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Colorado Ranch in Mesa County
*New configuration and price!* The Rafter H Ranch Mesa County, CO is the luxury ranch where a full-time or absentee owner can enjoy a terrific Western Colorado lifestyle with a well-planned ranch property that is relatively easy to maintain and run. With a total of 150+/- acres, the ranch has a beautiful modern ranch home, excellent hay barn, corrals, large shop building, horse pasture, and approximately 130 acres of irrigated hayfields served by a #1 water right and an engineered pressurized irrigation system. Irrigation improvements include 3 sideroll sprinklers, 2 center pivot sprinklers, and 7 big gun sprinklers. The property averages about 350 tons a year in hay production.
Improvements on the Rafter H Ranch— Ranch in Mesa County
This mountain ranch has a very nice set of improvements and there is very little deferred maintenance or upkeep on the property. The home is a very well-built Southwestern-style stucco home with a total of 5,880 square feet (3684 living area), which includes the 3-car garage and RV garage slot.with custom wet bar. The home is very spacious, with 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, sunroom, and outdoor natural gas grill on a covered patio.
The property has 2 water wells and year-round stock water. It has a very nice deep pond stocked with chunky brook trout that average well over a pound. The grounds are neatly manicured and surrounded by 4-rail lodgepole fencing. The cross fencing on the ranch is new and excellent. Corrals are neatly organized and built of railroad ties and guardrail, with new squeeze chutes and automatic waterers. Outbuildings include a red-iron 75’x100’ hay barn, a newer 40’x80’ Quonset shop building with oversize door and concrete floor, and 3 loafing sheds. The hay barn has an 8100-KW solar system that provides ample electricity for the home place, although it is tied to the grid as well.
Mild climate and beautiful weather at 6,200 feet in elevation on Colorado ranch for sale
While some Colorado ranches experience severe weather and deep snow accumulations, this ranch is in a temperate climate zone that experiences mild weather. Of course there are snowstorms that come through, but all in all snow accumulations are light and the weather is beautifully temperate most of the year. The elevation of the property is high enough for cool summer breezes, but low enough that deep snowfall doesn’t normally occur.
Ranch is also available with grazing permits and a complete set of equipment and cows
The pricing with this listing includes all the ranch real estate assets and grazing permits. For the buyer seeking a complete cattle ranch, the seller can add assets to make a total package. The ranch real estate and grazing permits is offered at $3,800,000
- 138-acre home place with custom home, 75×100 hay barn, shop building, excellent water rights
- 7%+/- interest in 160 acre inholding property on NF with line riders cabin
- 12,000-acre US Forest Service mountain summer grazing permit
- 38,000-acre BLM winter grazing permit in the Utah desert
- Grazing permits total approx 321 head
*Available for additional sale*. 106 acres with 100+/- head grazing permit, larger share of inholding property. The ranch has an excellent set of quality equipment, much of it either brand-new or with low mileage and excellent maintenance. A complete equipment list is available, but a short list includes tractors, balers, rotary mower, hay rake, tub grinders, portable corral system, portable loading chute, bale hauler, manure spreader, backhoe, bulldozer, 1999 Kenworth T-800, Wilson 48’ cattle trailer, 48’ step-deck trailer, F350 ranch truck, 2,000-gallon fuel tank, dump truck, and much more, as well as the following cattle herd, which can be purchased separately along with the equipment:
- 426 head of cattle, give or take, depending on seasonal losses
- 355 bred cows
- 52 replacement heifers
- 19 bulls