Terry Bison Ranch Resort

Yee-haw! If Western-themed Wyoming hols are your USA holiday thang, we suggest you lasso your cowboys and cowgirls and gallop along smartish to the state's Bison Ranch Resort.

You could lay your hat here for weeks with the range of Western-themed activities on offer at this big and family-friendly park, from horseback riding into the prairie to pony rides for younger cowboys/girls, to the entertainment, heaps of good food, all-terrain vehicle tours and info on the history and culture of Wyoming.

And – very much a billy bonus – guests can take train tours on the dinky little locomotives into the middle of the site's bison herd: pretence of cowboy living very much encouraged during same.

For Junior, there's the Kid Corral with Ferris wheel, merry-go-round, horseshoe pits and aeroplane ride – somehow we don't think they'll give a hoot about the authenticity or not of this last in the days of cowboy.

Kids can also try their luck fishing on site, and the Terry Bison team will take, clean, gut and cook their catch for them for a small extra charge.

Catches and other food are dished up at the Tombstone Café for breakfast and the Senator's Steakhouse for lunch and a most hearty cowboy dinner. Need something more exciting? Catch the Sunday lunch train for a meal on the move or sashay along to a special event like the dinner, dance and auction of Dance in the Buff.

The ranch also has a gift shop, selling souvenirs and packs of buffalo meat.