RESERVATIONS!! 520-825-0208

Hey Tucson!  For reservations through Winterhaven on a wagon pulled by mules or horses, call us at 520-825-0208!   Also, check out our site at www.winterhavenrides.com

Hope we see you out there!  It is BEAUTIFUL!!

To the Residents of Winterhaven......  YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME!!  You did a great job this year.  I'm impressed!!

Winterhaven 2011!

Winterhaven 2011 is on!  We are scheduled from Dec. 10th through Dec. 25th.  We are excited to be invited back and hope we can make your Holiday special.  We also hope to raise lots of food donations for the Tucson Food Bank! 

We feel that this time of year we like to give thanks and appreciate all we have.  We also try to help others if we can.  This year we have partnered with St. Jude Childrens Hospital.  We decided to donate some of our wagons to St. Jude.  We will take the wagon renter through Winterhaven and have them make the check for payment directly to St. Jude.  Help us help kids this year!!

Happy Holidays!

Winterhaven 2011 update!

Well, we had a meeting with the folks in charge of the Winterhaven Festival of Lights and you can all plan on the festival in 2011.  Thanks to generous donations of time and $$, the festival is definately planned for December 10th through December 25th 2011!  Can't wait!

Julie

2010 Winterhaven Festival a Success!!

Thank you to all of Tucson who participated in the 2010 Winterhaven Festival of Lights this year.  This was a very special year for Winterhaven as it is the first year it was privately funded.  We have to say that the decorations in the community were AWESOME!  The high lights in the trees were FABULOUS!  All of you private homeowners in Winterhaven did a tremendous job putting on a show for the record books.  Thank you from all of us who enjoy this event. 

Thank you to all of our patrons who rode the wagons this year.  You guys generated so much food for the food bank!  You also made our season a special year. We appreciate all of you and hope that we make your holiday as special of an event as you make ous.  We try to provide a fun ride and hope you guys experienced some of the magic of this event!

We had one proposal this year on the wagons and we will hope they ride for their anniversary for many years to come!  

Thank you to all of those who walk through Winterhaven.  It truly is a sight to behold and that is an excellent way to experience all the magic of the event!

Thank you for all of you who drove through Winterhaven and brough those dontations for the food bank.  

Together, we can do anything!  That is the beauty of this amazing country we live in!

Julie Wycoff

The Holiday Season is Upon US!!

Well,  every day that brings us closer to the start of this event fills us with anticipation.  We are busy driving mules to prepare them for pulling at Winterhaven.  We are trying to answer all the questions that you call us with.  We are making reservations and looking forward to Saturday.  One thing that we have realized throughout this period is that this holiday event is not just about riding through Winterhaven and seeing the beautiful lights.  We realize that it is ultimately about making memories for you to share with those you love.  Those memories are precious and we don't always realize what that means until those memories are all we have.  Our family has a tradition and that is putting on the wagon rides through winterhaven.  When my son, Jake, came home from school with an assignment which was to describe a tradition that we practice through this season he wrote that we do Winterhaven.  At first this troubled me that we don't have any other tradition that he has to relate to this most Special Holiday.  After some thought, however, I arrived at a realization to what we really do.  We have the tradition of making memories for all of you who come and share this season with us.  I have spoken with so many patrons who have ridden with us through winterhaven with loved ones that they have lost.  They thank us for being there.  That is what this holiday event is about.  Bringing that special closeness to families so that they can look back on this event and remember....   We will try to bring you great memories!

THANK YOU FOR SHARING OUR TRADITION WITH US!!    Red, Julie, Jake and Kiki!

Tucson ROCKS!!

Winterhaven 2010!  Well, Tucson should be proud!  Thanks to the Pasqua Yaqui Indian Tribe, Ford, and MANY more, Winterhaven 2010 is on!! 

It is so exciting to be a part of such a nostalgic, magical event.  We can only hope that our part in this event provides happy Holiday memories that will last a lifetime for our patrons!  We also know that all of you out there will bring record food donations for the Tucson Food Bank! They will be set up in Winterhaven and can be dropped off at our site at Country Club and Ft. Lowell, just North of the Circle K.   Lets make this a grand slam year for food donations as there are many many people who can use it!  

Thank You for this opportunity, Tucson!!  

All of us at Winterhaven Rides!

Winterhaven Festival of Lights... So Far So Good!

Many of you are calling with questions regarding the 2010 Winterhaven Festival of Lights.   One question was whether or not the lights would be good this year, as the City of Tucson is usually hired by the Winterhaven LLC to string some of the lights in the trees for the festival.  In order to help alleviate unnecessary expense, the Winterhaven LLC has decided to look for other options than paying the very high price that the City of Tucson has charged in the past.  One option they have entertained was to take bids and hire a private company with lift access so that the lights could be placed as they have been through the years past.  Therefore, the lights should be the same as years past.  Remember, many of the residents provide their own decorations and lights in their yards...  that is what really makes the Festival!  Either way, with the effort from the Neighborhood of Winterhaven, all the vendors and everyone who has donated either $ or time, this ought to be an extra special year!    We can't wait!!