Colorado Cattle Ranch, Horse Property for Sale

Description

Colorado Ranch for Sale has excellent water rights, great hay production, very nice improvements

The Eagle View Ranch in Collbran, Colorado, is the luxury ranch where a full-time or absentee owner can enjoy a terrific Western Colorado lifestyle with a well-planned ranch property that is relatively easy to maintain and run. With a total of 138 acres, the ranch has a beautiful modern ranch home, excellent hay barn, corrals, large shop building, horse pasture, and over 100 acres of irrigated hayfields served by a #1 water right and an engineered pressurized irrigation system. Irrigation improvements include 3 sideroll sprinklers, 2 center pivot sprinklers, and 7 big gun sprinklers. The property averages about 350 tons a year in hay production.

Eagle View Ranch improvements--nice home, excellent outbuildings

This mountain ranch has a very nice set of improvements and there is very little deferred maintenance or upkeep on the property. The home is a very well-built Southwestern-style stucco home with a total of 3700 square feet, with 3-car garage and RV garage slot. The home is very spacious, with 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, sunroom, and outdoor natural gas grill on a covered patio. The property has 2 water wells and year-round stock water. It has a very nice deep pond stocked with chunky brook trout that average well over a pound. The grounds are neatly manicured and surrounded by 4-rail lodgepole fencing. The cross fencing on the ranch is new and excellent. Corrals are neatly organized and built of railroad ties and guardrail, with new squeeze chutes and automatic waterers. Outbuildings include a red-iron 75’x100’ hay barn, a newer 40’x80’ Quonset shop building with oversize door and concrete floor, and 3 loafing sheds. The hay barn has an 8100-KW solar system that provides ample electricity for the home place, although it is tied to the grid as well.

Ranch for sale is located in a mild climate zone for pleasant year-round climate

While some Colorado ranches experience severe weather and deep snow accumulations, this ranch is in a temperate climate zone that experiences mild weather. Of course there are snowstorms that come through, but all in all snow accumulations are light and the weather is beautifully temperate most of the year. The elevation of the property is high enough for cool summer breezes, but low enough that deep snowfall doesn't normally occur. 

Cattle ranch for sale is offered with grazing permits and cattle at additional pricing

The pricing with this listing is exclusively for the 138-acre home place and improvements. For the buyer seeking a complete cattle ranch, the seller can add assets to make a total package. Summer FS permit and Winter BLM permit for 100-421hd

Colorado ranch for sale has abundant recreational opportunities--hunting, fishing, skiing, horseback riding, ATV trails

Collbran, Colorado, is beautifully situated for mountain recreation. The area is well known for excellent big game hunting for elk and mule deer in GMU 421, and Powderhorn Ski Area, a small family ski area, is less than half an hour away. Less than an hour from Grand Junction, CO with shopping, dining, entertainment, and regional airport. The Grand Mesa, with its 500 square miles of National Forest lands and 300 lakes and reservoirs, is just to the south, where the ranch has a vast grazing permit. The fishing in these lakes can be outstanding, and Vega Reservoir, a large recreational lake, is very close by. Snowmobiling on the Grand Mesa is simply outstanding, with many miles of trails in a beautiful alpine setting.