Equestrian Center
Liberty Mountain Equestrian Center is a USHJA Recognized Riding Academy that expands across a 380-acre property on Liberty Mountain. Open to Liberty University students, faculty, and staff, the Equestrian Center is one of the largest facilities of its kind in Virginia, featuring indoor and outdoor riding arenas as well as three barns with 78 horse stalls. Even if you don’t ride, you can always stop by and see the horses—take a study break and enjoy all that Liberty University has to offer at the Equestrian Center!
COVID-19 Regulations
- Equestrian Center Barns, Area and Classroom are operating at a limited capacity.
- Masks must be worn while indoors and outdoors anytime 6 feet spacing cannot be maintained.
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Trail Rides
Free guided trail rides are available for LU students, faculty, and staff by appointment.
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Horse Boarding
Bring your horse to school and get full-care boarding at the Liberty Mountain Equestrian Center.
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Main Barn
This barn houses the main offices for the Liberty Mountain Equestrian Center, horses for the Liberty programs, and includes:
- Eight 12’x12’ stalls
- 14’ wide concrete aisle way with rubber matting
- Men’s and women’s restrooms and changing rooms
- Wash stall with hot and cold water
- Tack room/tack cleaning room/laundry room
- Farrier bay and hay storage
- Climate-controlled feed room
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Indoor Riding Arena
The Indoor Riding Arena is 120’ x 300’, as large as any collegiate indoor in Virginia, and features the following:
- Footing made of kyanite sand mixed with rubber and Euro-Fiber atop a packed sand base. A polymer sand additive holds moisture in the footing and keeps it firm
- LED lighting to provide an extraordinary bright riding area
- Three large cupolas to exhaust hot air out the top
- Five 14’ ceiling fans to circulate air throughout the building
- A large concrete pad extending down one side of the arena
- Bleacher seating for about 200 people
- An enclosed, heated judge and announcer stand with a 3000 watt PA system
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Outdoor Riding Arena
The Outdoor Riding Arena is 120’ x 300’ and features the following:
- Footing made of Virginia river sand
- Underground drainage to carry rainwater off to a nearby retention pond
- Large stadium lights to illuminate the arena at night
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Boarder’s Barn
This barn is available for boarding of student horses and includes:
- Twenty 12’ x 12’ stalls with rubber matted floors, Dutch back doors opening out to outdoor dry lot
- Several offices for team coaches, grad students, and barn staff. All offices, tack rooms and restrooms are climate controlled
- Barn Staff and Student Worker Lounge with kitchenette
- Restroom / Shower / Changing Room
- Two wash stalls with hot and cold water
- Farrier bay and hay storage
- Boarder tack room with laundry facilities
- Horsemanship Classroom with digital projection equipment
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Liberty Barn
This barn is the home to Liberty University horses and includes:
- Twenty-four 12’ x 12’ stalls with rubber matted floors, Dutch back doors opening out to outdoor dry lot
- Men’s and women’s restrooms
- Men’s and Women’s Equestrian Team locker rooms – each member has a private locker
- Two wash stalls with hot and cold water
- Farrier bay and hay storage
- Equestrian Team tack room/tack cleaning room
- Equestrian Team Lounge
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Riding Lessons