Property Description

This ranch is nestled in an exclusive and very private beautiful valley adjoining thousands of acres of public land. It is located only about 45 miles southwest of Colorado Springs, and is a great place to relax and enjoy Colorado at its best. The snow skiing resort town of Breckenridge is within an hour and a half drive. Trout fishing and white water rafting in one of the top 10 trout fishing and rafting rivers in the United States, the Arkansas River, is only 25 miles away. The ranch is complemented with easy access being located on a hard surface road that is one of Colorado's most beautiful highways, and is classified as a Colorado Scenic Byway. This same highway is part of The Gold Belt Tour. The ranch is located within a few miles of one of Colorado's three casino towns, Cripple Creek. Cripple Creek is a fully restored historical gold rush town of the 1890's, and offers in addition to gambling many fine restaurants. This ranch's improvements include a distinctive and impressively placed 3,600 square foot living area cedar and stone home with four bedrooms, three baths, study, and great room with large stone fireplace. One of the bedrooms has a second fireplace. This beautiful home has slate and cherry wood floors throughout, solid wood doors, cherry wood cabinetry and granite countertops in the kitchen and bathrooms. The kitchen also has a triple sink, food disposal, dishwasher, trash compactor, microwave, gas stove, large refrigerator, cherry wood custom cabinetry and a large walk in pantry. All windows are double pained energy efficient with most of them being casement windows. The guest wing of the house has its own front entrance as well as a door going out onto the rear porches. It has wraparound porches that add an additional 700 square feet of covered space and 250 square feet of open deck. The view from anywhere on the ranch is spectacular, but is especially beautiful from the house. The views from every window of this house are outstanding. The ranch has a 65'x85' barn with six horse stalls, walk out paddocks, tool room and saddle room. The barn also has an apartment with full bath, kitchen and fireplace. The apartment, tool and saddle room walls and ceilings are all finished with beautiful 1"x6" tongue and groove beetle kill pine. All walls and ceilings of these rooms are insulated and the saddle and tool rooms were designed for easy conversion to extra guest quarters. There are two RV hookups, one inside and one outside the barn. There are at least four more livestock, implement and hay sheds on the ranch. The horse corrals are part of the ranch headquarters and are made of welded metal tubing. The corrals cover about three acres of well planned paddocks that all lead to the barn. The ranch is perimeter fenced. Trophy mule deer hunting on the ranch and surrounding public land is outstanding with trophy mule deer seen from the windows of the house on a regular basis. You and your guest may use for hunting, horseback riding, hiking, biking as well as fishing the thousands of acres of public land with endless trails adjoining the property. ALL OR PART: Seller will sell this 265 deeded ranch as one piece with all improvements as described or as two separate pieces. One piece would have the home, barn, horse corrals and main entrance with 175 deeded acres for $1,400,000. The other piece would have 90 deeded acres with an artesian spring for $360,000.