McElmo Creek Guest Ranch, situated in the breathtaking landscape near Cortez, Colorado, is a unique retreat that seamlessly blends adventure, relaxation, and cultural exploration. This working guest ranch is set against the backdrop of the Canyon of the Ancients National Monument, a region renowned for its rich archaeological significance and stunning natural beauty.
Guests at the ranch can choose from a variety of accommodations, including charming cabins and a spacious lodge, all designed to provide a cozy and inviting atmosphere. Each thoughtfully decorated lodging option features rustic touches that reflect the region’s heritage while offering modern amenities for comfort.
The ranch serves as a gateway to a myriad of outdoor activities. Hiking and biking enthusiasts can explore numerous trails that wind through the monument, leading to ancient rock art, cliff dwellings, and breathtaking vistas. After a long hike, many guests will relax in the beautiful foilage of a nearby vineyard, sipping on a locally produced red, white, or rose!
In addition to outdoor pursuits, McElmo Creek Guest Ranch emphasizes sustainability and community engagement. The ranch hosts workshops and educational programs that delve into local ecology, archaeology, and traditional crafts, providing guests a deeper appreciation for the region.
Evenings can be spent around a crackling campfire, where stargazing becomes an enchanting experience, thanks to the minimal light pollution in the area. Guests are also encouraged to interact with the ranch’s animals.
The McElmo Creek Guest Ranch has been featured in numerous magazine articles and on film. The time has come for the Guest Ranch to find its next stewart. The current owners will continue to live nearby and are committed to helping the new owners successfully transition.
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This land supports various species, including mule deer, elk, pronghorn, bighorn sheep, coyotes, and mountain lions. It is a blend of grazing land and diverse wildlife habitat in southeastern Colorado. Cattle grazing and hunting leases with potential landowner tags enhance the land’s value. Adjacent to the Apishapa State Wildlife Area, it enriches hunting prospects. A solar-powered water well ensures sufficient water for livestock and wildlife amid rugged canyons and native grasslands.
Rimrock Canyon Ranch offers ultimate solitude with modern amenities on 40± deeded acres and surrounded by 60± acres of BLM posessory interest land. It features Corral Creek, a fishing pond, access to the Colorado River, and spectacular views. It includes a main house, guest house, and bunkhouse, supplied by two wells and a spring. Wildlife like deer, elk, and black bears roam freely, and historical stagecoach route add to its charm. It’s a private retreat with stunning views and rich history.
Just west of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, the Doc Utterback Ranch spans 1,634± deeded acres and 640± leased acres. This mountain ranch features varied topography, from open meadows to forests and riparian zones along Tow & Little Tow Creeks. It offers rich big game hunting opportunities, with mule deer, elk, bear, and a recently spotted moose. Awarded for its habitat restoration, the ranch includes 9 springs and is fully fenced with big game-friendly wire, ideal for conservation-focused buyers.
Just north of Walsenburg, CO, the 2,150± deeded acre Vucetich Ranch offers stunning views of the Spanish Peaks, Sangre De Cristo, and Wet Mountain ranges. The rolling terrain features catch ponds and is accessible via a maintained gravel county road. The ranch includes 320± acres of fenced BLM land, enhancing livestock capacity. It’s fully fenced with a water line feeding stock tanks at two locations. The mild climate supports grazing, with antelope and occasional elk or mule deer.
With 80± acres of irrigated meadows & stunning vistas, North Star Ranch is perfect for equestrian pursuits, ranching, & enjoying the tranquility of southwestern Colorado, just 25 minutes west of Durango, Colorado. This picturesque 488± acre property features diverse terrain, providing a habitat for elk, deer, bear, & turkeys, ideal for outdoor enthusiasts. It includes a ranch house, a 3-bedroom caretaker’s casita, vintage barns, and a new timber-frame horse barn with luxurious accommodations.
Approaching the gated entrance, encounter a picturesque Eden-like setting featuring Smith Fork Creek, a fishing pond, a vineyard, equestrian facilities, and rustic cabins framed by a private canyon backdrop. Abundant wildlife thrives thanks to substantial water rights & a flexible conservation easement, offering additional building and subdivision potential. Canyon Ranch sprawls across 663± acres in central-western Colorado, with access to BLM trails near Black Canyon of Gunnison National Park.
This Colorado ranch boasts a 7,200± square foot custom luxury home with four bedroom suites and a dry sauna. It offers year-round access, a 4± acre lake, exceptional elk and mule deer hunting, water and mineral rights, and access to public lands. With grid-tied solar power, redundant systems like two boilers and septic systems, plus a 15kW backup generator, it ensures efficiency and reliability. This property combines luxury living with recreational opportunities only minutes from La Veta.
Chavara Ranch, just outside Salida’s city limits in Chaffee County, is poised as a premier investment and lifestyle opportunity in Colorado’s scenic heartland. It offers 178± acres of prime real estate. With 50± acres ready for development & 128± acres of irrigated land, the property boasts a meandering creek that attracts wildlife like mule deer & elk and stunning views of the Sawatch Mountains and Collegiate Peaks. Hay production and managed hunting ensure high-quality deer & elk populations.
The log home offers 3 beds, 3 baths, and 59± acres, with views of Greenhorn Mountain, the Wet Mountain Range, and Pikes Peak. With large spruce beams, Douglas fir, lodgepole pine, new carpeting, new kitchen appliances, and fresh paint, this Mountain State Log Homes design includes vaulted ceilings, a great room, office, theater room, and mud/laundry room. The unfinished basement features natural light. With a shop, 4 loafing sheds, and a pond, it’s an ideal location with paved road access.
