875 HIGHWAY 300
LEADVILLE, CO 80461

• Valuable water rights and ag income • Exceptional trout fishing on 1.5± miles of Lake Fork Creek • Great neighbors: Mount Massive Golf Course, Colorado Outward Bound, Leadville National Fish Hatchery • Located in the heart of ski country: Copper Mountain, Vail, Beaver Creek, Ski Cooper • Easy year-round maintained access • Updated ranch house and cottage • Working ranch buildings, corrals, and historic homestead buildings • Mixture of pasture, forest, and creek bottomland • Excellent elk hunting with LPP or public draw GMU 48 • Stunning views of the highest peaks in Colorado and the Rocky Mountains • 5 minutes to the Leadville Airport. The core of the ranch is the valuable package of water rights. Seven irrigation ditches provide water, and Lake Fork Creek meanders for a mile and a half through the heart of the ranch. Recently, a significant stream restoration and fish habitat improvement project was implemented to improve trout fishing. Elk hunting or viewing is excellent as well.The stunning views from Lake Fork Ranch are dominated by the two highest peaks in the Rocky Mountains, Mount Elbert, and Mount Massive. The ranch is located virtually at the base of Mount Massive in the Upper Arkansas River Valley, surrounded by the Sawatch and Mosquito Mountain Ranges. The land is a combination of irrigated meadows, forest, and creek bottom and overlooks the Arkansas River a mile below Turquoise Lake Recreation Area.Improvements include a two-story, four bedroom refurbished ranch house, large hay barn, three-bay open garage, four-bay garage, large dairy barn, milk cabin cottage, repair shop, tack room, calving shed, horse sheds, corrals, 1880s vintage log cabin, and vintage log barn.

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