Not Board Here. Rudest woman ever. She raised my rates immediately after having my horses delivered. She completely lied to me and my daughter. So nasty I started looking for a new place the same day. She doesn't know anything about horses or being a decent human being. Save yourself from this pit. read more