Yampa Headwaters Ranch in Colorado features a unique Army Corps-permitted wetland mitigation bank with over 200 credits, two creeks, and multiple stocked ponds. The ranch includes a 100+ acre hay meadow, wetland areas, and diverse upland topography. It offers fishing in Brinker and Chimney Creeks, stocked ponds, and abundant waterfowl. Improvements include a custom barn with an apartment. Its wetland credits and recreational assets make it a unique investment opportunity.
The Mountain View is an exquisite 4,780 sq. ft. log home on 35± acres in La Veta, CO. Nestled within Raspberry Mountain Ranch and offering breathtaking views of the Spanish Peaks, this home is recognized for its superb craftsmanship. Positioned along the scenic Highway 12, it features four bedrooms, expandable to six, three bathrooms, and a variety of amenities, including a gas fireplace and a wood-burning kiva-style fireplace. Dramatic views are offered from almost every room in the house.
Experience the majestic Elk Valley Ranch under vast, deep blue skies and snow-capped peaks in Park County, Colorado. This 640± acre recreational haven offers hunting, fishing, skiing, and more. Home to elk, deer, and other wildlife, it adjoins BLM land for unmatched seclusion. Its features include sub-irrigated meadows, a stock well, and electricity. Easily accessible from Denver and near Breckenridge, the ranch is ideal for creating a private family retreat or a sportsman’s paradise.
The Riverside Retreat in Colorado, with 600+ feet of waterfront and extensive public land views, features a 5,256± square-foot renovated commercial building. Perfect for outdoor lovers, it suits various business plans or as a distinctive riverfront residence. Ideal for a family diner or fly fishing shop, it is positioned ideally for locals and tourists alike, drawing rafters, anglers, and adventurers. This spot offers both commercial opportunities and picturesque living.
This land for sale can be a business or family property, offering acres of Colorado mountain ranch land, income-generating improvements, a custom log barn, an arena, water rights, and good elk and mule deer hunting; it is almost impossible to find a comparable Colorado property at this price. This wonderful ranch is just an hour and a half from the Colorado Springs airport and 2.5 hours from Denver International Airport. The ranch is accessible year-round via paved roads to the ranch gate.
Enjoy peace of mind with a , grid-tied 10k solar array, geothermal greenhouse, water well with 1,500 gallons of storage, garage, workshop, 1,000-gallon propane storage tank, rain catchment system, woodburning heat stoves, and backup generator. Relax on one of the decks, patios, or in the hot tub of a turnkey furnished log home on a mesa high above the Colorado plains with stunning views of the Colorado Rockies, including the Spanish Peaks, Greenhorn Mountain, Sangre de Cristos, and Pikes Peak.
The farm, home, and seed store are iconic in Colorado. The farm is so coveted and celebrated that the Palmer Land Conservancy is including the property in a documentary they are producing about historic farms in the lower Arkansas River Valley. This historic and iconic property offers one of the best locations for a potential commercial business. With multiple types of zoning, plentiful water rights, and usable improvements, this property provides limitless opportunities for the next owner.
Zoe’s Ranch is established in a stunning setting in Colorado, with mature trees for privacy and shade and a seasonal creek. The views and the ranch’s terrain are hard to beat, with Greenhorn Mountain standing proudly to the west. The property has well-established landscaping, enhancing the beauty of the setting. The thoughtfully designed improvements are ideal for someone who wants a turn-key horse property and a well-appointed home that is already finished and ready to be enjoyed.
This Colorado ranch offers much: 1.5± miles of productive fish habitat-improved Lake Fork Creek, water rights, hunting opportunities, stunning views, easy access to world-class ski areas, the summer jaunt over Independence Pass to Aspen, and recreational opportunities. A golf course, fish hatchery, Turquoise Lake, and the Arkansas River are all neighbors. Whatever draws you to consider this ranch, it is not difficult to see all the possibilities and wonderful attributes that are Lake Fork Ranch.
IMN Heaven Ranch is aptly named if you value abundant wildlife, the privacy of a large acreage property, excellent big game hunting, productive water well, expansive, beautiful views, a seasonally mild climate, and easy year-round access in southern Colorado. Hunt elk and mule deer on your own property with private access to a large landlocked 2,000+ acre Bureau of Land Management (BLM) parcel. IMN Heaven remains a blank slate with water, electricity, and a workshop already in place.
In a part of Colorado where large acreages are rare, Ragged Mountain East Ranch offers the opportunity to own an expansive, minimally developed, diverse ranch with excellent hunting, water rights, and miles of national forest border. The improvements on the ranch are incredibly tasteful and well situated, yet position the buyer to build their own dream residence in one of many possible locations if he or she so desires. The big game hunting is exceptional, and the ranch has rarely been hunted.
This Colorado mountain ranch offers aspen groves, spruce, fir, and meadows with live water creeks up from Groundhog Reservoir, offering lush grass for grazing cattle. A thoughtful conservation easement protects the property and provides flexibility, allowing commercial hunting, grazing, timbering, and future homesites. The fishery on the ranch is waiting to be developed further. Elk hunting is stupendous, and world record line class rainbow trout have been caught in Groundhog Reservoir.
