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Activities Offered
  • Horseback Riding
Building Access
  • Meets ADA standards

Membership Fees
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Transportation
  • Accessible by Public Transportation: No

  • Transportation Provided by the Program: No

Notes

At MoonRise Farm in Taftsville, Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports offers a therapeutic riding program which partners horses and young people with a Therapeutic Riding instructor to achieve goals established by the students themselves, parents, teachers, counselors or other care givers. Located on 45 acres in the historic district of Taftsville, Vermont, MoonRise Farm features an c1850 3-story Post and Beam barn, 3-5 therapeutic horses, 7 pastures, a riding ring and woodland/field trails.

MoonRise Farm therapeutic riding program provides individual and group lessons for students with physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral and learning challenges. All programs are designed to meet the particular therapeutic and educational needs of the student.

Student activities may include:
  • Grooming and getting to know the horse they will work with.
  • Groundwork such as leading activities, round penning and lunging.
  • Mounted activities: walk, trot and canter, ground poles, small jumps and games.
  • Barn management skills such as feeding the horses and cleaning the stalls.