79682 Antler Trl, Crawford, CO 81415

Equine property! Horse ranch for sale near Crawford, Colorado 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 48x48 barndominium with a comfortable 1-bedroom apartment, horse stalls, tack room, laundry room, hay storage, and upstairs office. A separate newly built 30x40 shop building has 12x40 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. Outstanding horse facilities on a Western Colorado equine property for sale For 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 16x16 indoor stalls with exterior runouts Automatic waterers 3 exterior covered stalls 24-foot gate with security code 52.5 total acres with approximately 20 irrigated acres Colorado horse property for sale has outstanding recreation opportunities 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, and there are hundreds of miles of public trails. 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. Relaxed country lifestyle at the Antler Trail Ranch, Crawford, CO 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. Agriculture, quality of life, and a temperate climate--Colorado's North Fork Valley 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.