The Community of the Year for the entire Denver Metro Area: Homebuyers are showing every sign that they already know that coveted award was won this year by BackCountry – Highlands Ranch’s final chapter unfolding against 8,200 acres of scenic open space.

Sundial House, Gold Nugget award winning clubhouse, is luring large numbers of visitors behind BackCountry’s gates. Its Pikes Pub bar overlooks the 467-acre – South Rim.

And those buyers are arriving to see BackCountry in big numbers – up to 100 visitors a weekend despite the winter weather.

You can slip behind the gates at BackCountry to have your own look with a special gate pass that you can pick up at BackCountry’s Discovery Center, off Broadway three miles south of C-470. That includes a look at the splendid Sundial House private retreat/clubhouse – dramatic architecture, views of the ridges, the Front Range, and city lights, and alluring Pikes Pub bar for residents – that won architect Mike Woodley his own flurry of awards, including the National Association of Home Builders’ Gold Award for best clubhouse, and the Pacific Coast Builders Conference sought-after Gold Nugget.

“This is a chance to see a community with miles of private hiking and biking trails, and that has its own 467-acre open space, its own outdoor amphitheater, a resort-quality pool, and a lifestyle director who plans activities for our families, to help build a true sense of community,” says Cheryl Haflich, marketing director for Shea Homes, the community’s developer. “Those amenities create a lifestyle unlike anything on the Colorado residential scene.”

You’ll also appreciate the easy commuter access to employment campuses and city attractions, while you tour twelve different models from the $300s, by Richmond American, Shea Homes and Toll Brothers – along with a semi-custom model (tour it today from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.) by Paragon Homes. Nearby are some half-acre home sites where Shea offers its impressive Water Dance series homes, from the upper $500s, including two new plans that open as models next weekend. Those are the largest sites ever offered in Water Dance — so popular that Shea took three sales, plus three reservations, just since the holidays.

…And you’ll see that 467-acre South Rim that BackCountry residents get as a private reserve, unfolding beyond the outdoor amphitheater beside Sundial House. Residents also enjoy fitness/movement studios, spa treatment rooms — even a demonstration kitchen … not to mention the pools, designed grotto-style to blend with the setting. Start your tour of the Community of the Year winner from the Discovery Center, just outside the gate as Broadway becomes BackCountry Drive. From C-470 take Broadway south 2.8 miles, past Wildcat Reserve Parkway; watch for the Discovery Center on your left.
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IF YOU GO

WHERE: Gate passes available to see Highlands Ranch’s BackCountry and its Gold Award-winning Sundial House private retreat; 12 models by participating builders including semi-custom home. Pick up gate pass at BackCountry Discovery Center; from C-470 take Broadway south 2.8 mi., past Wildcat Reserve Pkwy, left in to Discovery Center parking lot just before gate.

PRICE: Richmond American from $300s; Shea Homes from $400s-$700s; Toll Brothers from upper-$500s; Paragon semi-custom homes from $1M (view 10 a.m.–2 p.m.); Custom Collection from $1.2M
WHEN: Today 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday 11–6
PHONE: 720-344-9600 WEB: BackCountryCO.com

Ninety minutes west of town, Granby Ranch and SolVista ski area are tracking the best ski-visitor year they’ve ever seen, on pace to beat last year’s record. “Families that live here are up here every weekend,” says Jennifer Colley, sales director.

Builder Ken Ash and Sales Rep Jennifer Colley show the trail layout for the two homes at Granby Ranch; and have ski passes for families that tour.

“People tell me ‘We know our neighbors here; we don’t necessarily know our neighbors in Denver.’” Colley will show you two resort homes that could put you in that mix…at prices that sound more like townhomes than single-family.

No. 325 and 515 Lone Eagle Drive are each new, 3-bedroom/3-bath homes with garages (one is 2-car oversized) … close enough to SolVista’s ‘Home Again’ run that you can ski-in. (They also get a shuttle to the base, twice morning and afternoon). Each is short-sale priced, $340,000 and $370,000…and Colley and her team want them gone now.

Granby Ranch’s Eisenhower Camp, where two short-sale priced homes have ski-in access.

