3795 Us Hwy 50

Description

Few ranches that make it to the open market capture within their boundaries everything a buyer could ask for in a Western Colorado ranch. Twenty-five minutes east of Montrose, Colorado, stretching over two miles of highway frontage, Canyon View Ranch boasts breathtaking views of the 14,000-ft peaks of the legendary San Juan Mountains. Located at the headwaters of two live water streams, the ranch provides an abundant and diverse habitat. Mature aspens, spruce and ponderosa pines, alpine meadows, and riparian zones offer a habitat rich for all seasons. Abundant big game utilize the ranch for spring calving, summer and fall sanctuary, and wintering ground, with multiple bedding and feeding areas.Cut out by the headwaters of two tributaries that make their origins on this ranch are towering north-facing slopes covered in spruce, fir, and pine, leaving way to steep rock outcroppings that provide nesting for large birds of prey over lush riparian zones. The ranch rises and rolls as it climbs through irrigated meadows, large ponds, and sage with oak brush and pockets of aspens that hundreds of elk will feed in during the summer and fall. Large ponds fed by springs provide water to livestock as they feed on the new spring grasses before working their way up drainages to the hidden parts of the ranch. These multiple drainages make for traveling corridors and cover for elk, deer, bear, turkeys, and even moose as they come and go from bedding to feeding. The ranch is even home to some of the rarer big game species such as the Shiras Moose and Big Horn Sheep living among the canyon walls of the neighboring Black Canyon. This ranch will comfortably carry 70 plus AMUs for 6 months without compromising feed for the wildlife and rangeland resiliency. This practice is done on the ranch in a symbiotic relationship between livestock and the wildlife that call this ranch home. Towering above at 9,200 feet is the rim of the ranch that guards the true nature of this property. Fourteen hundred-plus acres of rolling alpine overlook another 700-plus acres of lower country, as the ranch dips before rising again over the deep and inspiring Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Weather travels up the canyon and hits its rim, dumping multiple feet of snow in the early spring. This snowpack makes for abundant grass and mature tall trees. From its multiple springs to its deep well that provides enough water for multiple dwellings, Canyon View Ranch is in full supply of precious water providing life and habitat. It is often difficult to access the mountains without long, curved gravel roads from amenities of town to the backcountry. Canyon View Ranch makes it too easy with all the amenities of Montrose just 25 minutes away, and a gas station, store, and pie shop just minutes down the highway from the ranch gate. Multiple roads give trucks and UTVs access across the ranch, making it fully functional and year-round accessible. These roads allow access to the back of the ranch on its north end as it climbs to overlook Morrow Point Reservoir with its deep waters and rock outcroppings, naturally landlocking public land behind the ranch. Outside of its borders are multiple recreation opportunities in every direction, as the ranch lies in one of the most underrated valleys in all of Colorado, strategically located between Montrose and Gunnison, near the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, as well as near Colorado's largest body of water, the Blue Mesa Reservoir, known for some of the largest lake trout and best ice fishing in the state. The ranch resides in the OTC unit of 64 and is surrounded by hunting units that are also OTC, but the ranch's southern border is the limited trophy unit of 66. Private and dreamy, this ranch is fully surveyed, fully fenced, and complete with cabins and utilities, presenting its owner with a large landholding development potential and/or, with its critical habitat, a vast conservation potential.