The Mountain View is a beautifully finished 4,780± square-foot log home perched high on 35± acres just minutes from La Veta, Colorado. Featuring stunning views of the Spanish Peaks and prominent dike walls, the quality workmanship of this home makes it locally known as a special property.
The Mountain View lies in the gated Raspberry Mountain Ranch subdivision off Colorado Highway 12, the state-designated Scenic Highway of Legends. The elevation of 7,900± feet tends to have a great mix of milder winters and cooler summers. Views from almost every room in the house are dramatic and offer an angle of view seen by only a few lucky souls. The spacious home has four bedrooms but could be expanded to five or six. There are three bathrooms, including the well-appointed primary ensuite bath that, with the bedroom, enjoys its own floor of the house. A central gathering room gas fireplace compliments the study’s wood-burning kiva-style fireplace. The log exterior has recently been restored and re-chinked. The deck has been replaced with a maintenance-free synthetic surface. Previous owners have had horses. Though there are no existing equestrian facilities, it is permitted. Elk, mule deer, and various wildlife are frequent visitors to the property.
One of the most outstanding features of the area is its breathtaking scenery, with stunning mountain vistas, Cuharas River, creeks, and abundant wildlife. This environment provides ample opportunities for hiking, camping, fishing, skiing, and other outdoor activities, making it an excellent destination for nature lovers and outdoor enthusiasts. Just a short drive up the road, Cuchara Mountain Park offers limited skiing opportunities in the winter months.
Moreover, La Veta is a vibrant community that values the arts, history, and local traditions. Its downtown area is home to art galleries, restaurants, live music venues, and boutiques. Various cultural events and festivals occur throughout the year, including the Celtic Festival, Oktoberfest, and July 4th Art in the Park.
The people in this area are friendly and welcoming and honor the town’s heritage, as seen at the Francisco Fort Museum. Mountain people embrace a laid-back and relaxed lifestyle; La Veta is no exception, with a strong sense of community and camaraderie.
Special properties deserve an exceptional land brokerage company like Fay Ranches. Our team has the knowledge, proven record of success, and a deep appreciation for the land and its traditions. We know how to market your unique property to the right audience. We invite you to learn more about our approach. Please call us at 800-238-8616 or click on the link below for more information.
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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.
In Colorado, this ranch offers acres of prime grassland featuring power, two wells at 15 GPM, and vestiges of old buildings. With Class 4 sandy loam soils, it’s ideal for grazing and includes 315.38± acres in CRP, yielding $6,778 annually until 2031. A perfect EQIP and Grasslands CRP candidate, it offers income and grazing improvements. The ranch affords privacy, year-round access, and breathtaking views from the Spanish Peaks to Pikes Peak, presenting a rare opportunity to establish a home.
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.
This Colorado property and business is a great stepping stone to allow the owner to generate enough income to expand their operation in additional directions. Water rights allow opportunities for pasturing cattle or growing crops. This is a wonderful facility to utilize for trading cattle and earning steady cash flow from the yardage charged for feeding customers’ cattle. The home allows someone to live on-site, provide housing for a manager, or earn additional rental income from the property.
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.
This ranch in Colorado offers the perfect opportunity to buy a spectacular building and finish it with the details you desire. The water well, septic, power, and propane are already in place. The building plans are available to the buyer to help make the completion of the project a bit smoother as they make their dreams come true. Spectacular mountain views, stunning sunsets that truly paint the sky, grassy meadows, and a four-season climate make this a fantastic location for year-round living.
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.
North Fork River Ranch in Colorado represents a first-time offering and is one of the most diverse ranches in this size and class on today’s market, including agriculture and recreational revenue potential. It includes 2,236± BLM leased acres and over three miles of the North Fork of the North Platte River. The ranch is in close proximity to Steamboat Springs, within an hour’s drive, and offers significant recreational opportunities onsite and in the surrounding North Park area.
The Colorado ranch boasts approximately 0.4 miles of both sides of the West Fork of the Dolores River, with exceptional trout fishing for browns and rainbows. Privacy yet convenient access is a hallmark of this property. Paved publicly maintained roads to the ranch driveway allow for year-round use of the property. The log home is amongst an enticing grove of trees near the river. A riding arena, oversized 3-car detached garage, and custom tack room round out the improvements.
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.
