Discovering the Spirit of the High Country
 
When the road ends, the real story begins. Out here in New Zealand’s high country, fences fall away and the land rolls wild and open under the Southern sky. This is Mountain Horses Outfitters — your gateway to 78,000 hectares of untamed alpine wilderness in the legendary St James Conservation Area, a stone’s throw from Hanmer Springs.

We’re for the overseas drifters, freedom chasers, and curious souls who crave more than postcards and paved tracks. We saddle up for alpine ridgelines, river crossings, mountain passes, and campfire nights under a cathedral of stars. We ride where rivers carve valleys, where wild deer slip through the tussock at dawn, where steam rises off natural hot pools after a long day in the saddle.
 
What’s waiting for you?
Half-day rambles through alpine meadows. Full-day high country runs. Multi-day packhorse expeditions that cross rivers and crest ridgelines. Nights spent soaking bones in remote natural hot pools, swapping stories by the campfire, dreaming up tomorrow’s trail under a sky so wide you’ll forget your phone even exists.
 
Why ride with us?
Because life’s too short to stand behind fences. Because the best views aren’t found from the highway. Because freedom still exists — and it runs on four hooves, heads high, into the mountains.
So when you’re ready to trade city lights for campfire sparks, and paved roads for river crossings — saddle up. 
 
Your next frontier is waiting.
Book your saddle. Claim your freedom.