“It’s the best value for a single-family home in Granby Ranch,” she adds – adding that with 55 sales last year, Granby Ranch is fastest seller in the Winter Park/Grand County area. If you come look, Colley will give every one of your family that takes a 35-minute tour a day’s ski pass good anytime this season. That’ll include a look at SolVista’s family–friendly base with its ski school; Seven Trails Grille where parents unbuckle for a glass of wine at day’s end while they watch their kids ski in; and the new pool-and-hot tub (75 residents turned up for its grand opening during Christmas Week activities).

Buyers of those homes will also get keycards that unlock Granby Ranch’s 4-season amenities – the Grange fitness center; private club with bar/grille overlooking the base; Headwaters Golf Course (with two family knock-around holes behind the back-nine) where along with their ski passes, residents get four foursomes/year as part of their HOA dues; the bike trails; and a 4-mile trout lease that winds the Fraser River below.

Speaking of grille, Colley and builder Ken Ash agree that food has something to do with Granby Ranch’s draw. “They serve some fantastic meals at Seven Trails,” says marketing manager Lisa Craig, talking about the supple scallops in the chef’s mixed grill. “Food is another reason when you come in over the hill, you really never need to leave.”

You’ll see that intimacy that sets Granby Ranch apart underscored in those two final Lodgepole homes, she adds. “The value’s greater; if you experience it, you’ll get it.” Take U.S. 40 west from I-70, 43 miles (15 miles past Winter Park) to Village Road, then east two miles, just past the ski base, to the Preview Center.

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WHERE: Lodgepole Homes at Granby Ranch, single-family resort homes at SolVista ski area; 2 remaining 3-bed/3-bath homes w/garage, short-sale prices; ski-in plus shuttle service to base; 1 free ski pass for each family member that tours. 999 Village Rd., Granby; from I-70 take U.S. 40 west 43 mi. (15 mi. past Winter Park) to Village Rd., right 2 mi., just past ski parking to Granby Ranch Mountain Preview Center

PRICE: Two remaining homes, $340,000, $370,000
WHEN: Today & daily 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
PHONE: 970-887-5250 WEB: GranbyRanch.com

Developer Clark Lipscomb of Cornerstone Holdings casts into a resident’s pond nearby Grand Park’s first neighborhood, Cozens Meadow in Winter Park.

Lipscomb’s Grand Park resort beside the new Grand Park Rec Center, has three homes closing this week and next; but recent buyers, says Lipscomb, tend to be from California, Washington or back east – people who already own older places in Winter Park and who have watched the market, waiting for the moment to move up.

That leaves only six of the original 23 homes left for you to see today or over Labor Day Weekend – each hugely discounted, like trout in a barrel, likely to be picked off by those who know the waters.

“These people are getting great buys,” Lipscomb said as he showed me perfectly groomed Cozens Meadow. To give Front Range families a fair shot, he’ll let you draw a ticket for four rounds of golf, just for touring today or over Labor Day weekend. (The winner can pick from any of the four Grand County courses). You’ll see the fishing (so hot that lunkers were rising at anything); the rec center with its pools, slides and climbing walls; and the Village at Grand Park, already showing a coffee bar, wine/liquor store, and construction underway on a 2-screen theater, wood-fired pizza place and boutique bowling alley.

Meanwhile, you can be first to view sites for a new series of ranch/cabin-styled Craftsman single-families, pre-sale priced from $399,000. Like the current homes, they’ll be walkable by trail to the Village, closer still to the open space. “It is a huge advantage to have a pedestrian friendly design,” Lipscomb said. “You’ve just spent an hour and a half driving, you’re ready for a cocktail, or the kids want to go play. You’re not going to want to get in your car again, and it’s a 5-minute walk to the Village and the entertainment.”

You’ll view homes like a ‘Spruce’ main-floor master, five bedrooms, 4-1/2 baths, 2-car garage, formerly $995,000, now $639,000. You’ll see a new package of furnishings – everything you need to vacation, even a hot tub, available as an option. To reach Grand Park, take I-70 west to U.S. 40; then west 28 miles, through downtown Winter Park to a left at Old Victory Road at Bank of the West.
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PHOTO: Grand County’s Cozens Meadow, with 4-and-5 bedroom resort single family homes, some discounted $350,000 over previous price. Below, .
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If You Go…

WHERE: Grand Park, luxury single-family resort homes in year-round ski resort neighborhood; new series of ranch- single-family resort homes opens today from $399,000; drawing for 4 rounds of mountain golf. U.S. 40 at Old Victory Rd., Winter Park; take I-70 west to U.S. 40; west on 40 28 mi. to Winter Park; continue through downtown, left at Old Victory (Bank of the West).

