Crawford Colorado mountain horse ranch for sale
New offering! This Colorado horse property has an incredible
combination of assets—stunning views, irrigated hay meadows, excellent horse
improvements, and easy access to trails and recreation. Located just 4 miles
south of Crawford, Colorado, the Antler Trail Ranch overlooks the reservoir at
the popular Crawford State Park. With a total of 52.5 acres, it has plenty of
room for horse pastures, hay production, and wildlife, and the horse
improvements are outstanding. The property features a 48×48 barndominium with a
comfortable 1-bedroom apartment, horse stalls, tack room, laundry room, hay
storage, and upstairs office. A separate newly built 30×40 shop building has
covered storage on each side, leaving ample room to store RV’s, UTV’s, horse
trailers, and tractors. For the buyer who wants to build their own luxury home,
a hilltop site has been cleared and prepared with installed water tap, power, and engineered septic system.
Excellent horse facilities on a Western Colorado
equine property for saleFor the discerning horse enthusiast, this property was built
with the equine lifestyle in mind. Fencing is built from 2 3/8” drill stem pipe
and it’s laid out with practical use in mind. Horse amenities include:
60-foot round pen with sand bottom
100 x 210-foot riding arena with sand bottom
2 16×16 indoor stalls with exterior runouts
Automatic waterers
3 exterior covered paddocks
24-foot gate with security code
52.5 total acres with approximately 20 irrigated
acres
Outstanding Colorado recreation property with horse
amenities—Crawford CO ranch for sale
For the serious recreation enthusiast, this property is hard
to beat. It’s less than a mile to the Crawford Reservoir, a 344-acre lake with
excellent fishing and boating. The West Elk Mountains form the backdrop views
to the east, offering vast expanses of Gunnison National Forest and BLM lands
for horseback riding, overnight pack trips, fly-fishing, and excellent mule
deer and elk hunting. The Gold Medal waters of the nearby Gunnison River flow
through the Black Canyon just a few miles south of the ranch, with terrific
fishing and whitewater rafting. Telluride, Crested Butte, and Aspen are each
about two hours distant for world-class skiing. Name your fun, whether it’s
golf, Nordic skiing, snowmobiling, kayaking, climbing, horseback riding,
hunting, 4-wheeling, or even wine tastings and concerts, and it’s close by this
Colorado horse ranch for sale.
Lifestyle amenities near the Antler Trail Ranch in
Crawford, Colorado
Though Crawford is a small town of only 500 people, it
offers a high quality of life. The Lazy J coffee shop makes a good cup of joe;
the Boardwalk offers good burgers and a lively karaoke night on Fridays.
Pioneer Days is a famous local celebration, and several good churches serve the
local community. There’s a bank, town hall, K-6 Montessori school, hardware
store and motel, convenience store and gas station, and several good local
contractors. The nearby town of Hotchkiss has an excellent medical clinic with
several doctors, as well as a good-sized grocery store, three banks, several
restaurants, and meat packing plant. North Fork High School is located in
Hotchkiss, where kids from Crawford, Paonia, and Hotchkiss go to school. The
North Fork Miners are known for excellent academics, as well as successes in
wrestling, football, volleyball, track, baseball, tennis, band, speech, and
golf. Delta and Montrose, about 45 minutes and an hour, respectively, have
hospitals, big box shopping, car dealers, and both Montrose and Grand Junction
have excellent regional airports with international connections not more than
an hour and a half distant. Internet service is terrific, with high-speed
connections of up to 6 GB available.
The North Fork Valley is known for agriculture, quality of
life, and a temperate climate
When seeking a quiet place in the country for the next
chapter of your life, the North Fork Valley is an excellent choice. The areas
at lower elevation are known for producing flavorful fruits and vegetables.
Paonia, Hotchkiss, and Cedaredge are famous for peaches, apples, apricots,
pears, plums, and cherries, as well as succulent vegetables. Crawford is a few
hundred feet higher in elevation, and the local agricultural focus shifts to
cattle ranches and hay farms. This horse property on Antler Trail is surrounded
by large ranches, horse farms, and country estates. The barns are at 6,700 feet
in elevation, which makes for cool summers but winters that are not overly cold
and snowy. A good portion of the property’s acreage is in pinyon-juniper
forest, which is a favored bedding habitat for mule deer and wild turkeys,
which are found year-round on the property.
