12300 County Rd 20, Alamosa, Colorado

Description

Welcome to the "Diamond Quarter Circle Ranch" located in the beautiful San Luis Valley in Manassa CO. This well cared for 433 +/- acre 3rd generation ranch that directly borders an additional 300K acres of BLM land is now for sale for the first time. Every so often an opportunity comes your way and this ranch is one of those rare opportunities. The ranch is a working ranch producing 900 +/- TONS of some of the best hay in Colorado. There is 2 miles (both sides) of the San Antonio river flowing right through the ranch. The river has allowed huge groves of big tall beautiful cottonwood trees with all their spectacular colors in the fall and fantastic shade for your livestock. The San Antonio is a tributary of the Conejos River offering super fun fishing for rainbow and brown trout right on the ranch. The ranch is a recreational paradise offering both mule deer and elk hunting, and the river provides excellent waterfowl hunting as the ranch sits right in a fly way. The ranch also does qualify for landowner tag (mule deer always check regs). The Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife has historically issued the San Luis Valley landowners big game (deer & elk) tags on a very liberal, almost unlimited basis.  Along with income from cattle, the ranch will produce 900 +/- tons of some of the most beautiful hay in the state (an alfalfa grass mix). 60K +/- income from the hay and cattle lease in Nov and Dec. There are incredible SR water rights for the ranch that will be protected forever by the well thought through CE that are being conveyed with the sale. There is also a well for irrigation that has been left out of the CE that pumps a staggering 2500 gallons per minute. This ranch has more water than you can even use, and with what is happening to water in Colorado this is a TREMENDOUS benefit and worth its weight in Gold. The large ranch style house boasts 4668 sq. ft. under the roof with 6 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms, updated kitchen, a formal dining room for the whole family to enjoy, plus 2 living rooms, 3 fire places (one in the master bedroom) There is a large 3 car garage all with their own doors for all your toys and vehicles...Ample room to park literally whatever you want. Next to the house is a riding arena, round pen and loafing shed for your horses and shelter. Lastly the ranch has a conservation easement created by Colorado Open Lands that was placed on the ranch for primarily protecting all the incredible water rights FOREVER (water is absolute GOLD) while secondarily protecting this historic legacy and the tremendous riverfront wildlife habitat for generations to come, also the CE allows for extremely low taxes. The easement was carefully thought through, leaving the well not part of the easement, that way you could lease out your water and still use the well for your hay crops. There is also a second building envelope for building a second home and then a third envelope for an agricultural building. So if you're looking for that generational ranch that has horseback riding, mule deer, elk, and waterfowl hunting, with fantastic fishing, and bordering 300K acres of BLM land and income producing right out your front door, this is now that opportunity to do so.