PRICE: From $399,000; ready-to-move-in from $539,000
WHEN: Today and throughout Labor Day Weekend, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
PHONE: 970-726-8700 WEB: GrandParkCo.com

Owner Duane Larson (left) and agent Pat McGuire show home in Bear Tooth Ranch.

By 2002, Larson had builder Ken Gray rendering the Keating design into a 7,000-foot main-floor master suite plan, with eye-catching interior, massive Venetian plaster walls and prominent timber construction. But what’ll really get you is the home site.

“Nobody is ever going to have a home back there,” Larson said to himself, when he stood out on a promontory at the highest point of his 35 acres, surveying the lot perimeters. Behind him was Bear Tooth Ranch itself – every site 35 acres, the lowest density you could find anywhere this close to town. Then there’s Ralston Reservoir, scenic and heavily protected holding tank for water coming down from the Moffat Tunnel; beside 110 acres of protected bear reserve into the scenic Ralston Creek Valley, with the craggy Ralston Buttes as a backdrop.

Larson said he used to camp out on the promontory during construction and often thought about building some kind of gazebo out there (it’s now a centerpiece of the view from two huge decks) – an idea that will wait for the next owner. Meanwhile, he timed the commuting distances for a view that should reasonably be hours from town: 22 minutes to the REI store in LoDo; 8 minutes into some favorite restaurants in Golden’s historic downtown.

“It’s a tremendous value,” says Realtor Pat McGuire of RE/MAX Alliance. “You couldn’t match it for the home and site at this price.”
You’ll see a terrific kitchen-morning room area in tile and timber, a guest-suite upstairs with Juliet balcony overlooking the great room, a finished walkout with bar, rec room and exercise room; and a lush interior design rendered in Santa Fe colors — mustards and deep reds to match all of the woodwork. Bear Tooth Ranch has its security gate open for today’s tour, 1-5 p.m. From U.S. 6 or Colo. 58, take Hwy 93 north through Golden, 4 miles to W. 56th Avenue, then left a mile to Glencoe Valley Road; enter Bear Tooth Ranch only by appointment.

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WHERE: Lakefront custom home by Karen Keating in Bear Tooth Ranch, 35-acre site, gated community, cookies & coffee. 6779 Bear Point Wy, Golden; from U.S. 6 or Colo. 58, take Hwy 93 north thru Golden, 4 mi. to W. 56th Ave., turn left, 1 mi to Glencoe Valley Rd; call Realtor for appt.

PRICE: $3.35 million
WHEN: By appointment
PHONE: 303-888-2576

Current owner Jan Oxman and Jim Smith of Golden Real Estate show the Kessinger House, beside North Table Mountain.

“It’s like two Easter eggs,” says Golden Realtor Jim Smith, who has double-domed 17830 W. 53rd Drive and its 3.75-acre site near North Table Mountain, on the market at $550,000. Kessinger’s creation by architect Stan Nord Connolly has two polyurethane orbs melted over paraboloid porticos…circled by portholes that give the kitchen the semblance of standing at the bridge on Starship Enterprise.

The saucer-like home arrived in 1969, when some others were appearing around town that Woody Allen would pick for his 1973 [ITALICS]Sleeper. Kessinger recalls onlookers peering through the portholes. “People would sit up there and get stoned and look at it,” he said from his shop in Commerce City, where he’s now working on a Formula car. “I was afraid they’d set the mountain on fire.”

Psychologist and current owner Jan Oxman warmed the place up with cushioned seating, red-tile wine racks, and something absolutely eye-catching when you step inside: a moon-shaped skylight she cut through the dome, that captures the basalt walls of Table Mountain, 400 feet above. She pulled out some of Kessinger’s more exotic appointments: backlit colored glass insets through dome and floors (“I have some hippy in me, but not that much,” she said). She also took a chance and removed some steel braces that Connolly had added to be on the safe side with the novelistic engineering. Kessinger, who fabricated the domes by sinking rebar into concrete, then inflating Mylar balloons as forms for the urethane, approves: “It was designed to take 700,000 pounds static pressure,” he recalls. “Without the supports you’re (only) removing 30%.”

