Horse Creek Ranch is a great little horse property that is ideally located just to the west of Colorado Springs up in the Front Range. The ranch is complete with home, pasture, live water, and all the necessary elements a horse property needs. To top it all off the ranch sits in one of the most beautiful quiet settings and provides tremendous views of the surrounding mountain ranges. Many that watch the Weather Channel television show “Prospectors” will recognize the area as part of the show was filmed just up the road. There are even quartz mines on the ranch if one has an interest in digging for gems.
The property has a well-maintained home on a block foundation with 2 additions (1 on crawl space with footing and the other on a slab) 2 car garage. The home is 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, and 2 Fisher wood-burning stoves with river rock. There are beautiful wood finishings throughout the home. Across the front is a beautiful deck upon which to sit and enjoy watching your horses graze in the pasture.
The ranch has plenty of room to store equipment and toys. There 3 barns on the property. One barn is approximately 15 feet by 20 feet with 2 shed roof sides. Another barn is a metal round-top barn with a shed roof shop built onto the back with a Fisher stove to heat the shop. The 3rd barn is open on one side with stables and has a tack room and hay storage.
Up above the home on one of the high points is a rustic log-sided cabin that offers tremendous views of the Sangre de Cristos as well as the Collegiate Peak Range. It would be a perfect place to fix into the dog house to banish your spouse to or maybe even the in-law’s little guest house.
Horse Creek Ranch is located about 30 minutes to the west of Woodland Park, Colorado
-Colorado Springs, Colorado – 1 hour
-Woodland Park, Colorado – 30 minutes
-Lake George, Colorado – 10 minutes
-Breckenridge, Colorado – 1hour 30 minutes
-Cripple Creek, Colorado – 40 minutes
Access to the ranch is provided by Horse Creek Circle which is a maintained dirt road. The ranch fronts Horse Creek Circle.
The ranch sits at around 8,700 feet in elevation with the lowest point being next to the Horse Creek CIrcle and progressing up to nearly over 8,800 feet in elevation. Vegetation consists of aspens, ponderosa pines, firs, and spruces as well as some lodgepole pines with some willows along the creek with meadows of mountain grasses.
The ranch is set up and used as a horse property complete will barns, stalls, and riding arena. There is also a chicken coop to keep your chickens, geese, or ducks and enough pasture to keep a cow or 2 or some goats.
The property has underground power and household well. There is also a spring and spring-fed creek on the property.
Owners are currently doing additional property improvements. The owners will also include much of the equipment and tools in the sale.
All units of measure and maps showing property boundaries are approximate. Buyer to verify to their own satisfaction.
This property is offered by John Hayter Inc, DBA Ranch Marketers. All information provided by Ranch Marketers or their sales representatives in connection with this property was acquired from sources deemed reliable and is believed to be accurate and reliable, however, we do not warrant its accuracy or completeness. Ranch Marketers recommends that every item of importance to the purchaser (i.e. water laws, mineral laws, zoning, land use regulations, state, federal and private permits) be independently verified by the purchaser and/or purchaser’s attorney.