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Florida Equestrian Community, Horse Riding Trails

Featuring luxury executive homes on large lots and acreage, from 2-1/2 to 10 acres, Southwest Ranches offers a rural equestrian lifestyles, horse farms and miles of riding trails. A fiercely independent suburban community, 13 square miles in western Broward County, this picturesque little town takes pride in its rural ambience, peaceful open scenery, grazing animals, nurseries, farms and ranchettes, natural wildlife.

To preserve its rural lifestyle Southwest Ranches enacted laws to keep houses built on lots less than one acre, restrict streetlights and sidewalks. Zoning is almost entirely rural residential and agricultural, prevents encroaching development, preserves land for residents’ recreation and enjoyment.

The town also features the Sunshine Ranches Equestrian Park, a lushly-landscaped 20 acre park located north of the intersection of Stirling Road and Volunteer Road in Sunshine Ranches, with 10 acres of Horse and Nature Trails, a 10,400 square foot equestrian practice ring, 37,500 square foot equestrian show ring with judges’ stand, a farm-themed Playground with parents’ seating area, plenty of trailer parking, a wash race and horse shoe court, and a spectacular “Equestrian Oasis” designed by artist Richard Medlock to water your horse.