Echo Lake Stable

THE BEST PLACE TO RIDE HORSES IN ALL OF NEW JERSEY! We love Echo Lake Stables: beautiful trails, skilled friendly trail guides, awesome horses, spotless facilities, night rides in season and they throw great birthday parties too. The owners treat you like family! Western riding right here in Passaic County! LOVE THIS PLACE! CAN'T WAIT TO GO BACK!

I've been riding horses all my life and have never been to a cleaner, better maintained ranch. This is a fun place. I rode there and loved it! The people who run this place really know how to take care of you and the horses were wonderful. We even got to see a bear and ...wild turkeys. I got 'once in a lifetime' photos. I'll be coming back on a regular basis and would highly recommend it to anyone with an adventerous spirit. Read More

life. They totally ignored her and did not want to help her, so I don't know if it is because she is latin, ( I am white, Native american) and she is very smart. I am just amazed at how these people can have no regard for human life. WOW. Well, there are signs that say "ride at your own risk".. etc, they are not kidding.

d jumping aroud. We then had to turn around and HOPE this thing wasn't going to seriously injure or KILL her. The guide should have walked his and her horse. I even offered to switch with her because I am stronger than she. But he was not about to get off his horse to h...elp. He also told us that the "indian trails" and related topics on the website are all LIES. He said there was a wall they don't know where it came from but that was it. There was no river that he claimed was there, it a a VEERy samll stream. So on the way back her and her horse now in the middle, the horse was still VERY unruly, and it just kept getting worse. All the guy did was repeat, "pull this way" and the beautiful ride I pictured together just got worse. What do we see now? A BEAR. not 20 ft away from us. the guide stopped and looked terrified as did we. I told him at that point I was TERRIFIED. I almost started crying, but our lives were in danger and he told us to be quiet. The horses began getting antsy Read More

g with the guide in front, me in the middle, her in back, waiting the whole time for her horse to catch up. I will try to sum this up because it was so long of a trauma ride. Her horse finally came to a point where (about 20 min into the ride) it would just not go anym...ore,. She was trying to manuever it and make it stop turning aroud and trying to go back to the stable, it was just too much for her. The guide slipped and let this out " well he really just hates the trail... he doesn't like to ride". why woule you put a beginner on a horse that clearly befor has shown so much aggression and hate for someone riding him??? This horse was so bad all it kept doing was trying to throw her over it's head, and off it completely. She has rope burn on her hands, and I finally had to ASK the guide to please go help her!!! I could see how scared she was, and it made me scared. Now this was really serious. Her health was in danger. Her horse then kicked my horse and me, and made my horse scared an Read More

I took my gf here as a surprise, hoping for a romatic ride in the woods, and left just escaping DEATH, so shaken up, literally. I should have known upon arriving that these people were not frindly, whatsoever, and this was a bad choice. The woman who took our info of si...gning a waiver, and my $120 for a 2 hour ride was rude and did not even each out a hand, and introduce herself. neither did anyone thhere, the entire time, including the guide. we expected a small lesson at least, considering they knew we were beginners and had NEVER ridden before. they offered nothing but "pull right to go right, pull left to go left." As we started they said that my gf eva's horse was a "slowpoke". we rode and my horse seemed to be ok, a little unruly but nothing I couldn't handle the more I got used to him, or so I thought. Her horse was looking for food, stopping, and the signs of this horse being completely unridable, esp. for a beginner, were soon showing...( not 1 min into the trail). we went alon Read More