Gathering for branding spring 2008
Let us be your pathfinder to the best wild life and bird
watching in southeast Colorado where viewing opportunities
are limitless, educational and fun.  We  have lived the ranch
and cowboy life our entire lives and wish to share our
knowledge of the area and rural life with you.

Arena Dust Tours offers private
lesser prairie chicken lek
viewing and we have a private birding and walking trail open
to birders and hikers all year round.  
We are a
Colorado Birding Trail Official Site   












Ranch Tours are available to view cowboys doing everyday
cattle, horse, and ranch work.  You can live a part of our
western life with cowboy camps and entertainment,
such as barn dances, horse drawn
wagon rides,western theme birthday
parties and much more.


We will take you on a guided tour
or you may go it alone to view these
historic sites:
Camp Amache-the Japanese
Relocation Camp,
Sand Creek Massacre
National Historic Site,
Big Timbers Museum, Bent's Fort,
John Martin Dam and State Park,
Queen Lakes, Two Buttes Mountain
and old dam site, Picture Canyon,
Boggsville, and the
Division of Wildlife Sanctuary.
Official Colorado Birding Trail acknowledgment 2007
Fred and Norma
Dorenkamp accepting
their Official Colorado
Birding Trail Site
designation at the
Burrowing owl photopraphed on our private trail-Courtesy of Don Poulton
Burrowing owl
photographed
on our private
trail-Photo
courtesy of
Don Poulton
Wildlife in Southeast Colorado
Rounding up cattle for spring branding.  
Come join us for this type of experince.
Wild turkey in Southeast Colorado
Wildlife photographed in
Southeast Colorado
by Itty Bitty Ranch Photography for
ARENA DUST TOURS
We provide a unique opportunity for a southeast Colorado getaway-rural, historic, quiet and personal