{"id":198873,"date":"2026-03-10T21:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/198873\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T21:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:57:08","slug":"trail-riders-navigate-houston-traffic-en-route-to-the-rodeo-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/198873\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail riders navigate Houston traffic en route to the rodeo \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-545773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-Valley-Lodge-Trail-Riders-began-in-1959-1000x709.jpg\" alt=\"People on horses carrying flags ahead of covered wagons\" width=\"1000\" height=\"709\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/>Members of the Valley Lodge Trail Ride, which began in 1959.<\/p>\n<p>Under normal conditions, travelling along Houston&#8217;s roads and highways can be&#8230;challenging. Now imagine that same commute, but on horseback, or with a team of mules pulling a covered wagon.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what happens, of course, each year, as trail riders come into the city ahead of each <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rodeohouston.com\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>In the audio above, Houston Matters producer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/staff\/michael-hagerty\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Michael Hagerty<\/a> catches up with one of the oldest trail ride groups taking part this year: the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/valley-lodge-trail-ride-association.constantcontactsites.com\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Valley Lodge Trail Ride Association<\/a>, which has been riding to the rodeo since 1959.<\/p>\n<p>PHOTOS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of the Valley Lodge Trail Ride, which began in 1959. Under normal conditions, travelling along Houston&#8217;s roads&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1174,56,58,28002,4978,57,5733,6795,78250,78251],"class_list":{"0":"post-198873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-arts-culture","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-livestock-show-and-rodeo","12":"tag-houston-matters","13":"tag-houston-news","14":"tag-michael-hagerty","15":"tag-rodeo","16":"tag-trail-riders","17":"tag-valley-lodge-trail-riders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}