Our Barns

The Pit Stop

This porch-front house serves as the last barn before animals walk across a bridge to reach our lower pastures. Its prime location makes it a necessary pit stop for all the animals requiring medical treatments after their breakfast. During the summer, we add misters to the porch roof. Because it houses our feed and medical supply room, horses are often lined up at the door or standing at the back window hoping it’s like a McDonald’s drive-through with free treats!

Gil's Barn

Gil's Barn was named after the man who brought us Flower, our first rescue sheep. This space was dedicated to him when he unexpectedly passed away. It's a warm space to call home for our sheep and several goats who need to live in a quieter herd—all of whom have come here to heal from their own personal struggles and tragedies.

Country  Roads Barn

This porch barn features three extra-roomy stalls, plus one large, doorless open area outfitted with special medical comfort flooring. It is the primary home for our donkeys and our goat herd. During storms, we close the gates to their yard so the horses don't disturb them. The donkeys love piling into one stall, and finding just one or two donkeys in a stall together is a rare sight. They are big "groupies."

Safe Haven Donkey Barn

The Safe Haven Barn is a spacious, peaceful retreat for our growing herd of donkeys and goats. These gentle rescues absolutely love their unique co-living environment, and this bright white, multi-stall barn provides the perfect shared space for them to socialize, cuddle up during chilly nights, and play. With plenty of wide-open doors and roomy stalls, there is more than enough space for these cross-species best friends to live in perfect harmony.

Country Gazebos

The north and middle pastures boast two large gazebos, which are the favorite hangout spots for practically everyone at the Sanctuary, especially for lazy afternoons. The Sanctuary team often performs enrichment activities here such as brushing, braiding hair, and providing massages.

Elderly Alley

This 6-stall barn is located back down the alley where our eldest residents come to find peace and quiet. It connects directly to the medical yard and recovery stall section and is primarily used just like our other front-pasture barns for daily care and turnout.

Imagination Station Gazebo & Lean-To

Just steps away from their main barn, our custom wooden Gazebo (affectionately named the Imagination Station) and Lean-To provide our vision-impaired horses with plenty of safe, shaded, and weather-protected options for their daily turnout. Like the main barn, these structures are set flush against the fence line, making them incredibly easy and safe to navigate. It's the perfect spot for them to catch a breeze, enjoy a lazy afternoon nap out of the sun, or peacefully listen to the bustling sounds of the Sanctuary around them.

Blind Horse Barn

This special barn resides in our large, custom-built blind horse yard, thoughtfully designed with safety as the top priority. All the buildings in this area are set back so their entrances sit perfectly flush with the fencing, allowing our vision-impaired residents to confidently map their environment without bumping into jutting corners. The barn itself was built without any physical doors to ensure the horses never get caught or injured on latches; instead, we use gentle cloth door guards to keep them cozy and safe.

Medical Yard & Recovery Stall

This specially built, solid-wood stall has its own backyard surrounded by 10-foot moats on all sides. Unlike our other stalls where animals can touch noses through the bars, the solid wood walls and wide moats ensure that new arrivals undergoing quarantine cannot have any physical contact with the rest of the herd. This keeps everyone safe from health risks while still allowing the new animals to see and hear the other long-term residents, helping them learn the routines of the ranch. This stall is also outfitted with special medical comfort flooring, making it the perfect, pain-free environment for animals in critical recovery.

Six Horse Saloon

This barn has direct access to the front yard, where all the happenings of the Sanctuary take place. The two farthest stalls are furnished with patios where our injured and special cases animals reside during their long rehabilitation. The very last stall is also equipped with special medical comfort flooring, making it the ultimate space for our senior rescues or those recovering from severe neglect to find relief for their aching joints.

Stargazer’s Observatory

This porch home was originally built as a custom haven for our beloved blind and deaf sheep, Stargazer. Within this cozy space, she found solace with her favorite salt lick, a plush bed of timothy hay, and a cuddly stuffed bear companion. Today, in her memory, this sweet building serves as a welcoming retreat where all of our smaller goats and sheep get to enjoy the shade, take a snooze, and safely spend their afternoons together.

Field of Dreams Hall

The new tack room is located in our Field of Dreams pasture. With 10 acres and over 60 animals and growing, there is a lot of ground to cover with feeding and treatments. We plan to use the new tack room as another hub for feeding and treating our herd in the Field of Dreams.

Six Horse Saloon South

This 6-stall barn is located in our lower 5 acres pasture. It is specially built with one wood-lined stall, and opportunity for its own backyard with 10-foot moats on all sides for medical quarantining. Like our other quarantine areas, new animals get to observe the other long-term residents during their quarantine, to see our staff and volunteers care for the others with love and compassion. They also learn the routines of the sanctuary.

Mini's Barn

Our four mini ponies live here. The minis are more prone to getting laminitis, so they are on a special diet in a dry lot so we can easily control their intake. They get specially soaked hay to help remove sugar and prevent laminitic flare ups.

2 Lean-Tos

These two areas each have a lean-to and a yard. They are designed with a moat around them, making them the perfect quarantine space for our new arrivals!!

Track Livery

The track goes around and through our 5-acre Field of Dreams pasture. It encourages movement for all of the animals, with hay bags at different stations. This is great for all members of the herd - from the senior horses with arthritis to the donkeys and goats who need a little extra exercise! When the animals are on the track, they can interact with the minis, the blind barn, and the new 6-stall barn. The Lean-tos are quarantined, but within the track, so they can get to see and know their new herd!!

Scratching Posts

Scratching posts are scattered throughout the property and used by all the animals, big and small. It's impossible to say which body part is their favorite to itch – from ears and necks to bums and shoulders – a good scratch is all in a good day of play.

Ropes, Hulas, Bouncy Balls  & Traffic Cones

If you can lift it, throw it, run with it, or tug of war with it, the donkeys want you to bring it to them the next time you visit! They love toys and truly have the time of their lives playing with each other from sunup to sundown.