← Farm Journal · 2026-09-01

Horse Trials 10 Miles Away: River Glen Equestrian Park in New Market, TN

Board-and-batten barndominium buildings around the pasture at Cedar Pond Farms, the farm stay ten miles from River Glen Equestrian Park

If you ride, crew, or simply love watching horses fly a cross-country course, New Market, Tennessee is already on your calendar. River Glen Equestrian Park sits on the Holston River here and runs recognized USEA horse trials several times a year — spring, June, summer and fall — with divisions from Starter all the way up through Advanced/Intermediate, and FEI CCI2*-S and CCI3*-S divisions on the June card. Riders haul in from across the Southeast for the cross-country course, the dressage rings and the show jumping arena.

Ten miles from the in-gate

Cedar Pond Farms is a working Scottish Highland cow farm about ten miles from River Glen — close enough for an early ride time, far enough that your evenings are pasture-quiet. Our long farm drive and open ground mean real room for a truck and horse trailer, not a hotel lot where you circle for two spaces that touch. Pull in, park level, and walk to your door.

Elevated stays with a view of the herd

Our barndominium farm stays are elevated, modern suites and whole-building rentals with long views over the fields — the kind of porch you actually use after a day at the trials. Book direct and the farm dresses your room before you arrive: Cedar Pond robes, Gelato Brothers gelato in the freezer, and fresh flowers cut from our own gardens.

For the horse-crazy, one more thing

You came for horses; you will leave talking about cows. Our Premium Highland Cow Experience puts you in the field with the fluffiest herd in East Tennessee — brushing, photos, and two hours with animals who love the attention. It is the thing our equestrian guests say they did not expect to love this much.

Competition weekends fill early. If River Glen is on your season plan, reserve your farm stay the day you enter.

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