You’ll see a tuck-under garage with office (“the only rectangular rooms in the house,” notes Smith) and a 24 x 60-foot barn where Oxman’s horses Puzzles and Lady swim in room. “I want somebody that falls in love with it the way I did when I saw it,” she says. “I wish I could still live there,” adds Kessinger. “I understand the magic of it…the moon shining and the snow coming over the mountain — surreal.” To reach take McIntyre to W. 50th, west to Easley, right to the fork onto 53rd; and up the hill, jogging north to 53rd Drive.

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WHERE: 17830 W. 53rd Dr., Golden; from I-70 head west on 58 (Golden Fwy) to McIntyre, north 1 mi. to W. 50th, left 1 mi. to Easley, right 2 blks to a fork left onto W. 53rd; at Ulysses turn right, then left up hill onto 53rd Dr.

PRICE: $550,000
WHEN: By appointment
PHONE: 303-525-1851

A penthouse loft overlooks Howelsen Hill and the trout-laden Yampa River on one side; trendy new dining and shopping along Steamboat’s Lincoln Avenue main street on the other.

“Steamboat was historically priced better than other luxury areas, and locals understand that the value is there now,” Realtor Angela Ashby of Prudential Steamboat Realty said during a trip around town. She’ll be on hand all this week at one of two open houses that make that point – one offering big, luxurious single-family attached homes at the base mountain; the other, a LoDo style loft that’s surrounded by so many trendy shops and restaurants that it earns a walk-score in the nineties.

“This is a town with a resort, not a resort with a town,” Prudential’s Brian Ladd told me over lunch at Winona’s on Steamboat’s main street – swarming with the ski crowd, most of them looking as if they’d hopped in on one of the non-stop jets from Chicago or New York. He’ll show you The Olympian, a loft project that looks toward Steamboat Mountain and the shopping on one side; and the Yampa River on the other (even in winter you can pull big trout out of there).

Developer Paul Franklin is marking five sales in the last 12 months, at WAY below the 2008 prices, originally reaching toward $2 million. “It’s like I’ve never lived in Steamboat before,” says Charles Feldmann, 15-year Steamboat resident who moved in last year. Ladd will show you 2-bedrooms from the low $600s; and some penthouse lofts with decks overlooking downtown’s historic Howelsen Hill ski area.

Meanwhile, you can tour the last four large, luxury single-family attached homes at Stonewood at Eagle Ridge, close to the base mountain, with on-demand shuttle service provided as part of the HOA fee. The 23-home project by Kreissig was hitting sales to $2.3 million before the drop-off – but right now you could pick up a grand, 4-bedroom home with heated 2-car attached garage, gorgeous bedroom suites, plenty of room for all of your family or friends, in the $1.4s and $1.5s.

“Once they’re gone, they’re gone,” notes Kim Kreissig, broker with Prudential Steamboat, who developed the project with husband Peter Kreissig. Finishes in both projects are primo – alder cabs and hand-scraped pecan floors at Stonewood; barn doors and hickory floors in the lofts. Both are open this weekend and next, or call for a showing.

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WHERE: Two offerings of luxury homes in Steamboat, huge savings; The Olympian, 2-3 bed lofts in historic downtown; and Stonewood at Eagle Ridge, 4-bed homes by Kreissig Homes w/ 2-car garages on Steamboat Mountain. Lofts: 35 Fifth St., downtown Steamboat, take U.S. 40/Lincoln, left on 5th (toward river); Ski homes, 1235 Eagle Glen Dr.; off Mt. Werner Rd. at Eagle Ridge Dr.

PRICE: Lofts from $616,000; luxury attached homes from $1.4 million
WHEN: Today, tomorrow; Fri-Sun 2-5 p.m.; Stonewood open daily 10-6; weekends 11-5; or by appointment
PHONE: 970-819-4905 (lofts); 970-846-4250 (ski homes)
WEB: TheOlympianSteamboat.com KreissigHomes.com

Telluride Regional Airport, with a $54 million makeover that included a jet-friendly runway, is drawing a high-end clientele. Brett Schreckengost, courtesy Telluride Regional Airport.

Harvey has worked the Telluride market for 27 years, building a clientele that includes numbers of international buyers. Like other agents who have toughed-out the mountain market, he’s now seeing a pickup — 25% in year-over-year sales; 50% in dollar volume — that could be a harbinger of better times. Included is an increased number of international buyers. “To own here is seen as very prestigious,” Harvey noted, adding that he’d recently worked with buyers from the UK, Singapore, and Brazil.

