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Behind a gated entrance, a paved drive winds a half mile through pine and aspen, crosses a new concrete bridge over Deer Creek, and opens into twenty-seven private acres of meadow, water and mountain. This is land first — the kind of Front Range acreage with live water, real infrastructure and genuine usability that has become very difficult to find.
Some properties are defined by the house that sits on them. This one is defined by the ground itself.
Twenty-seven and a tenth acres in the heart of Deer Creek Valley, fully fenced and entirely private. More than six hundred feet of Deer Creek moves through the property year-round. A private pond sits in the meadow. Aspen stands give way to mature pine, and the land rolls between open grazing ground and wooded seclusion, with mountain and valley views in nearly every direction.
It is forty-seven miles to Denver and only minutes to Highway 285 — close enough that the drive is unremarkable, far enough that the quiet is complete.
What makes this rare is not any one of those things. It is all of them together, on one deed, with the infrastructure already built.
Live water is the feature that cannot be manufactured, and this property has it in quantity.
Deer Creek runs more than six hundred feet through the acreage — not a seasonal draw, but a working creek. A private pond holds in the meadow below. Wetlands, grassed meadow and partially wooded slopes give the land genuine variety: open ground suitable for grazing, shaded stands of aspen and pine, and elevated positions that look out across the valley.
The well is permitted for three homes plus irrigation. In a mountain county where water rights routinely determine what a parcel can become, that permit is among the most valuable things here.
The approach tells you what kind of property this is.
A private gate opens onto more than half a mile of paved driveway — not gravel, not a two-track — that climbs through the trees and crosses Deer Creek on a newly constructed reinforced concrete bridge built to carry real weight. Both were significant investments, and both are the sort of improvement that costs far more in time and permitting than most buyers anticipate.
Everything past the gate is yours, and nothing is visible from the road.
Mountain acreage usually asks a buyer to build the foundations before building anything else. Here, most of that work is done.
Recreating this infrastructure today would take years and considerable expense. It is arguably the property's most undervalued asset.
A separate, recently renovated two-bedroom, one-bath guest house sits on the property, complete with its own kitchen and laundry — roughly two thousand square feet of finished, functional space.
It gives the property immediate utility. It works as full-time quarters while long-term plans take shape, as accommodation for guests or a caretaker, or as an income-producing use under Park County's short-term rental framework.
The property also includes a 5,127-square-foot residence, built in 1996 on a concrete slab with radiant floor heat, single-level, four bedrooms and four baths.
It is offered as an opportunity rather than a finished home. The next owner can renovate it, rebuild on the existing footprint and infrastructure, or remove it entirely and site something new to their own design. Architectural plans are available.
That flexibility is deliberate, and for the right buyer it is the point. The expensive, slow parts — the water, the gas, the septic, the driveway, the bridge, the gate, the entitlements — are already resolved. What remains is the part most buyers actually want to control.
The land is set up for livestock and has been used that way.
Fenced pasture, a round pen, a tack room and stream-fed water are all in place, and the well permit allows for irrigation. Zoning supports agriculture and ranching, private stables and a private riding arena. A chicken coop, barn and storage buildings round out the working infrastructure.
Twenty-seven acres of grazing ground with live water on it, an hour from Denver, is not a common offering.
There is no HOA.
Park County zoning permits a considerable range of uses here, including a single family residence, a guest house, agriculture and ranching, a private stable and riding arena, a home occupation, and up to four accessory structures on a parcel this size. Additional uses — a bed and breakfast, a conference and retreat facility, a recreational facility, a kennel, a private club — are available on a conditional basis through the county.
Buyers should verify intended uses directly with Park County Land Use. But the range is unusually wide, and it opens doors that most mountain properties have closed.
Deer Creek Valley sits in the corridor that Front Range buyers have quietly prized for decades: real mountains, real water, and a straightforward drive to town.
Highway 285 is minutes away. Denver is roughly forty-seven miles — under an hour in ordinary conditions. Outdoor recreation is immediately at hand in every direction, and Bailey provides day-to-day services without the resort-town pricing that accompanies similar terrain further west.
You are in the mountains. You are not, however, far from anything.
Land, water, location and infrastructure. Those four things determine what a property can ever become, and all four are already resolved here.
Twenty-seven private acres. Six hundred feet of live creek. A pond. A well permitted for three homes. Natural gas, septic, solar, a gated paved approach and a bridge built to last. A renovated guest house ready to use now, and a residence that leaves the next chapter open.
Offered at $1,295,000.
Shown by appointment with the listing agent present. Proof of funds required in advance.
3763 County Road 43
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