Meadowlark Ranch

Meadowlark Ranch is a guest ranch in Boulder County, Colorado that hosts weddings and corporate events, boards horses, and works to preserve heritage horse breeds. Its website and private operations platform serve guests, ranch staff, horse boarders, therapy partners, and event coordinators.

Visit the live site

Type: Website
Client: Meadowlark Ranch
Location: Boulder County, Colorado
Year: 2026
My role: Website, staff dashboard, and client portal development
Status: Live

Meadowlark Ranch homepage: three black draft horses in a mountain pasture behind a script Meadowlark Ranch title, with a row of photo thumbnails and an Event Services button

Meadowlark Ranch homepage on a phone: script title over a team of black Percherons pulling a carriage, with a Heritage Horses tagline and an Event Services button

The brief

Meadowlark Ranch runs weddings, corporate events, carriage services, and horse boarding, and hosts therapy partners who book time on the ranch. Staff needed one place for horses, contracts, bookings, and invoices, with QuickBooks Online kept as the source of truth, while boarders, partners, and event coordinators each needed a private portal. I also wanted staff to be able to update the public website themselves, without touching code.

What I built

Public website with a hero slider, mega menus with looping video cards, an FAQ accordion, and pages for weddings, corporate events, carriage services, and horse boarding
Block-based page builder in the staff dashboard, so staff can edit and publish public pages, including the home page, without code
Staff dashboard for horse records and health history, printable feed charts per horse and for the whole barn, boarding contracts, bookings, tasks, and inventory
Client portal where boarders see their horses and the barn’s daily care log, keep documents, sign contracts and waivers, and pay invoices
Invite-only area where therapy partners request time on the ranch, with staff approval into the calendar and records for their sessions
Event coordinator workflow: inquiry approval, rental agreement e-signing, deposit and balance payments, change requests, a shared day-of checklist, and close-out
QuickBooks Online sync with QuickBooks Payments for card and bank payments, autopay with emailed receipts, and refunds from the invoice page
Shared team inbox for inbound and outbound mail, Google Calendar sync, and file storage