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Ranch Property |
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In addition to the ranch's tree-covered slopes,
its grassy meadows with ponds and a sub-irrigated
field allow support of up to 160 pairs of cows
year round. The property is excellent for horses
as well. All of the perimeter fencing is good
with miles more of good cross fencing. Cattle
have been run on this ranch since before 1885.
Unpaved ranch roads allow easy access throughout the pastures.
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| Spectacular Scenery |
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Ten- and eleven-thousand-foot mountains surround the ranch, with
a 9,800-foot peak on the ranch itself. Views are genuinely breathtaking,
with one vista having a span of over eighty-five miles from north
to south, including fifty miles of the snow-capped Continental Divide
and, to the south, the beautiful Sangre de Cristo range.
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| Colorado High Country |
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Spectacular building sites abound among
bristlecone, Douglas fir and Ponderosa pines.
Highway 9 runs through the ranch for easy
year-round access, yet this land's high-country
feeling remains intact. All construction in this
area is electrified by solar. Just a short
distance into the Pike National Forest you can
find the origins of Currant Creek, which flows
southward through the property into the Arkansas
River and gives its name to the pass on the
ranch. Wildlife includes elk, mule deer, antelope and bear on the property.
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| Historic Interest |
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Indians, fur trappers, mountain men and prospectors
all used the Currant Creek Pass in their travels from South
Park down to the Arkansas River basin. In 1844, Lieutenant John C.
Fremont and his guide, Kit Carson, traveled through the ranch on their
way back from surveying California. The views they encountered a century
and a half ago remain unspoiled for you to enjoy today.
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| Location |
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Aspen Creek Ranch is centrally located: only
70 miles from both Interstate 25 at Pueblo and Interstate 70 at Frisco.
You can easily get to this ranch year-round from east, west, north
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| Year-Round Access |
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State Highway 9 divides the Ranch's east pasture from
its west. This excellent paved road provides year-round, maintained
access to the ranch and yet, because of its location and its light
traffic, does not detract at all from the ranch's serenity. The ranch's
main gate on Highway 9 is only forty minutes from Cañon City
and only also about forty minutes from a beautiful view of the world-famous
Royal Gorge and its historic suspension bridge. A fifteen minute trip
over a back road brings you to Spinney Mountain and Elevenmile Canyon
reservoirs and the Gold medallion trout waters of the South Platte.
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| Price |
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| All tracts have Pike National Forest boundary. |
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| 80 acres: | $350,000 | west of Highway 9 with a spring |
| 2040 acre southern ranch: | $6,000,000 | OR by parcel as follows (Each parcel has one or more ponds and one or more springs): |
| 160 acres: | $700,000 | east of Highway 9 |
| 263 acres: | $1,100,000 | east of Highway 9 |
| 1,617 acres: | $5,000,000 | west of Highway 9 with two creeks, two-story restored historic house, barns, steel corrals, two log cabins, 10,000 acre Pike National Forest Grazing Permit and 640 acre state lease |
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