Roy Rogers Double R Bar Ranch: Happy Trails and Cowboy Tales Lives On
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Doug Stoker
coolest picture ever american flag riding your horse with the harley riders you should get some 8x10s of that
Jaylyn
We agree! Thanks for the kudos and comments, Doug!
Linda Rose
How cool is this! It is great that Roy and Dale’s Double R Bar Ranch is being used again in such a productive way! Love the picture of the American Flag Jim is carrying among the parade of motorcycles! We didn’t always have a TV growing up but when we did Roy Rogers was our favorite cowboy. Like Roy I was born in Ohio. At 71 yr now I am enjoying his old movies on the internet. Back then good and evil was well defined and good always won in the end. Have a great day!
Jaylyn
Thanks so much, Linda! We certainly agree with you about Roy and how times change. We appreciate your comments.
Teresa Taylor
Hi I am trying to figure out if this is still an event venue? Our company is interested in the possibility of scheduling an event here.
Many thanks
Jaylyn
Hi Teresa! Yes, The Double R Bar Ranch can be used as a venue. And what an awesome one it would be! The Heffel’s phone number is at the bottom of our article. Thanks for contacting us! Happy Trails.
Peggy
Love this write up, nice job!
Jaylyn
Thanks so much, Peggy! We appreciate your kindness.
Julie
I’ve resumed watching The Roy Rogers Show, after 53 years of allowing a down right mean treatment by Roy at Catherine ‘ s Landing, when Ray had a cast on his leg and sneered at my 13 year old brother and me to , “…LEAVE US ALONE!!!…” In hindsight, I now realize that even stars need time out of the limelight. Television shows, nowadays, are trashy, not like the Roy Rogers Show. I wish all of his descendents the very best. I hope the whole brood realizes what lucky people they are to have been adopted by Dale and Roy! Keep their memory alive!!
Jaylyn
Thanks for your kind words. I will pass your message on to Dodie Rogers, their daughter. Happy trails.
Rachel
My husband and I will be traveling Route 66 this summer and would love to see the ranch. Do they do tours or have a vents we might be able to attend?
Jaylyn
Hi Rachel. Please call owner Jim Heffel at 760-954-7262 to make arrangements. Happy Trails!
Jaylyn
Sounds like trip of a lifetime. I’m sure you’ll have a blast, Dave. Please call Double R Bar Ranch owner Jim Heffel at 760-954-7262 to make arrangements. Happy Trails!
Yvette
Hi yes i would love to take my husband to see the ranch he would love it! And we alive in apple valley i did not know this was here.
Jaylyn
The ranch is open for tours, Yvette. Just call ahead to iron out details. Please call owner Jim Heffel at 760-954-7262. Happy trails!
Linda Kruse Crandell
Good story. Memories…….. Thank you….
Dusty Corrigan
Thanks for all you do to carry on Roy and Dale’s terrific legacy. I wonder if you might be willing to begin to try to undo a wee bit of damage to that legacy that’s being done by all references to “the Roy Roger’s Ranch,” which, because of the incorrect use of an apostrophe, implies that the man’s name was “Roy Roger,” which obviously it was not, it was “Roy Rogers.” It is clear that your intent is to honor Roy’s legacy the best way possible, and it is greatly appreciated, but because of this incorrect handling of his name, you cause a number of his fans to cringe every time we see his name misrepresented in this way. (I’m confident that I’m not the only one.) His name even appears incorrectly on Google Maps where it points to the ranch. It needs to be corrected on Google, on any signs, and in many places on the blog and other material put out by the Heffels and others involved with the ranch. If in doubt, just take out that cursed apostrophe between the “r” and the “s” in Rogers, everywhere it appears. It doesn’t belong there. Again, what you’re doing to carry on Roy and Dale’s legacy is much appreciated, but please let’s all try to get their names right. Thanks!
Steve Emery
I’m glad you two now own the ranch, you are the perfect couple. I grew up watching Roy and Dale and never once heard a negative thing said about either of them. My mouth dropped open when I first went inside Roy’s museum and marveled at his gun collection and his boot collection and it all kept a smile on my face all day long because it all brought back wonderful memories of being a kid and having six-shooters and playing cowboy and Indians. I liked being the good guy like Roy and Hopalong Cassity, and the Lone Ranger but Roy was the king of cowboys. I live in Helendale and drive by the RR sign almost daily and one day I stopped by the front gate, took a look and got back in my car and left. I’m really glad to read the history of the ranch and you two.
Fred Barnett
Watched many RR movies sat mornings with my little friends in Bluefield WVa. Cost 10 cents for movie ,serial an cartoon. Many cowboy movies came along every Saturday morning, Lash Laure, Gene Autry, Rocky Lane ,Bob Steel, Durango Kid, Wild Bill Elloit, Sunset Carson but Roy Roger’s was always the favorite
William F Christie
The Roy Rogers show is now being broadcast every weekday at 6:00 p.m. (Pacific Time) on the World Harvest Television network. I watched the original show when I was a little boy in the 50’s. The show is great fun and rather campy at times. When would a real cowboy prance around town the way Roy did in his flashy urban cowboy outfits? LOL
I love the show, although this could never be made nowadays because Roy always had at least 1 to 3 fist fights per episode. I got the impression the guy was itching for a fist fight. But always in a good cause! Roy also could not indiscriminately shoot off his gun at fleeing villains as he does while riding Trigger in the show. I often thought that Mineral City had more desperados and criminals per square foot than any other place on earth, since each episode brought a fresh crop of bad guys for Roy to beat up. LOL Interestingly, many of the bad guys may have been contract players since they kept re-appearing week after week (My mom was a Goldwyn Girl, which really dates me!).
Lots of blessings and good luck to the current owners. When the Museum was closed down, I was appalled that no wealthy wild west tycoon didn’t step in and buy the entire collection. Now it is split up all over the world and can never be recovered. But at least you saved the ranch. Thank you.
Christina Haufe
Glad I found your website! I was looking at my photos from Jackson and remembered meeting you two in the park after your ride. We sat on the park bench with my friend Jim and we talked to about an hour.
The ranch looks great and I hope you are all well!
Best
Christina
Allison Back
I love Roy Rogers and his Horse: Trigger, Trigger J. also Dale Evens and her Horse: Butter Milk.
I love there Episodes of Roy Rogers and Dale Evens
Happy Trails
Gordon J. Van De Water
Dear Mr. Heffel, Four adults are taking a drive to Grand Canyon from Diamond Bar, California on Monday, May 9th. Is it possible to visit the Ranch on that day? With thanks, and hope for an answer. Thank you, Gordon J. Van De Water
Kat Rogers
What Fun!! My girlfriend, Tina, grew up in San Bernardino and she used to tell me how her younger sisters used to go play with the Rogers kids at their ranch. I told Tina how I loved watching the Roy Rogers movies in the late ’40s and the TV show in the ’50s. Later, we both visited the museum when it was in Victorville and that’s when we saw a photo of the childhood actor who played Little Beaver in the Red Ryder series: it was Robert Blake (look up his career, it’s astounding.) One of Tina’s sisters settled with her husband in Lucerne Valley not too far from Apple Valley, and may still be there today. I was thrilled to find that someone now owns and cares for the double R bar. I’d love to visit someday.