Twenty-two miles from Boulder. Eighteen from Lyons. Twenty-four from Estes Park. And then-the turnoff.111 Peaceful Valley Road. The name alone sounds like somebody slipped a little frontier myth into the county records.A riverfront spread of ~0.40 acres lifting itself just above the Middle Fork of the St. Vrain River, like… Read More it knows exactly where the floodwater stops and the good life starts. Forty-five minutes west of Boulder, suspended halfway between Nederland and Allenspark along the old ribbon of the Peak-to-Peak Highway-one of those roads where every curve feels like a postcard somebody forgot to mail.Across the road? Some of the finest hiking and cross-country ski trails in the Front Range. Half a mile from the Indian Peaks Wilderness-that vast alpine cathedral of granite, timberline, trout streams, snowfields, and wildflowers exploding out of the earth like nature showing off for company. Hiking, skiing, fishing, OHV trails, camping, backpacking-the whole Rocky Mountain fever dream.And the wildlife! Hummingbirds darting around like tiny jeweled fighter planes. Deer moving silently through the trees at dusk. Elk appearing out of the morning mist with the solemn confidence of old forest gods.Southern exposure, too. The kind homesteaders used to brag about over black coffee and woodsmoke. Ideal for solar heating and electric. Electricity already on site. Septic already there. A 500-gallon water tank waiting patiently for the next steward to add a well or cistern if desired.There's an existing structure on the property-weathered, wounded, romantic in the way mountain places often are. Repair it. Remove it. Start over. The land doesn't care. The river keeps talking either way.And then the closer-the one that gets people every time:Fly-fishing. In your own backyard. Read Less
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