Description
Antelope Creek Lodge - Guest Ranch, Resort, Sporting Clays, & Hunting Preserve Ranch
An exciting business opportunity has come on the market just northeast of Denver along I-76—a combination lodge, and event center on 20 acres.
The first offering is the Antelope Creek Lodge. A state-of-the-art wedding venue and event center on 20 acres. The lodge is completely furnished and will be sold as a “turn-key” opportunity. The lodge has an excellent reputation and solid bookings. Large events such as weddings and banquets typically book at rates between $16,000-$25,000.
- 12,000-square-foot event center on 20 acres
- 8 hotel suites
- 1 commercial kitchen, 1 residential kitchen, walk-in cooler
- Conference room & bridal dressing room
- Full commercial kitchen
- Campsite with 11 RV sites
- 4,000-square-foot ballroom
- Outside patio with furniture
- Patio with wedding podium
- Average 15-20 weddings/year
The main lodge and 20 acres is listed for sale for $2,950,000
The entire offering includes the Bijou’s Antelope Creek Sporting Clays & Hunting Preserve Ranch.
The property can be also bought together with an additional 663 acres known for outstanding sporting venues with excellent income potential. These two properties are somewhat complex, with several different facets. The combined two offering highlights include:
- Wedding venue
- Event center
- Sporting clays club
- Shooting preserve
- RV park
- Irrigated hay farm production
- Dryland rotational wheat crop production
- Extensive, quality outbuildings and improvements
- Quality 5,420-square-foot 5BR, 4BA ranch home
- 4 / 35-acre building sites with utilities
The Sporting Clays Club is located northeast of the event center and is considered one of the top Sporting Clay venues in the Western United States. The club has hosted events as large as 600 people and can routinely host events with up to 300 shooters. A typical charity shoot, for example, books at rates between $16,000-$25,000.
- Charity shoots typically host 300 shooters
- 84 machines
- 2 courses, sporting and super-sport
- 12 stations with 3 throwers per station
- 15-station course with 2 throwers per station
- 5-stand next to the lodge
- 5 practice stations next to the lodge
- $500,000 annual gross income on sporting clays
- Colorado Upland pheasant/chukar bird hunting preserve.
- Pheasant hunting is a big draw for shooters ranging from casual to hard-core with their level of interest, and Denver provides a huge population of sportsmen looking for a venue. Bijou’s Antelope Creek Upland Bird Preserve is artistically designed for a great upland bird hunting experience. All told, the acreage has 23 miles of windbreaks and upland cover with wildlife corners designed by Pheasants Forever. The acreage features native grasses and excellent upland habitat to ensure a quality hunting experience, currently releasing 5,000-7,000 pheasants and chukar a year. In addition, the pheasant preserve property has 19 additional RV sites to host larger groups.
- The venue offers memberships including corporate and individual accounts. The property also has water assets, including a lake, that attract many mourning doves. September dove shoots attract up to 100 shooters with excellent results.
- 663 acres total
- 200-400 acres of habitat for controlled upland hunting
- Corporate accounts
- Release 5,000-7,000 pheasant & chukar per year
- 12 station European Pheasant Tower Shoot course
- 100 dove shooters
- 100,000 acres of prairie dog & coyote hunting
- $200,000-$300,000 annually, with up to $300,000 for regional NSCA shoots
- Longmeadow School/Club room historical site now has 16 RV sites
- The Front Range is moving east—the hotspot for new development in Colorado are towns like Wiggins Colorado!
Home Place on Antelope Creek Ranch & Hunting Club for sale, Wiggins, CO
If you’re wondering where owners or ranch managers should live, don’t worry, the property has an excellent base of operations with a nice home, large outbuildings, and quality improvements.
- 3348 square feet on the main level with 3 bedrooms, beautiful sun-room, and an office and owner’s suite addition. 100% all brick maintenance free home.
- 1,472 sf basement complete with 2 guest bedrooms, theater room and small wet bar area.
- 112' x 54' Morton Metal /building shop building in excellent condition
- 54' x 60' Morton Metal Building shop building in excellent condition
- 3-sided long building put up last year to provide protection for equipment
- Oversized 2-car detached garage
- 2 car attached garage and oversized 2-car detached Morton Metal Building garage.
- 4 / 35-acre building sites
Farming operations on event center and pheasant hunting club for sale in Colorado
Antelope Creek has not forgotten its farming roots. The property includes a 100-acre plot planted with an excellent irrigated stand of orchard and brome grasses hay, in addition to other parcels with rotational winter wheat acres.
- 100 acres under pivot
- 80-100 +/- acres currently in production with winter wheat.
- 50 bushel per acre yield average
- $61,600 gross income
- $21,000 additional farm income
RV Spots & Campsite Locations
Another source of potential income on the Antelope Creek properties is the RV campsite operation. Currently operated to offer additional housing options to guests attending events at the ranch, the sites have 30-amp and 50-amp connections. These sites could be operated on a year-round or at least a seasonal basis to provide additional income to the venue.
- 11 sites with 20 acres & event center
- 16 sites with Longmeadow Club Room
- $55-65 a night
- 30 amp & 50 amp power
- Available for people coming to their events
Proximity to Denver and Development
For a long time, it seemed that 30 miles east of Denver was a long way out east. With the explosive growth happening on the Front Range, now it doesn’t seem that far at all anymore. Located 7 miles south of I-76 Exit 66A on Hwy 52, the Bijou’s Antelope Creek Ranch shooting preserve and Antelope Ranch Event Center is ideally situated to capture future growth. Large developments are planned, including a huge 6,500-acre inland port called Port Colorado and the Colorado Air & Space Port, the Aurora Campus for Renewable Energy, and the Rocky Mountain Rail Park, all of which are located just 30 miles south of this property. As well, several thousand housing units are planned in Bennett, a few miles east of those huge developments.
A new development in Wiggins, the Rodeo Dunes golf course project, is slated for 500 higher-end luxury homes. Other developments are planned for the area, which is one of the fastest-growing locations in Colorado. Such development will provide an even greater source of business for Antelope Creek and its offerings.
For sale as a combined offering at $6,576,000.00
Property is Co-Listed with John Kadavy, the Kadavy Group, Keller Williams Preferred Realty
970-396-4303
jkadavy46@gmail.com
John Kadavy, the Kadavy Group
970-396-4304
