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Country properties like this one come together over decades, not overnight: irrigated ground that's been farmed and watered right, a shop built to work in, a home designed for comfort rather than show, and a setting at the end of the road where the only traffic is your own.
The 30.85 acres sit at the end of a quiet country road on Rogers Mesa, surrounded by irrigated farm ground and open space. There's no through traffic and no crowding. You get the kind of privacy that lets horses settle, dogs roam and evenings stay quiet, while still being only minutes from town. The mesas and the West Elks frame the view in nearly every direction.
This place is ready for animals the day you arrive. Existing pens and sheds are already in place for horses, sheep, goats or pigs, so there's no first-season scramble to build corrals or shelter before you can turn anything out. Gated pipe irrigation covers the fields, making it straightforward to keep pasture green through the summer and rotate ground as needed.
For a horse owner, the combination is hard to beat: irrigated pasture, working pens, room to ride, a shop for tack and trailers, and a setting quiet enough that a young horse can learn without distraction.
Water is what makes ground like this worth owning. Irrigation comes from the Big Gulch Ditch, a one-quarter interest in the ditch per the deed, delivered through gated pipe across the fields. The acreage is classified as irrigated farm ground by the county and has been managed as such for years. Put up your own hay, run livestock on grass, lease the ground to a neighbor, or split the difference. The infrastructure supports whichever way you want to work it. A well serving neighboring lots is located on this property.
The home is a 2009 ranch-style build with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths and 1,766 heated square feet, all on one level with no steps inside or out. The floor plan is open and practical, with quality flooring throughout and an attached two-car garage.
Electric radiant in-floor heat warms the home evenly and silently — no ducts, no blowers, no dust moving around the house — and window A/C units cover the warm months. The metal roof and vinyl siding are built for low maintenance in Colorado weather. Rogers Mesa domestic water and a septic system serve the home. The step-free, single-level layout makes it fully accessible.
The 42' x 90' metal shop building is the kind of structure people build a whole property around. Inside are 3,780 square feet over a concrete floor, including a large insulated and finished section currently used as a saddle shop. That finished area is ready for any workshop use you can imagine: woodworking, mechanical work, leather or craft space, a home business, or a heated corner to work on projects through the winter. The remaining space handles equipment, trailers, hay and storage. A Black Hills natural gas line has been run to the building.
Hotchkiss calls itself Colorado's Friendliest Town, and it earns it. It's a small ranching and farming community in the North Fork Valley with a genuine main street, a good school system, a feed store, the Delta County Fairgrounds, a hardware store and the kind of neighbors who notice when your water's running long. Paonia and Delta are short drives, and the valley has become known statewide for its orchards, vineyards, organic farms and growing food and wine scene.
For anyone who wants the backcountry close by, this location is hard to improve on. Multiple public access points put you onto BLM ground within a short drive, and the roads climb from there up onto the Grand Mesa and Black Mesa, opening into the Grand Mesa National Forest and Gunnison National Forest.
That country offers elk and deer hunting in some of Colorado's most productive units, alpine lake fishing across the Grand Mesa's hundreds of lakes and reservoirs, trout water on the North Fork of the Gunnison, and miles of forest road for four-wheeling, side-by-sides and snowmobiles when the snow comes. Add hiking, mountain biking, camping and wildlife watching, and it becomes a property you can hunt from, ride from and explore from without ever loading up for a long haul.
Irrigated acreage, working livestock infrastructure, a shop this size and a low-maintenance single-level home rarely show up on one deed, let alone at the end of a quiet road with public land minutes away. Contact Jake Hubbell, ALC with United Country Colorado Brokers at 970-250-9396 to schedule a private showing or find out my property details.
