Situated approximately 20 miles northwest of Boone North Carolina in Mountain City Tennessee, home buyers and vacationers can choose between custom built single family homes, town homes, and cottages themed around the rustic mountain living. Residents and visitors have a variety of shopping centers and restaurants.

Featuring 720 acres of natural woodlands, The golf club offers residents a semi-private membership and an’ hole golf course with scenic mountain views and elevation changes ranging over 400 feet. This championship level course is managed by Troon Golf(R).

Sam Adam’s Golf academy provides golf instruction personalized for you. They have entry level classes that teach skills for both the short and long game. Members enjoy the benefits of an’,000 square foot clubhouse that includes a lounge, fully stocked pro shop, and a restaurant that is perfect for formal dinners and receptions.

Active adults enjoy the newly planned equestrian center, tennis complex, and fitness center at RedTail Mountain. The equestrian center offers horse lovers large stalls and stables with acres of paddocks and miles of riding trails through the mountain terrain. The tennis complex features all weather tennis courts with lights for nighttime play. The fitness center has a large deck overlooking the valley, heated pool, and spa treatment rooms. Outside the center members can enjoy the grand fireplace, amphitheater, summer kitchen, bistro and a playground.

Skiing, snowboarding, and other winter sports activities are just 30 minutes away at Beech Mountain and Sugar Mountain. Water sports, fishing, and boating on scenic Watauga Lake is a mere 12 miles away. There are also miles of nature trails for hiking, biking, and horseback riding.

RedTail Mountain has the homes available for purchase that make great rental properties and single family homes. Land is also available for purchase that has beautiful mountain views and woodlands providing lots of privacy.

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Many horse agistment properties offer excellent care and services for horse and rider, ranging in services from spelling agistment, riding agistment and small group agistment through to agistment with full care. When looking for somewhere to place your horse, you should be sure to consider the following: are the paddocks large enough to accommodate the number of horses, will your horse be kept on improved pastures that are weed free, regularly rotated, slashed, fertilised and irrigated where required. As an extra, are winter active grasses sown to ensure your horse has feed all year round saving you from expensive feed bills. Does every paddock have horse safe fencing that is either post and rail or post and plain wire fencing only and are all well sheltered with either natural windbreaks and shade trees or quality man made structures.

Will the property organise regular worming (many require that your horse be wormed prior to arriving at the property) and will the property organise regular dentist visitations. When looking for the appropriate property, all of these factors can make your horse ownership as hassle free as possible. Some properties will even organise social rides, adult riding clubs, junior riding club, natural horsemanship clinics, fun games days etc.

It is in your own best interests to actually go out to the places you are considering and do an inspection of your own. This way you can talk to the staff and find out if they are properly trained and qualified. Make sure they are passionate about what they do and you can be sure your horse is in good hands… and again, make sure there are plenty of places nearby like national parks and riding trails to actually take your horse out for a ride whenever you can.

Whether you are agisting someone’s horses on your land or agisting your own horse on someone else’s land, there are some important things you should consider. These include the responsibilites of each party in the agistment agreement, terms and amount of fee payment and contingency plans for disease, illness or injury of the horse, and for emergencies such as fire or flood.

Want to find out more about horse agistment? Then visit Michelle Rudge’s site on how to choose the best horse agistment property for your needs.