Telluride – up a box canyon in the San Miguel Range – ranks as one of the tougher resorts to get to – but also has an advantage in drawing that clientele: an airport a few miles from historic downtown, with a 7,111-foot runway served by an instrument landing system, newly updated with $54 million in improvements.

“If you have a jet it’s a big deal to you,” Harvey said, noting that Wednesday he’d ridden the town’s gondola up the hill to the mountain village for lunch, where Jerry Seinfeld was dining at the next table. Telluride – in air miles, one of the closest Colorado areas to Los Angeles – gained a reputation for the Hollywood crowd over the past decade. However, it’s Texas that may have a bigger effect in returning a prosperous market.

“This is a discretionary purchase, like a jet or a big boat in Lauderdale, and the economy in Texas is pretty good,” Harvey said. Recently he toured Waco buyers around an exclusive range of properties. “We showed them homes from $9 million to $13 million,” he added. “That’s all they were interested in.”

Meanwhile, Congress’ passage of an extension of the Bush-era tax cuts – specifically aspects that benefit the highest incomes – is likely to be tangible for those markets in months to come. “It was a little win for Colorado resorts,” Harvey notes. “For people who can afford this, those were very positive things.”

Harvey, president of the Colorado Association of Realtors last year, publishes a market report on ten Colorado resorts. He has a web site at TheHarveyTeam.net.
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Lazy Dog Ranch includes a home office, located off of the master bedroom, with a built-in solid wrap-around wood desk.

That summit, featured in Coors Beer ads and hundreds of other advertising portrayals, is the backdrop of a ten-acre property that Telluride Realtor George Harvey is showing this season: Lazy Dog Ranch, priced at $2,650,000. Thirty minutes from Telluride’s old-Colorado downtown and closer to newly updated Telluride Regional Airport, the ranch is centered around a unique custom home built in the mid-1980s, showcasing contemporary alpine architecture that was extensively updated in a 2008 remodel.

Included with the 4,149 foot, 4-bedroom, 3-bath home are fenced corrals, two riding arenas, and a horse barn with four handsome stalls, wash rack and three run-outs, plus a 1,386-foot guest quarter, above the barn. The main house features elaborate woodwork, vaulted wood ceilings, entertainment area with a mini bar, a free standing two-story rock wood-burning fireplace, and dining and kitchen areas that blend solid cabinetry, granite countertops, and upgraded appliances including a Sub-Zero fridge.

Harvey adds that there are gorgeous views of surrounding peaks and forest from most areas of the home. The master suite, accompanied by an expansive home office with a built-in solid wrap-around wood desk, offers one of the home’s large tiered decks, with a built-in hot tub.
The property also includes a seductive pond tucked into the aspens, and has two streams passing through. “How many times have I been asked, ‘I want a mountain property with a little stream running through it,’” Harvey asks.

He’ll show Lazy Dog Ranch and other Telluride area listings by appointment; call 970-728-4094 or visit the web site at LazyDogRanchWilsonMesa.com.
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WHERE: Four-bedroom custom home, 4,149 ft. on 10 acres near Telluride, elaborate barn with guest quarter, riding facilities, pond and stream. 1075 Wilson Mesa Ranch Cir., Telluride. Shown by appt.

PRICE: $2.65 million
WHEN: by appointment
PHONE: 970-728-4094 WEB: LazyDogRanchWilsonMesa.com

Coldwell Banker agent Stuart Huster of Grand Quarters (left) shows the resort home Jackie and John Dendahl bought on quarter ownership in Elk Track.

This week, the couple was up enjoying their new cabin-styled duplex at Elk Track in Grand Elk — on the third tee of the Craig Stadler golf course, 20 minutes from where Winter Park skiers were enjoying 10 inches of new powder. Unlike ‘time shares,’ the Dendahls have real ownership in their place – can rent it, trade it, deed it, sell it. The mortgage, along with monthlies for maintenance and amenities, are divvied up among the four owners by a management company.

