Happy Hills Acres

Happy Hills Acres We provide riding lessons for all ages. Horse training for basic obstacles, trail, pleasure riding, and basic ground work. Veteran owned and operated.

Obstacle course is now open for daily use (Fee required.) Contact us today to schedule a consult.

When your horse wants to watch TikTok videos with you at dinner are you just gonna tell him no?I think I need to rename ...
09/26/2026

When your horse wants to watch TikTok videos with you at dinner are you just gonna tell him no?

I think I need to rename him from to Velcro instead. Because he sticks to me like…double sided tape 😉🤣.

We should all come with warning labels…
09/24/2026

We should all come with warning labels…

Today we attempted the annual Trail Challenge at the Seneca fair. The weather stayed absolutely perfect, no rain! This y...
09/23/2026

Today we attempted the annual Trail Challenge at the Seneca fair. The weather stayed absolutely perfect, no rain! This year’s challenge was much more difficult than it has been in the past which was super cool. I really enjoyed coming and playing on this course.

This was Paola Cuevas Fortin and ’s first show ever and they actually did really well together! I couldn’t be more proud of the two of them for not only braving the competition but attempting every obstacle even through nerves and frustrations and completing it safely.

I didn’t get any good video or pictures of their performance because did her usual freak out (because her buddy wasn’t with her) so I was having to make her move her feet while they were showing. I also ended up making the decision to scratch the challenge after only 3 obstacles. She was just too overwhelmed with all of it and just not in sync with me. So for both our sake I went ahead and called it. (Although she did do a beautiful side pass trying to avoid the water box 🤣)

Poor Heidi, she has never been an arena performance horse and very much hates being in a confined space like that. She will always be a fantastic trail horse but the arena setting will never be where she shines. She and I will just have to stick to the Trail challenges on an actual Trails!

Both of us had a great time no matter the outcome of the ride. Both our horses got some much needed experience outside of my pasture and trail rides. Bubba got to see that heavy machinery, flashing lights, and multiple people and horses with LOTS of loud noises, weren’t going to hurt him.

09/22/2026

The way Noped her way back to when she noticed Epic Johnson standing watch! She made him go and make sure all was well in her pasture 🤣. Boss mare is only so brave!

09/21/2026

Baby River showed some curiosity in the obstacles yesterday on turn out while we were practicing with the other horses so we put her curiosity to work. What you see in this video is exactly what happened. The only editing done was removal of the walks up to the obstacles and the long endings of scratches just to fit the short song choice.

This is her first time ever stepping foot on any obstacle and only her second day being out of the round pen with the big horses. She showed no fear and no hesitation on anything I asked her to do. When she stopped it was because I stopped asking her to move forward. I am leading her over because she has not learned to send as of yet. Give us a few more days, she’s only been with us a week.

09/20/2026

Somewhere along the way I forgot who I was but I’m remembering now.

and I out here looking like drowned rats. The rain decided to hang out above just MY pasture as soon as I pulled up fr...
09/20/2026

and I out here looking like drowned rats. The rain decided to hang out above just MY pasture as soon as I pulled up from my ride yesterday. I saw the dark clouds from miles away and said out loud to myself, “Dang it, I hope that’s not at my place.” It was…

I had to unload my horse, unhook my trailer, and feed everyone, in a complete downpour. Take a guess when it stopped raining? Yup…as soon as I was done feeding. Of course!

Some city girl out here saying, “we needed this…” while sitting on the front porch sipping coffee. The rest of us sloshing around in the mud hoping not to fall and break a hip! Because how embarrassing would that be in the news headlines? “Woman found drowned in a mud puddle with apparent broken hip. Horses pushing her over to get to the grain she spilled.”

Had to stop mowing the pasture to admire the new teeter totter with a higher teeter to its totter made by Arboreal Creat...
09/20/2026

Had to stop mowing the pasture to admire the new teeter totter with a higher teeter to its totter made by Arboreal Creations! This heavy duty bad boy is sure to hold the draftiest of drafts and poniest of ponies! is gonna love this!

09/19/2026

I let River out of the round pen today to explore the pasture with the big horses while I was there to mow and weedeat. Turns out I didn’t need to weedeat, she’s a great little organic weedeater!

“Does this rider make my butt look big?” ~HeidiGirl probably
09/18/2026

“Does this rider make my butt look big?” ~HeidiGirl probably

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Franklin, NC

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 8pm
Friday 3pm - 8pm
Saturday 9am - 8pm
Sunday 9am - 8pm

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+18285939567

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