Where to settle in Chestnut Ridge

Atreya33 · January 30

My supersim will be moving to the world to Chestnut Ridge but I can't decide which lot. So where should she move too?

She will be living there with her boyfriend Kiyoshi, her cat Caramel and at least one horse. Her goal will be to complete the aspirations that come with the pack.

I already had one sim living in New Appaloosa so preferably one of the two other neighbourhoods. Which would you recommend and why?

simgirl1010 · January 30

Rider's Glen

I chose Riders Glen simply because it has the 64x64 lot with plenty of room for farming, ranching, horse training , and gardening.

luthienrising · January 30

New Appaloosa

My Sims live in New Appaloosa. I think I'm remembering the right one

I like the location is the main thing. Trail riding starting there is great!

Lenny_Ogg · January 30

Galloping Gulch is stunning to explore

But we lived in Chestnut Ridge for two (RL) months, so we were happy to move on to Rider's Glen. It was a bit greener and less depressing.

There are a few awesome places to build a ranch and that lot on the hill is so beautiful.

Maybe your Sims can have a few ride outs with camping to Galloping Gulch and live in Rider's Glen?

New Appaloosa wasn't much appealing for us to live there for longer.

haisin · January 30

Galloping Gulch

My sim chose Palomino Junction in Galloping Gulch and I have liked it there, but I have to admit I haven't explored the other two neighbourhoods enough, yet.

GalacticGal · January 30

Rider's Glen

I, also settled my Sims into the only 64 X 64 lot in and while my ranch layout isn't as profoundly organized and beautiful as @simgirl1010's is. It does allow for much needed space for three horses and seven kids.

EnkiSchmidt · January 30

Galloping Gulch

It's nice not to have a loading screen between your homelot and Dreadhorse cavern, in case the aspiration or challenge requires reaching a certain level in the cave.

LeucosiaX · January 30

Galloping Gulch

My favorite lot to play was the 50 x 50 in Galloping Glutch. Its a small barn, but I find my sims are a lot more focus in small houses and they have a lot of land to train. Now I have a beautiful Adobe style ranch now, I style I never thought I would love before, but they are living their best life there now. There is land for a prawling one floor house, which I really prefer for infants, they have twins. It's a large enough house and there is still room for gardening, fishing pond. swimmable pon and two stables and room for the goats and sheep and crops. It area has the most sublime breathing views and trails. It's really my favorite.

Screenshot 2024-01-30 at 3.16.22 PM by leucosia x, on Flickr

Screenshot 2024-01-30 at 3.14.20 PM by leucosia x, on Flickr

Screenshot 2024-01-30 at 3.16.08 PM by leucosia x, on Flickr

Flickrs literally said "yee haw" when I uploaded these.
I should become a Sims real estate agent.
This build I got from the gallery. It's up for a nomination of best builds as well. When I get in the game tonight I will find the creator and post it in that thread.

mightysprite · January 30

That's beautiful @LeucosiaX !

LeucosiaX · January 30

Galloping Gulch

mightysprite wrote: »

That's beautiful @LeucosiaX !

@mightysprite When I was younger we me from California to Nevada to go to Vegas, the scenic route. Detoured through route 66 and Death Valley. I never saw anything so sublime but this reminds me of that. We saw the Grand Canyons on the flight back- That too, also Galloping Gulch reminds of that on Sim's scale.

LeucosiaX · January 30

Galloping Gulch

@simgirl1010 I love what you did with Riders Glen. For sure that lot is the world's aspiration. It's really beautiful and the perfect spot for a ranch.

@GalacticGal Great job with your ranch there as well. Three horses and 7 kids, wow. That's a hard game.

Evilyn_1007 · January 30

Rider's Glen

I voted Rider's Glen when I meant Galloping Gulch.

But both are really great and have a lot of area to ride. Also if you are worried about space in Galloping Gulch. I felt like neither neighborhood required me to have horse training equipment on my lot as there are plenty scattered around. Just the ball and you are good to go.