“You’re getting something greater and more luxurious than you would normally buy,” says Coldwell Banker Mountain Properties agent Stuart Huster of Grand Quarters, LLC, experts on quarters at Elk Track (they start from only $129,000, $159,000 for a 4-bedroom) as well as Rendezvous at Winter Park, DreamCatcher at Lakota (across from Winter Park’s base village) and other sites. “It’s much closer to the dream, the real reason people buy mountain homes,” he adds. “Too often, you buy a place and find you’re spending your time there fixing it up.”
John Dendahl, who ran for governor of New Mexico in 2006 and then retired to Colorado, agrees: “For us, having one weekend out of four up here is plenty of time to be away from our Denver house,” he said, showing off views of the snowy Continental Divide from their big, post-log & beam family room. “Everything we had been told about it we got.”
Meanwhile, any concerns somebody might have about quarters have failed to materialize…including how you might get on with the other owners. “We hadn’t had any contact with them when we bought, but they’re wonderfully compatible,” Dendahl says. “In almost every situation there’s a lot of commonality,” adds Huster, noting that he and partner/agent Dennis Saffell have done dozens of these arrangements over the past two years – including 22 at DreamCatcher. One logical way to help assuage any such worries, Huster suggests, is to buy, and then to bring siblings or other family or friends in on other quarters.
Huster and Saffell can provide a prospectus with details – answering questions like “Can I bring Fido along when I come up?” — (they have some pet-friendly quarters). That’s included in a Holiday Open House of Quarters; drop by Coldwell Banker Mountain Properties in Winter Park, or call ahead to arrange a 90-minute personal tour as part of your holiday vacation in Winter Park.
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WHERE: Holiday open house, resort quarter-ownership properties by Grand Quarters, LLC; in Grand Elk, Rendezvous, Lakota, other winter Park area resorts. Coldwell Banker Mountain Properties, 78902 U.S. Hwy 40, Winter Park; take I-70 west past Idaho Springs to U.S. 40; west on 40 28 mi. to Winter Park; across from Deno’s Restaurant.

PRICE: Quarter ownerships from low $100s to $390s
WHEN: Drop by daily 10-6, or call ahead for tour
PHONE: 970-726-0123 WEB: GrandQuarters.com

You can be one of the first to see Club Rendezvous, an exclusive owner’s club at the Winter Park base, next to Starbucks and directly across from Zephyr Lift – the only owner’s club at Winter Park. “For our families, it’s going to be like, ‘Wow, this is the way it used to be,” says Silvio DeBartolomeis, Vice President of Sales at Koelbel.

Residents can leave the car back at their new cabin or townhome, as the Rendezvous Shuttle whisks the family directly to Club Rendezvous. Their skis and poles are already there, where they can gear-up while sitting by the fire, enjoying a coffee and hot chocolate.
“They’ll be riding the lift within minutes,” adds Dennis Saffell of Coldwell Banker Mountain Properties, exclusive agents at Rendezvous. He and Stuart Huster will give you a $20 gas card next weekend, in exchange for touring Rendezvous’ new home offerings; and a chance to see Club Rendezvous. Those opportunities start at just $179,900 – the price of a quarter-ownership in a new ProngHorn Townhome – a walkout ranch with attached 2-car garage, with views across the valley.
…Or, for as little as $339,900, you could buy into a quarter of a BigHorn cabin model –- four bedroom including two masters, 4,215 feet home in Rendezvous’ most exclusive neighborhood. “Quarter ownerships are catching on throughout the mountains,” adds Saffell. Huster and Saffell will explain how those work – including how you could put an ownership together with cousins or siblings; and of course, how you could buy a full ownership of one of those BigHorn Cabins, or of a ProngHorn Townhome at $419,900.
After the snow melts, Rendezvous families find the Fraser River waiting, along with their own private Mary’s Pond fishing lake, plus extensive hiking biking trails into the National Forest. Take I-70 west past Idaho Springs to U.S. 40; then west 28 miles, through downtown Winter Park, another half mile to the Discovery Center on right, look for the Rendezvous moose.
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WHERE: Grand opening of Club Rendezvous, Winter Park Resort’s only community base-village club; refreshments, $20 gas card for tour of Rendezvous. 77795 U.S. Hwy 40, Winter Park; take I-70 west past Idaho Springs to U.S. 40; west on 40 28 mi. to Winter Park; continue through town, another half mi. to Rendezvous Discovery Center

PRICE: From $419,900; quarter ownerships from $179,900
WHEN: Today and daily, 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.
PHONE: 970-726-8200 WEB: RendezvousColorado.com