Tranquility surrounds you in this 3,000 sqft custom Ackerman Log home located on 275 feet of pristine Crystal River frontage with private island. Soaring floor-to-ceiling windows capture the beauty of this incomparable location, including stunning 200-year-old "Elder Spruces" on the property and the famous Redstone Cliffs across the river with a rare view of the seasonal Three Sisters Waterfalls centered in the frame. The river music will calm you in the house and on the 460 sqft deck. This fenced 2.76-acre park-like property provides a quiet refuge for you and an abundance of wildlife. A 1,000 sqft custom stable with ample natural light offers many possibilities. A greenhouse awaits gardeners. You will live the Colorado dream in this unique setting.THE LAND*This 2.76 acre property is a rare find with 276 feet of pristine, secluded river frontage and private island along the Crystal River, one of Colorado's few remaining undammed, free-flowing, year-round rivers. The gentle river song can be heard from the house and all over the property. *Fenced and gated, this private, quiet land offers refuge to an abundance of wildlife year-round. Habitat includes mixed forest and meadows in addition to river frontage. A stroll on the property takes one through towering 200-year-old Spruces and all manner of smaller conifers and deciduous trees including Ponderosa Pine, Aspen and other foliage, interspersed with open, park-like meadows. The river frontage offers many secluded nooks as well as views downstream to Sopris Mountain, upstream toward Chair Mountain, and magnificent views of the Redstone Cliffs across the river. An island offers its own magic, beckoning and variously accessible depending on the season and river flow..*Despite the convenient close access to Hwy I33, the land is amazingly quiet, with road or neighbor noise a rarity.*The house was designed to capture the beauty of the land and welcome as much of it as possible inside.THE HOUSE*This 3,000 square-foot hand-crafted log home features the artistry of Skip Ackerman. Mature, standing-dead Engelmann Spruce trees averaging 15 inches in diameter were hand-stripped and shaped to nestle into one another without chinking. Each corner and archway is a work of art, and the hand-stripping retains the individual visual character each log developed over its lifetime and the decades it spent seasoning naturally as standing-dead timber.*Soaring windows in the great room face East, capturing morning sun and framing incomparable year-round views, with 200-year-old Spruces in the foreground and the Redstone Cliffs across the river. A quilt of Spruces, Aspen and Scrub Oak leads up to the cliffs, offering a subtle range of greens in summer, augmented with gold and rust in autumn, and a delicate frosting of snow on the trusty deep green Spruces that stay with us all winter. The cliffs themselves emit a warm red tone that changes throughout the day, and in late Spring the "Three Sisters" waterfalls cascade down the cliffs directly in the center of the view. A fringe of Spruces peek over the top of the cliffs from the far side year-round, silhouetted by the moon as it rises over the cliffs on countless magical nights.*A 10x30-foot deck extends out from the great room into the view and a step closer to the ever-changing river music that reaches into the house throughout the seasons. The orientation of the house keeps the deck surprisingly warm even in the colder seasons, with just enough overhang at ridge-poll height to provide shade in summer by afternoon. The deck wraps around to the south side where an intimate perch lined with deciduous trees offers shade in the summer and sun in the winter. A rich variety of birds frequent feeders year-round and planters on the deck stretch the season for flowers. Star gazing opportunities penetrate the great-room windows and are even more dazzling from the deck.*The great room is designed as an open living and dining space with abunda
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