Live and work in the Historical town of Hartsel, Colorado. The Old Hartsel Hotel once stood at this site! It has since been replaced with 2 multi-use commercial buildings with immediate highway access off of Highway 24 and Hwy 9. Building one is 3,512 square feet with a convenience store and gift shop & gas station with estimated gross sales to be over 1.3 million. Those sales will include Colorado Lottery, Propane & DOW hunting and fishing licenses. This building has two separate entrances and can be divided. There are 4 gas pumps, a new water filtration system, updated bathrooms, new espresso coffee machine and a commercial public use well (that is very rare and very good).Building two is newly built, at 1584 square feet, and is currently in use as a liquor store. The first floor 2 offices have been previously rented at $1000/mo as office space. There are 4 offices, reception area and bathroom on the first floor. The second floor can be used as an office, multiple offices or an apartment as the plumbing has been plumbed. Separate entrance upstairs. Storage available. This is the only gas station, convenience store or liquor store between Lake George and Fairplay or Buena Vista so competition is nominal at best! Year round traffic with summer campers, travelers, rafters and fishermen to winter skiers, snowmobiles and ice fishermen. Hartsel sits at the corner of Highway 24 and Highway 9 out of Canon City. Buena Vista, the Whitewater Capitol of the World, is 32 miles, Breckenridge is 40 Miles and Colorado Springs is 68 miles. This IS the perfect location and geographically the center of the State of Colorado. The History of Hartsel is fascinating.Sam Hartsel arrived in South Park in 1860 thinking he’d be a miner. Instead, he realized there was more future (and money) in raising food for the miners. He started with a 160-acre homestead in 1862 but soon, his operations had expanded into a 10,000-acre ranch, trading post, sawmill, hotel, blacksmith shop, and commercial hot springs and bathhouse. The town of Hartsel was founded in 1880. It is geographically the center of the state and referred to as the Heart of Colorado. Elevation is 8,864 Feet.Hartsel’s enterprises boomed when the Colorado Midland Railway reached South Park from Colorado Springs. Called > this standard gauge railway could carry heavier loads than the narrow gauge Denver, South Park & Pacific that ran from Denver through Como. One way the Midland shipped hay and cattle, the other way came lots of tourists to fish, gather wildflowers and soak in Hartsel’s hot springs.In a large meadow southeast of Hartsel, on the Buckley Ranch, stand 12 vacant buildings looking much as they did in the 1930’s. First settled in 1874, the Buckley Ranch is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The property is now part of the Spinney Mountain State Wildlife Area and is managed for its’ Gold Medal trout fishing.Charles L. Hall established one of Colorado’s earliest industrial enterprises, The Colorado Salt Works, on his ranch west of Hartsel in 1862. By 1868, this business was producing 4,000 pounds of salt daily, much of it for use in processing gold ore. Hall’s son-in-law, Thomas McQuaid, built the Salt Works Ranch into one of Colorado’s largest cattle operations, comprising some 80,000 acres. Salt Works Ranch is still owned by descendants of Charles Hall and is also on the National Register of Historic Places.In 1995 Hartsel Springs Ranch Inc. purchased 26,000 acres in the Hartsel area. As part of their future development they plan to build a Hot Springs resort, a Golf Course, a Guest Ranch, and a Fishing Lodge and Cabins
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