BTU Ranch Steamboat Steamboat Springs, CO $25,000,000 | 13,935± Acres
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BTU Ranch Steamboat Steamboat Springs, Colorado
$25,000,000 | 13,935± Acres
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WELCOME is covered in the green hue of an old growth You rise early and decide to take a walk aspen grove, the trunks gnarled from years before breakfast. It’s late May and the BTU of elk and mule deer rubbing their antlers. Ranch is bursting with life. You hike your At first glance, everything seems normal, and favorite ridge trail, enjoying the fragrance of then you realize the entire hillside seems to fresh spring growth and the subtle sounds of be moving. You lift the binoculars strapped newly minted aspen leaves rustling to your chest and realize there are hundreds overhead. You pause and take in the of elk slowly moving up the drainage, amazing view of the surrounding peaks of leisurely grazing. A cow elk prods her calf, a the Flat Tops Wilderness, spreading your young bull with fresh antler nubs drinks arms wide and taking in a deep breath of the from a stream. An hour has passed and you pure mountain air, studying the terrain for keep watching, thinking to yourself that this wildlife. The slope across the closest gulch must be what heaven is like.
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QUICK FACTS
The BTU Ranch is comprised of approximately 13,935 deeded acres all in one block. It is rare for this many deeded acres to be in one block and not ‘checkerboarded’ with state or BLM land. The entirety of the acreage is prime elk habitat.
There are 1,052± acres of dry land farming on the ranch which are leased to a neighbor.
In addition to the deeded ground, the ranch includes approximately 2,050 acres of BLM grazing lease land.
The ranch is contiguous with approximately 3,000 acres of BLM land.
The ranch is located 40± minutes from downtown Steamboat Springs, Colorado, one of the most authentic resort towns in the state with one of the west’s finest ski areas.
Yampa Valley Regional Airport, the commercial airport that services Steamboat Springs, is a short 15± minute drive from the ranch.
There is a resident elk herd of approximately 500 to 1,000 animals on the ranch, with a migratory herd of several thousand that transition through the ranch seasonally. These elk are part of the White River Elk Herd comprised of approximately 37,000 animals, which is recognized as the largest herd of elk in the world.
The BTU Ranch is also well known for its trophy mule deer and pronghorn antelope.
The rolling topography of the ranch is ideal habitat for both wildlife and humans. It is interlaced with single track trails and roads, making it ideal for hiking and mountain biking as well as 4x4 vehicles, ATV’s and snowmobiles.
There are excellent water resources on the ranch, including developed wells, springs, ponds and perennial streams.
The ranch has .2 miles of the East Fork of the Williams Fork River, an excellent fishery for smaller trout that rise eagerly to a dry fly.
Located within 15 minutes of the Yampa River, one of the finest trophy trout rivers in the west.
The ranch is not encumbered with a conservation easement but would be an excellent candidate for the future owner.
Elevation varies from 6,900’ to 7,900’ and receives 16 to 20 inches of precipitation per year.
The ranch would provide excellent summer grazing for approximately 500 head of livestock.
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Steamboat Springs, Colorado LOCATION
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS The BTU Ranch is located an approximate 40-minute drive from Steamboat Springs, Colorado (pop. 12,435). Steamboat is one of the most attractive small towns in the Western United States. Unlike many ski towns it is not dominated by the ski area, it is a vibrant community of year- round residents who care deeply for the “Boat” and have chosen to raise their family in this idyllic mountain paradise. The historic downtown sits astride the Yampa River which provides some of the best trophy trout fishing in the state.
The town boasts good schools, more than 60 bars and restaurants, museums, art galleries, the community hospital, festivals, rodeos, concerts, trail runs, marathons, and wonderful shopping. Although you won’t find a mall in Steamboat, you can shop at an eclectic array of quality stores, many of which are housed in 100-year-old buildings along Main Street.
You’ll also find mountain bike trails second to none, rivers you can fish, tube, kayak and play in, lakes that will take your breath away, golf courses to challenge every club in your bag, hiking trails with incredible views, and meadows of wildflowers that define summer in the Colorado mountains.
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Steamboat is removed enough from I-70 and the front range of Colorado that it is not, and likely will never become over-developed like other Colorado resort areas.
The ski area is world famous for its Champagne Powder© and great tree skiing. Situated at 6,732’ feet in elevation, 1,000 to 2,000 feet lower than other elite ski towns in Colorado. Even with the lower elevation, Steamboat Ski Resort still receives on average of 334 inches annually, plenty of snow to keep even the advanced skier happy. The lower elevation provides a milder climate with an abundance of sunshine.
