Colorado Gmu 521 Big Game Hunting

Land Description

Colorado GMU 521 Big Game Hunting Property and recreation land For Sale

Located in the West Elk mountain range just off of Colorado Highway 133 and tucked at the base of McClure Pass, this ranch is a premiere Colorado hunting, riverfront, and recreational property. Comprised of 793 deeded acres surrounded by the Ragged Mountains, this ranch offers world-class views, seclusion, exceptional access, great mule deer and elk hunting, spring-fed ponds, private land hunting tags, and a well-built cabin along the river all within an hour of three major Colorado valleys. With the elevation ranging from 7,000 feet in the river bottom to 7,700 feet at the highest point, this property has a very diverse terrain. Blanketed by grass meadows, sage brush, small ponds, quaking aspens, oak brush, and pine trees, the Memory Ranch is a perfect climate for wild game, cattle grazing, and cool summer temperatures. A year-round small trout stream flows through the northeast corner of the property.

Great centralized location less than an hour from three popular Colorado valleys-Aspen, Crested Butte, Paonia

The Memory ranch is in a great centralized location between three popular valleys in Colorado-the North Fork of the Gunnison, the Roaring Fork Valley, and Gunnison Valley. Less than 60 miles from Aspen, Colorado, high-country recreation is a short drive away Just 27 miles on Highway 133 to Paonia

42 miles over Kebler pass to Crested Butte

31 miles on Highway 133 over McClure Pass to Carbondale

60 miles on Highway 133 to Aspen

Short 1.5 hour drive to Eagle County Regional Airport.

Excellent year-round access to Colorado hunting property, recreation land, mountain land for sale

There is a gas pipeline that runs through the property, and in order for the property owner to grant an easement, he demanded a very good road, and he got one a $400,000 subdivision-quality road leads directly from the highway to the center of the property. The cabin next to the creek is accessed by a well-maintained county road that is plowed year-round, and it's a very short distance from the property driveway to Highway 133, which is a good paved year-round highway. However, the majority of the ranch is not visible from the highway, and it's very private and quiet.

Colorado mountain recreation property-skiing, hunting, horseback riding, ATV trails

No shortage of recreation can be found on and off of this property. Whether you're tackling Marble's Lead King Loop or Schofield Pass on a Jeep, running your boat on Paonia Reservoir just minutes away, mountain biking Crested Butte, enjoying wineries and bed and breakfasts in Paonia, attending the Jazz Aspen music festival, upland bird hunting in Hotchkiss, fly fishing Gunnison gold-medal waters, snowmobiling the ranch, or skiing at the nearby Aspen, Crested Butte, and Telluride ski resorts, it's all within striking distance from the Memory Ranch.

Colorado GMU 521 hunting property-over the counter tags for elk + landowner tags

Memory Ranch is located within Colorado Game Management Unit 521 within the West Elks Wilderness. 2017 harvest numbers reflect 279 bull elk, 240 cow elk, and 191 mule deer bucks harvested. This property is known for excellent mule deer hunting and very good elk hunting. Hunters who have leased the property, staying in the cabin below, have not hunted with superb technique, yet their harvest rate has still been 50. With bobcats, deer, elk, and other game in abundance on this property, it's a sportsman's retreat with great access.

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