(private lake, pond, creek) Home For Sale in Pagosa Springs $5,900,000

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, C: , mark, : ?Imagine a +/- 320 acre hidden and secluded valley ranch, smothered in elk almost every evening, harboring 3 access points into the 1.8 million acre San Juan National Forest. Lone Tree Ranch is less than 5 miles from downtown Pagosa Springs CO, with 5 spring-fed ponds stair-stepping across the meadows along the cottonwoodsplimented by a +-4200 sq. ft. custom ranch house with 5 bedrooms, 4 full baths and 2 half baths. The recently remodeled ranch home has a gourmet kitchen and a custom deck large enough to hold a wedding, with great views of the San Juan Mountains! Location, Location, LocationThe incredibly secluded Lone Tree Ranch, Pagosa Springs, Colorado just might be the one for you! Totally hidden from the world, the ranch is less than 10 minutes to Pagosa Springs, a town recently selected as one of the top 2 small towns in America by Outside Magazine, hosting the world's deepest natural hot springs, +/- 25 restaurants, Walmart, a new hospital, G5 capable municipal airport and 30 minutes from Wolf Creek Pass ski mountain. Lone Tree Ranch's +/- 320 acres within 5 miles of a small mountain paradise town in the Southern Colorado Rockies is almost impossible to find. Lone Tree Ranch is not encumbered by an HOA or conservation easements and has its own well, along with shares of water rights irrigating 90 acres, with both hay and grazing income, which allows for agricultural status and very low taxes. Recreation Historically, the Lone Tree Ranch has been a family and friends summer recreational retreat, leading to a fall hunting paradise, bridging into the family's winter wonderland of snow skiing and snowmobile sledding for holiday getaways. Less than 2 miles from the Lone Tree Ranch is Echo Canyon State Park Reservoir, offering boating, kayaking and great fishing for Channel catfish, Large Mouth bass, Bluegill, Yellow Perch and stocked with trout seasonally. Hunting The ranch qualifies for one landowner buck mule deer tag annually and is located in BGU 77/78 with over-the-counter elk tags for 2nd 3rd seasons. Family members and guests have harvested numerous elk and mule deer on the ranch and the ranch tags also allow hunting in the nearby National Forest. Could you handle watching Rocky Mountain elk feeding rutting in your pastures, Merriam turkeys gobbling in the spring, mule deer raising their fawns, and mallards honkers raising their broods on the ponds? What about catching that morning hatch with your fly rod, hitting all 5 spring-fed ponds on the ranch all within 5 miles of over 25 restaurants? The Home+/-4380 sq. ft. of stone and timber frame craftsmanship, 5 bedrooms, 4 full bathrooms + 2 half baths. Custom wood working furniture compliments every room with cathedral ceilings throughout the kitchen, nooks, living area, den and barpletely updated with an incredible granite stainless gourmet kitchen, large walk-in pantry, a huge double farmhouse sink below a massive window with a view of the ranch. A custom breakfast table compliments the huge granite island and the breakfast nook, with three side windows that allow just the perfect amount of ambient light with your morning coffee while overlooking your very own private valley..... From the breakfast nook you can enter both the kitchen and a large great room complete with one of four fireplaces in the home, then step out to the +/- 35' x 45' custom deck overlooking the ponds, valley and large enough to host a small wedding. All 5 bedrooms, including the primary, are on the main floor with easy access for all family members. The finished walk-out basement and 2 car garage has a game room, fireplace, additional storage and could possibly be a 6th bedroom or caretaker apartment. Three gas fireplaces and one wood fireplace complement the forced air furnace that heats the home.