The ski area has 165 named trails spread over 2,965 acres; 14% are classified as beginner level, 42% as intermediate, and 44% as advanced. It also contains the Mavericks Superpipe snowboard/ skiing superpipe which is one of the premier pipes in North America. Limited night skiing began with the 2013–14 season.
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AIRPORT The ranch is located a 15± minute drive from the Yampa Valley Regional Airport, which is the commercial airport that services Steamboat Springs. There are direct flights from Alaska, American, Delta, and United Airlines with different schedules for the summer and winter months. Currently the direct flights are to and from Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angles, Minneapolis, Newark, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington D.C.
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Glamping after a fun day at the ranch
A SUMMER DAY ON THE BTU RANCH It’s a beautiful July morning at the ranch, and the kids are chatting excitedly about the rodeo they went to last night in Steamboat. You can’t stop thinking about a beautiful bronze you spotted at the art walk. Everyone had fun. Now you feel far removed from the festivities in town as you sit outside with a cup of coffee and enjoy the view of the Flat Tops Wilderness from your Adirondack chair. Today, the adults will go on a six-mile horseback ride that weaves its way through groves of aspen along Temple Creek and returns on a ridge that provides views of the peaks of the Flat Tops and Mount Zirkel. The kids are headed off on a mountain bike ride that follows a two track to the northern boundary with a return on a single track. It’s a ride they did a month ago, and have been excited to do again. This evening you’ve planned a cookout with locally raised beef and vegetables followed by another relaxing evening around the fire. You’ve been at the ranch for a week and the kids have grown increasingly disinterested in their phones. You feel a closeness with your family that has grown each day as you share adventures and explore the ranch. You have so much to do and talk about.
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Horseback riding on the ranch
Excellent mountain biking on the ranch
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AN AUTUMN DAY ON THE BTU RANCH
It’s the third weekend in September and you’ve taken Friday off of work and pulled your son and daughter out of school so they can experience their first bow hunt for elk. You picked them up after school on Thursday, and they almost sprinted from the door of the school to the car. The flight to Steamboat was quick and the drive to the ranch from the airport only 15 minutes. Now you’re immersed in over 13,935 acres of pristine wilderness, and it’s all yours.
Last night, the bulls were bugling in every direction. You took a short hike to get a sense of where the elk were bedding down and then fell asleep to the sounds of the distant bugles of rutting elk. This morning you have a plan. You and the kids will hike uphill for 20 minutes in the dark to the ridge and then listen for bugles as the sun comes up.
The kids are excited and nervous, they’re in full camouflage, you’ve painted each other’s faces with camo paint, and it’s time to start walking. When you reach the ridge it’s still dark, elk are bugling all around at varying distances. The elk are in full rut and they are talking. You look at your kids as light gradually illuminates their faces, and they couldn’t be more excited and more focused. They have no idea what they’re about to experience. You can almost feel their hearts beating.
You discuss which bull to go after but it’s tough to tell which is closest. You give a cow call and a big bull let’s out a deafening bugle close by. Your kids turn and smile at you, their eyes wide with a mixture of fear and wonder. Your older child moves off quietly to the left and the other to the right and you slowly drift back about 50 yards and start working the bull with cow calls. He bugles again, and gets closer. He’s coming in.
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A WINTER DAY ON THE BTU RANCH
You’ve been skiing fluffy powder the past three days at Steamboat with the whole family. None of you had ever experienced powder like this before and at first everyone struggled in the deep snow. Over the past couple days, you’ve watched your kids slowly start to relax and move with the snow instead of against it. One by one they started linking powder turns until what had been hard work was becoming a fluid dance. Looking up through the trees, you see your family floating effortlessly with huge smiles and woops of excitement. They’ve figured out how to ski powder. Total joy.
After three days of powder skiing you’re all a bit tired so you decide to take a leisurely snowmobile ride around the ranch. You start out early and ride for five hours. The ranch is beautiful in the winter, and covered with elk. The roads on the ranch are perfect for snow machines, but you soon realize this is not a day off, just a workout for a different set of muscles. After a big dinner, everyone relaxes with a hot cocoa and reminisces about the fun and new adventures of the past days. By 9 pm, everyone is blissfully sleeping.
