We went last year. The parking is chaotic to say the least, just where ever you can find a spot. Regulars get there early and stay all week. No electric or water hook-ups. The showers were bad enough that I didn't even go in them. Out houses for toilets that were in one spot about 20 of them.  

The people that invited us have gone for years and just love it. We probably won't go back. The wagon races are exciting to say the least. There were several wagons that had horses that ran away and through the camps until they could get them stopped.  Lots of partying and we had a guy come by and ask us about if we had seen a horse that someone had stolen. He said he had it tied up and knew it couldn't get lose but was gone when he got back. It is fun for many people and if you  like lots of excitement that's the place for you. I personally like a more quiet horse experience.

Yes, it is probaby like Sturgis replacing motorcycle with horse/mule/wagon. I think everyone should at least go one time it is unbeliveable.

Yes,I had it emailed to me in a joke about political correctness,and I thought it was halarious.

Me,I'm from the flatlands,where the duck hunting can't be beat,so,you can call us flatlanders any time.I did move to the "ridge" but am not officially a "hill billy" because it's unique,just a ridge,so,they call us "ridgerunners."
Imagine my delight when we bought a palomino colt last Sept.at Ava,MO and his name: Sadie's Ridgerunner.

At the close of the chuckwagon races,hope you can say,"A good time was had by ALL!"

YOU BET!  We are going..... I incidentally, am not that super excited about the actual races, don't party hearty or anything, but love camping out and seeing all the horses and mules riders and wagon, zedonks (zebra + jack cross) every kind of camping arrangement you could possibly begin to imagine.  We camp with hookups (electric and water) at Southfork...have a LQ trailer now (marvelous) and are parked right across from an old house where they serve breakfast. and a cook fella that does cowboy food cooking for lunch and supper... hey, I cook, but it is my vacation too! 

There is a cattle drive and horse roundup today, there are shoeing clinics, mule clinics, cowboy mounted shooting, trailer dealers, Tucker saddlery booth, all kinds of cowboy furniture and decor items for sale, an auction of cowboy collectibles (not like Garcia stuff, just regular stuff) bit and spur makers, food vendors up top with all this.  Also, if you have an LQ, there is a rig that drives around to "collect" your holding tanks for a small fee, so that is not a problem.  It is a cowboy rendezvous of the first order.  They have a snowy river race...up and down hills ending in a small river..all visible from the bluff overlooking the big acreage in the bottom.    We ride around, it is huge and you can spend days just riding around on the ranch.  The horse has the right of way, no ATVs and it just keeps getting more horses and folks.  It is such an amazing sight!  There are people here off all ages, some get married here, some die here, and some get created here!  We take a hot wire pen and put it up, ride mules.   Also, there is a tack repair guy there.  In Clinton there is a feed store that has an amazing collection of cowboy furnishings and accessories, as well as feed, halters and tack etc, fence posts and furnishings!

Up top, if you don't have animals, there are rv hookups, reserve early.  Down bottom park any place that you can, the regulars have reserved spots.  Parking is free in the bottom, not sure what the fee is for up top with hookups.  Southfork is a ranch that joins the OF ranch where the activities are, and we pay for the week long hookups.  We like that area as we don't have to pull our LQ through the river to park (no bridge, nothing) altho lots and lots and lots of people pull through the river to get to their parking spots throughout.  I have visions of damaging something, so I just can't make myself put 22,000 lbs of rig through a rocky river bottom, complete with water swirling through the generator in the rear tack!

Oh, yes, you can use generators for your rigs anywhere you park to help ya out.  There are places you can also pull beside of and refill your water tanks if you don't have hookups...

 It is amazing, with something for everyone.  There is a party element, but no one bothers you if you are not a participant.  Dan also is very much on top of things.  My first year a fella "took" our ice chest, another cowboy saw him and accosted him about it, long story short is he was kicked out never to return over an ice chest with water in it....happened right then too, not the next morning.  You really really don't want to be stealing anything, folks watch out for each other and are really hospitable.....can be hot and dusty, and if it really really rains it can get really muddy, altho I have not been there when it did.  There are a lot of activities, and you can do just what you want or just ride and enjoy the scenery, it can be as lively or not as you choose......come enjoy, and be truly amazed.... It may be the last real cowboy rendezvous type of deal this side of Pendleton and Cheyenne!