{"id":648418,"date":"2026-03-11T16:57:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/648418\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T16:57:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:57:33","slug":"trail-riders-navigate-houston-traffic-en-route-to-the-rodeo-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/648418\/","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.europesays.com\/us\/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><strong>PHOTOS:<\/strong><\/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":3,"featured_media":648419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[9971,4345,109648,16305,27035,45746,358,274350,3187,274351],"class_list":["post-648418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-arts-culture","tag-houston","tag-houston-livestock-show-and-rodeo","tag-houston-matters","tag-michael-hagerty","tag-rodeo","tag-texas","tag-trail-riders","tag-tx","tag-valley-lodge-trail-riders"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116211603885269991","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}