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RECREATION
HUNTING deeded acres are prime elk habitat with The big game hunting on the BTU Ranch is cover, food and water located in proximity to some of the finest available in the United each other, which means the animals utilize States with excellent elk, mule deer and the entire ranch and the topography allows pronghorn antelope populations. The owner the entirety of the ranch to be accessible to of the BTU ranch is allowed 19 applications hunters. This is important because it allows for Land Owner Tags for each species (elk, you to hunt a different area of the ranch on mule deer and pronghorn antelope) because any given day, so you’re hunting animals of its large deeded acreage. The ranch is in that haven’t been pressured. Elk are smart Colorado Game Management Unit 13, which and wary animals that sense the presence of is known as one of Colorado’s prime areas humans and begin to act differently after for quality elk and mule deer. In the 2016 they’ve been hunted for consecutive days. Colorado Hunting Guide, the state comments On a ranch of this size with the quality of on the mule deer hunting in HMU 13 - “Hot habitat from boundary to boundary, a careful spots are located north of Hayden.” Which is hunter and his/her friends could spend where the BTU Ranch is located. This is an many days during the season hunting area well known for trophy mule deer. unpressured animals. https://cpw.state.co.us/Documents/ Hunting/BigGame/HuntGuides/ NWHuntGuide.pdf Additionally, the BTU Ranch is surrounded by mostly large private ranches and very little public land, meaning the elk are not The BTU Ranch is in the White River Elk Herd being pressured by the public and are less range, which consists of approximately likely to be ‘call shy’. All of this adds up to 37,000 animals and is notable for being the elk that like to talk during the rut and are largest herd of elk in the world. The ranch more likely to respond to a call, which is has a resident elk herd of 500 to 1000 particularly important for bow hunters. animals and thousands of migratory elk which transition through the ranch seasonally. After spending a few hours here, an experienced big game hunter will understand the quality of the hunting experience The entirety of the approximate 13,935 available on the BTU Ranch.
There is an excellent mule deer population on the ranch
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The BTU Ranch has an approximate 500-1,000 resident elk herd in addition to migratory elk.
With approximately 37,000 elk. The White River Herd is the largest elk herd in the world. The BTU Ranch is located in the midst of their range.
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RECREATION FISHING waters. The section The BTU Ranch has closest to the ranch is approximately .20 miles a fantastic, large of frontage on the East western river fishery Fork of the Williams Fork with some very large River. This is a beautiful trout. Most of the small stream fishery full fishing on this stretch of riffle, run, pool is done from a drift sequences and some busy boat. The stretch pocket water. The trout running right through are generally small, but “I had a day fly fishing the Yampa Steamboat has plenty of eager to rise to a fly. River near the BTU Ranch that public access and some remains one of the finest days of of the largest trout Just 15 minutes from the fishing I’ve ever had.” photos are taken here, ranch is the famous Yampa - Greg Fay many of them within River, one of Colorado’s sight of the bike path! most prolific trophy trout
CONSERVATION/STEWARDSHIP
Each agent and staff member at Fay Ranches has a love of the land and a desire to see it remain as productive agricultural ground as well as quality fish and wildlife habitat. Through promoting the use of thoughtful land stewardship, Fay Ranches has guided owners toward a legacy of conserving wide open spaces, enhancing and creating fisheries and wildlife habitat and implementing sustainable agricultural operations. Fay Ranches is proud to say that since our work began in 1992, the landscape on which we work has been significantly enhanced by the conservation ethic and land use practices of our clients. The BTU Ranch at Steamboat is not encumbered with a conservation easement but would be an excellent candidate for the future owner. www.fayranches.com | 1.800.238.8616 | www.republicranches.com - 16 -
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SUMMARY
The BTU Ranch is a four-season family ranch uniquely capable of providing fun and adventure for kids of all ages. Its proximity to Steamboat Springs provides incredible skiing in the winter and wonderful summer activities including shopping, golf, fly fishing, hiking, mountain biking and riding horses. The big game hunting is some of the best available in the United States. At $1,794/acre, with its proximity to Steamboat, no conservation easement, amazing views in every direction and endless recreational opportunities the BTU Ranch at Steamboat Springs is one of the finest large ranch opportunities on the market today.
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PRICE $25,000,000
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CONTACT This is an exclusive listing with Fay Ranches, Inc. Please call Greg Fay at (800) 238-8616 to schedule a showing. An agent from Fay Ranches, Inc must be present at all showings. To view other fly fishing properties and sporting ranches that we have listed, please visit our web pages at www.fayranches.com and www.republicranches.com.
NOTICE Offer is subject to errors, omissions, prior sale, change or withdrawal without notice, and approval of purchase by owner. Information regarding land classification, carrying capacities, maps, etc., is intended only as a general guideline and has been provided by the owners and other sources deemed reliable, but the accuracy cannot be guaranteed. Prospective purchasers are encouraged to research the information to their own satisfaction.
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