Garret Mountain Equestrian Center Inc

It is a nice facility with wonderful horses and knowledgeable instructors, but… our trainer, Aurora often was far too busy with her cellular phone during our lessons. This might be dangerous and positively was not professional. In addition, she has poor work ethics. I was paying for full hour lesson, but she was always 5 min. late and cut lesson short by additional 10 minutes. Furthermore, she charged me for one of my two daughter «no show» ½ lesson even though Aurora herself was late for this lesson full 15 minutes. This place needs some supervision. After several months of going there are not riding there anymore.

Great family barn! They are about to start up an Equestrian team for english showing. There is a wide variety of horses to choose from. Great trail rides and pony rides for kids and families. Facility and horse are immaculate. You go to pick a horses hoof and there isn’t a drop of dirt stuck in there. Lesson horses range in levels. Management just brought in some new fun jumpers for lessons. Trainers a good and knowledgeable.

Great place and so close to Montclair! The barn management are really nice and care about the well being of the kids and horses riding there. The instructors are top notch professionals. My daughters are both taking lessons and love it. They also enjoyed summer camp there. Our whole family is looking forward to taking a trail ride this fall when the weather cools off.

Same management, although things have really gone down-​hill FAST recently. I don’t ride here anymore and it would take an aweful lot for me to go back. After a few months of seemingly smooth sailing, the barn manager left.
New instructors started to come in and my own instructor wasn’t allowed to choose the horses for lessons — which doesn’t make sense to me as the instructors should know the abilities of each of their students better than people who are just running the barn.
Now they are running 50% discounts on lesson packages in a vain attempt to get students back again as most left with their own instructors who went onto other riding centers. I feel sorry for the horses who are left behind there as they are great horses and ponies that are stuck in such a situation.

I had a really wonderful lesson. The stable has a relaxed, yet careful and serious atmosphere – a really winning combination. What I really like is that they encourage good horsemanship – students arrive early and tack up their own horses (people are around to help if need be). The stable was very organized and well kept. All the horses had big box stalls and there were some nice turnout paddocks as well.
My instructor was very friendly and patient with me and ended up spending over an hour with me. She gave me a tour of the barn that made me feel quite welcome. It’s one of the few stables in the area accessible by public transport (take the NJ transit bus from Port Authority). The park the stable is in is gorgeous – I actually saw two deer and felt like I had really left New York City – a great feeling. I’m definitely planning to go back.