Wild Horses Couldn't Drag Us away from Luxury Vacation Rentals
March 31, 2007. A recent article on Assateague Island reminded us how special it is to see wild horses. There's something about these animals that symbolizes freedom and harkens back to a different time, when the European explorers first came ashore.
Assateague Island sits of the coast of Virginia and Maryland, near Virginia Beach. America's first colonists came to this region, and historians believe the wild horses either escaped from their settlements or swam ashore from shipwrecks. Today, the animals still thrive in a protected national wildlife refuge.
Wild horses can also be found farther south, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Both of these vacation destinations are remarkable for how remote they can feel, even though they are in the midst of major resort towns and near some of the country's most populated regions.
Wild horses also roam the Western United States, particularly in the vast ranching lands of states such as Nevada and Wyoming. These two states also harbor herds of wild burro, which escaped from or were let go by the Spanish explorers who first came to this region.
