Retirement Home for Horses (Alachua, Florida)

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In 1984, Mary and Peter Gregory created a safe haven for old, abused, and abandoned horses. Mill Creek Farm in Alachua, offers hundreds of acres of serene, tree-studded rolling pastures allowing horses to roam freely, where they are never worked or ridden again. Enclosed by rustic curving wooden fences, horses at Mill Creek farm live with care and attention, and die in peace and dignity.

The Retirement Home for Horses gives lifetime care to horses seized by law enforcement, those rescued by the SPCA or Humane Societies, horses retired from government service such as police patrol, state or federal parks; horses used by handicapped riding programs; circus horses; those used in experiments or similar cases.

It's open to the public from 12pm to 2 pm on Saturdays, admission is "two bags of carrots".