Three homes connected by stone paths, landscaped grounds and amazing views featuring swimming pool, campfire ring, BBQ picnic area, Pavillion, Horseshoe pit, sand volleyball court, horse corral and complete privacy.
Imagine stepping back into the days of the old west and into the home of a wealthy, railroad baron. This is the feeling you’ll get when you walk into the main Ranch House. Completed in 2003, architectural antique doors, spindle rails, cabinets, etc. were used to create the feeling of a 100-year-old home.
Features:
- Old West Saloon Bar and Great Room
- Dining Room seating 35 people
- Outdoor Kitchen area with BBQ, sink, small refrigerator and Covered Dining Porch
- Large Kitchen and Breakfast Room seating 10 people
- Billiard/Game Room, Bunk Room, Sauna, Spa, Workout Room
- 12 Bedrooms
- 8 Bathrooms plus 2 shower stall rooms
- Stable, Corral, Tack Room, Hay Shed
- Vegetable Garden
- Quad Garage with Laundry Room.
It doesn’t get more real than this. First built when the ranch was homesteaded in the late 1870’s, this log cabin was one of the first homes built in the valley. Although it has been added onto over the years, the original 1-room log cabin is still in tact and functions as the den, dining area and bar of this incredible cabin.
Features: Large Deck, Large Kitchen, 3 Bedrooms, 3 Bathrooms, 2 Sleeping Lofts and an Outdoor Screened Bedroom
Nestled along Carolina Gulch, this prairie Victorian features a large wrap-around porch with bent willow furniture, an antique outdoor bed, and a brick outdoor fireplace. Sit on the porch and visit with your friends and family while the kid’s play croquet on the cottage lawn
Features: 1200 square foot "Plantation-Style" covered porch, with outdoor fireplace, screened outdoor bedroom, croquet lawn, arbor, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 sleeping lofts, and a large state of the art kitchen.
1) An established “Family Reunion Guest Ranch” rental business during the summer months, doing private family reunion rentals for up to 45 people for a stay of anywhere between 3 and 10 nights.
2) The business, Ranch Retreats, LLC is part of this purchase offering and has been running successfully for 18 seasons, with a robust demand for summer bookings, based on 5 star reviews by past clients wanting to book, based on their prior experience. With more than 10,000 people having stayed at Red Rock Ranch over 18 years, the income potential can be as much or as little as a new buyer might want, based on opening calendar availability to suit the preference.
3. A typical three month summer rental season can yield $150,000 to $180,000 in rental revenue each year, while maintaining the property as a private residence for the other 9 months of the year.
Design and build a luxury home or ranch manager's home on a 10 acre buildable lot.
RANCH LAND: Both the 35 acre ranch estate and 10 acre buildable lot are within a 200 acre greenbelt of un-developable land that is under conservation easement, protecting it in perpetuity for agricultural and/or recreational use of any kind. This parcel is the perfect complement to the build-able lot and established homes and provides the wide open feel of the old west to the entire property as a whole.
- Each of the three homes has it's own residential well
- Water table is quite high (50' to 100' below ground level
- Court adjudicated agricultural well right can be re-drilled and put to use
- Two underground tributaries to the Arkansas River run under the property
- A natural spring fed pond sits slightly east of the grouping of the homes
- Unparalleled views of the Southern Colorado Rocky Mountains
- Uniquely positioned halfway (2.5 hr drive each) between Denver, CO and Taos, NM
- Historic property with mining and cattle ranching history dating to the 1870’s
- Historic structures (homestead log cabin and historic ore smelter)
- Three homes in an estate setting, built prior to home proximity restrictions.
- Deeded water rights for all three houses plus “adjudicated” agricultural well right.
- Family reunion summer rental income potential can yield 150k to 180k in 3 months
- Five star reviews on prior summer rental clients provides robust future demand
- Conservation easement protected open space in all directions from this property
- Ridgeline and view sightline protected from future homesites
- Density is 100 acres per residence rather than the zoning (5 acres per residence)
- “Replacement cost” appraised value would be considerably higher than sale price
- 10 acre residential lot for future managers home or custom home
- Separate entrance for future barn site near agricultural well drilling site
- Offered turnkey/ furnished including valuable antiques, bedding, appliances, etc
- Landscaped grounds with 6,000 gallon spare water storage
- “Western dream lifestyle” – own your own horses/ride on your own property.
The property looks west at the Sangre de Cristo range of the Rockies, in the beautiful Wet Mountain Valley, just off of the front-range in Colorado. It is 45 minutes to Lake Pueblo in the city of Pueblo, 45 minutes to Canon City, 1 hour 15 minutes to the Colorado Springs Airport with nonstop access to most major US cities, and only 2.5 hours from the Denver International Airport, and/or downtown Denver. No major mountain passes are utilized in accessing this part of the Colorado Rocky Mountains from Denver and the front-range.
Access to the wonderful heritage and vibe of New Mexico is easy, since the state capital and original capital of the northern province of “New Spain” (since 1598 A.D.) of Santa Fe is only four hours south on I-25, and Taos is only 2.5 hours south via state highways running through the towns of Ft Garland, and San Luis.
Locally, Red Rock Ranch sits with its driveway access on the paved State Highway 96, (No long trek’s on dirt roads to access your driveway), only 6 miles away from the full service town of Westcliffe. The town offers Grocery and Health Food Stores, Bakery, Butcher Shop, Hardware and Lumber, Restaurants, Churches, Coffee Houses, Theater, Bowling Alley and Family Fun Center, as well as every sort of recreational opportunity you might expect from a town that sits directly at the base of the Rocky Mountains.
Westcliffe is a quaint historic mining town and features its own “Silver West Airport/Butler Field, with a 1.5 mile paved runway, which is only a 20 minute drive to this “Red Rock Ranch Estate”, purchase offering in Custer County.
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To access the website that clients use to initiate bookings for Red Rock Ranch, click here: RanchRetreats.com