The wife has decided we need a mountain retreat, which means, “This is happening”. We’ve been looking at land on Zillow.
We’re thinking, but not wed to, flying into Denver to get there, so we’re looking at Park, Lake, Eagle, and Grand counties. Summit is a no go. For a 1/2 acre in Summit we can get 40 in the surrounding counties.
Here is the wish list (not going to call it “criterion”, because it’s probably not all possible).
Mature trees
Elevation with a flat spot for a cabin
Water (a wet creek with trout would be ultimate but that may be beyond the price range)
Good hunting
Adjacent to BLM or public forest
Near good fishing
No hoa or restrictions
Within driving distance from skiing (not important if access is only seasonal)
Not an insane distance off the hard road
We’re at $200k for as much as we can get with the mostest stuff we want. I’d do 5 acres if it was adjacent to 1000 public that was hard to get to...
Any help would be appreciated from advice about areas, to a referral to a good broker who knows steep dirt, to where I want to be for best elk or best fishing, really anything. We’re just researching now. We’ll probably go out that way this summer to scout.
We were looking at condos in Dillon/Silverthorn/Frisco. When she said she would rather by land and build a cabin it took all my powers to stay straight faced and not start dancing.
We’re thinking, but not wed to, flying into Denver to get there, so we’re looking at Park, Lake, Eagle, and Grand counties. Summit is a no go. For a 1/2 acre in Summit we can get 40 in the surrounding counties.
Here is the wish list (not going to call it “criterion”, because it’s probably not all possible).
Mature trees
Elevation with a flat spot for a cabin
Water (a wet creek with trout would be ultimate but that may be beyond the price range)
Good hunting
Adjacent to BLM or public forest
Near good fishing
No hoa or restrictions
Within driving distance from skiing (not important if access is only seasonal)
Not an insane distance off the hard road
We’re at $200k for as much as we can get with the mostest stuff we want. I’d do 5 acres if it was adjacent to 1000 public that was hard to get to...
Any help would be appreciated from advice about areas, to a referral to a good broker who knows steep dirt, to where I want to be for best elk or best fishing, really anything. We’re just researching now. We’ll probably go out that way this summer to scout.
We were looking at condos in Dillon/Silverthorn/Frisco. When she said she would rather by land and build a cabin it took all my powers to stay straight faced and not start dancing.