GalacticGal · January 30

Rider's Glen

@LeucosiaX Thank you. I thrive on a challenge. Besides, by the time baby number seven came along, surprising his parents and much older siblings, the family dynamic was 1 YA; 5 Teens. Then the twins aged up to YA. They aged up in the middle of their second term in university, although they were studying from home. (That's the way to do it, if you can't rotate out.)

simgirl1010 · January 31

Rider's Glen

Thanks @LeucosiaX but I can't take all the credit. I downloaded the ranch from the Gallery and made a few changes.

This is the original.

LeucosiaX · January 31

Galloping Gulch

simgirl1010 wrote: »

Thanks @LeucosiaX but I can't take all the credit. I downloaded the ranch from the Gallery and made a few changes.

This is the original.

Oh that's a very nice ranch. It's has everything, capacity for a lot farm animals as well as a lot of space for them to run around, as well. I really like that! Those paths, ...I always have a difficult time making spray look so realistic. Thanks for sharing @simgirl1010

I always like to customize builds from the gallery to make it feel like my own, as well.
This is the build I shared on the opposite side of the world for the Palomino Junction lot in Galloping Gulch

Screenshot 2024-01-30 at 6.36.44 PM by leucosia x, on Flickr

Of course I changed the 2nd room to a 2 infant nursery, added crops to garden area and even made more garden area. I love when I love with my sims, from any lot, to take all their awards and stuff. I was so scared loading this one, I had to gather all the wins from the horses to display in the new gallery space in the open area of the home.

@simgirl1010 incase you didnt notice, I still have not figured out how to used the spoiler feature. I attempted to for the image like you did and I just get crossed out address to the image. I dont get how to remove the address to the image yet.
Apologies y'all if you didnt want to see it.

Simmingal · January 31

Galloping Gulch

I was gonna say New Appaloosa since I love cozy corner that is close to town

but since you've already been in New Appaloosa I think Palomino Junction in Galloping Gulch is another good little starter house, has space ready for horse and that lot is huge as well if you want to expand as you play

moved Ted and Meredith Roswell there myself, they've gone into hiding after the whole strangerville thing

Atreya33 · January 31

Thank you all for your great suggestions. Looks like Rider's Glen is slightly in the lead so I went with that. The 64x64 lot is great to have enough room for horses.

I started building just before @LeucosiaX and @simgirl1010 posted their great lots. It might have saved me some time building if I had seen them before I started. They both look great. I will have a look at them later.

Meanwhile I started building my own little ranch. The main building with stables is finished but the lot will come along during gameplay because I will need a greenhouse and a cow/llama shed.

Callisto with Caramal in front of their new home.

Some interior views

@Lenny_Ogg The suggestion to go camping in Galloping Gulch is great. My sims will (hopefully) enjoy that trip. My sims always use tents to go camping, never sleeping bags so that might be interesting. Now I wonder if it often rains in Chestnut Ridge...
@EnkiSchmidt Thanks for pointing out the dreadhorse cave might be needed for aspirations. I checked and it is not. Otherwise that would have been the decisive factor. It is good to be reminded of them all the same. I totally forgot about that rabbit hole. I will send my sim in a few times.

Lenny_Ogg · January 31

@Atreya33 in those two months it only rained once - but that was a night to remember.

SheriSim57 · January 31

I have a family in the large lot in Galloping Gulch, a single guy and his horse in riders glen, and in town I have a cafe/jail/bank on a 20x20 lot. I love Chestnut Ridge.

Atreya33 · January 31

SheriSim57 wrote: »

I have a family in the large lot in Galloping Gulch, a single guy and his horse in riders glen, and in town I have a cafe/jail/bank on a 20x20 lot. I love Chestnut Ridge.

Th world is beautiful. The sims team is rather good at giving us stunning worlds. They only need to remember to add in enough collectibles. (looking at you San Sequioa) Luckily chestnut ridge has this covered with prairie grass.

BoergeAarg61 · January 31

Other

Every unoccupied residental lot with enough beds and bathrooms would do.

Atreya33 · February 4

After the first ride on the ranch, I took my sims to explore the rest of the world on horseback.

This was a tricky picture to make and took several attempts.

At first there seemed to be cyclists in the middle of the desert

Then I wanted to get both sims at the same spot but Callisto went at a faster speed than her fiance for no reason.

Then they both were at the same spot at the same speed... at almost exactly the same spot

Making screenshots with multiple riders seems trickier than I thought.

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