The cowboys of the Old West cultivated a gruff exterior image to cover up their tender feelings toward cacti and journals full of poems about campfires. Explore your sensitive side in cowboy fashion with today’s Groupon to Silver Spur Guest Ranch in Bandera. Choose between the following options:

• For $15, you get two all-day passes for access to all the ranch’s amenities (a $30 value).
• For $30, you get two all-day passes for access to all the ranch’s amenities and two servings of either breakfast, lunch, or dinner (a $60 value).

Spanning nearly 300 acres of rolling hills and rustic Texan landscape, the Silver Spur Guest Ranch coaxes the raw-hided wrangler from within any visitor with a robust list of enjoyable amenities. Guests can break in a new pair of snakeskin running shoes on the plethora of hiking trails while patrolling the lush scenery or don their most expressive poker face for a few rounds of texas hold'em or blackjack at the poker tables. Historic haywagon rides let customers watch longhorns much on bovine goodies, and fossil digs extinguish energy that is quickly replenished around nightly campfires with the help of s'mores. Activities run the gamut from volleyball to billiards, and cowboy singers and trick-roper shows keep eardrums and eyeballs enthralled. One of the largest pools in the area, Silver Spur’s Junior Olympic–size swimming pool, provides a venue for sprinting refreshing laps or practicing subaqueous moseying. Those opting for a meal can savor delicious dishes in the large dining room, where the Western-styled interior spread out between the cedar-lined walls can accommodate more than 100 guests.

For horse-top splendor, guests can apply the value of this Groupon toward more extensive ranch experiences. Visitors can stay the night in one of the ranch's thematic guest rooms and delight in two hours of horse time, an ideal opportunity to nurture burgeoning skills in equine telepathy ($135+/adult).