Yampa Headwaters Ranch - Routt County, Yampa, CO
Yampa Headwaters Ranch - Routt County, Yampa, CO
Yampa Headwaters Ranch, Routt County, Colorado, consists of 610± acres with two live creeks and multiple stocked ponds. Very unique for the ranch marketplace, highlighted by an Army Corps of Engineers-permitted wetland mitigation bank with over 200 wetland credits available to serve wetland impacts and growth in Northwest Colorado.
Perfectly located between Steamboat Springs and the Vail Valley, this ranch’s diverse landscape includes a 100+ acre irrigated hay meadow, over 200 acres of wetland and riparian bordering Brinker and Chimney Creeks, and upland acreage of rolling sagebrush topography. A fly fisherman’s dream, Brinker and Chimney Creeks, headwaters of the Yampa River, meander through the ranch for over 2.5 miles and provide opportunities for rainbow and brown trout species. Two of the largest stocked ponds, Big Pond and Acord Pond, are fed by live water and stocked with rainbow, and the occasional brown trout has migrated in. Due to the live water and extensive riparian acreage, Yampa Headwaters Ranch is a year-round destination for waterfowl, including mallards, teal, wood duck, and geese, and in recent years, two pairs of sandhill cranes have nested and raised their young on the ranch. The ranch is home to mule deer, antelope, and the occasional elk herd migrating through.
Ranch headquarters with views of the Flattops Wilderness includes a custom barn with a two-bedroom, 1.5-bath apartment, 3’ x 14’ bay doors, and a walk-in cooler with a game-cleaning area ready for your big game pursuits. Multiple postcard locations exist for future building sites, including a secluded cabin at Look Pond.
Yampa Headwaters Ranch’s wetland mitigation bank was permitted in 2003 and has transferred wetland credits throughout Northwest Colorado for unavoidable wetland impacts from Vail and Beaver Creek to Steamboat Springs and west to Craig and Meeker. Yampa Headwaters Ranch benefits from the traditional ag economics of cattle grazing and hay production. However, the wetland mitigation bank future credit sales brands this ranch impossible to reproduce in today’s ranch market and worth your consideration.
In today’s ranch market, it would be a tall order to find comparable acreage with equivalent assets, recreational attributes, trout habitat, investment grade, waters rights portfolio, improvements, and proximity to world-class resort areas.
The listing broker is the owner of the selling entity.
PROPERTY FACTS:
- Never before on the market, 610± acres that includes two live water creeks
- Ideally located between Steamboat Springs and Vail
- Headwaters to the Yampa River
- Brinker and Chimney Creek and multiple stocked ponds
- Approved Army Corps Engineers and EPA Wetland Mitigation Bank
- Custom barn with two-bedroom apartment
- Strong portfolio of senior water rights
- Additional offsite reservoir water rights and onsite storage rights
- Borders BLM public lands
- Adjacent to Flattops Wilderness Area
- Year-round access to State Highway 131
- Great long term investment potential
- Learn more about this property, its investment potential and information about the area in the Property Brochure.
THIS RANCH IS CO-MARKETED WITH FAY RANCHES.
Fay Ranches has been providing brokerage and advisory services for the acquisition and sale of significant land assets since 1992. While not forgetting our roots as a sporting ranch company, we have expanded our focus and expertise to include the finest farms, ranches, timberland, plantations and vineyards from coast to coast. Over the last two decades, we have built a network of relationships including our Strategic Alliance with Texas-based Republic Ranches. We continue to lead the industry with our consistent ability to source land opportunities for investors and use our unrivaled reach and marketing platform to handle the sale of exceptional land assets. Fay Ranches is headquartered in Bozeman, Montana with offices across the United States, from Oregon to Tennessee.
