Recreational Land with Home for Sale in Sterling, Colorado

Sterling Acreage is an excellent opportunity to acquire 37 +/- acres of land on the western outskirts of Sterling on Hwy 14. The property has a beautiful 3-bedroom, 3-bath newer modular home on a partially finished basement including an attached 2 car garage and a 3-season sunroom.

This property would be ideal as a small equestrian property or possible a club calf ranch.

This property also boasts amazing views of the South Platte River Valley.

Land

Sterling Acreage consists of approximately 37.15 acres more or less of level land.

The property is basically level and is covered with native grasses.

Improvements

This property has a beautiful open concept 1560 square foot 2020 Bonnavilla 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom modular home on a full (additional 1560 square foot) partially finished basement and an attached 2 car garage. The home has a forced air furnace and central AC.

The home has a primary suite with a large bath and walk-in closet, 2 additional bedrooms and a full bath on the main floor. The open kitchen with appliances and living room provide a wonderful gathering area. There is a separate, centrally located laundry room with access to the attached 2 car garage. The home includes a beautiful enclosed 3 season sunroom providing excellent views of the South Platte River Valley.

The partially finished basement is an open canvas for you to design as you please, there is a 3rd large bathroom and an additional laundry hook-up already in place.

There is a small horse barn and a set of corrals with an automatic water.

Recreation

Sterling Acreage offers endless recreation opportunities!

You will be able to go hunting on nearby public lands along the South Platte River, to fishing and watersports at nearby North Sterling Reservoir.

This area is well known for small game and varmints to monster plains mule deer, white tailed deer and pronghorn.

If you are a golfer, the Sky Ranch Golf Course is only minutes away!

You will also have the opportunity to go hiking, biking or having fun on your ATV/UTV all on your own property!

Agriculture

This property would be ideal as an equestrian or small cattle operation.

Water/Mineral Rights & Natural Resources

All appurtenant water rights associated with this property will transfer to the Buyer at Closing.

General Operations

Sterling Acreage is currently a residential acreage with a small horse pen and a pasture.

Region & Climate

Weather Highlights

Summer High: the July high is around 90 degrees

Winter Low: the January low is 15

Rain: averages 17 inches of rain a year

Snow: averages 31 inches of snow a year

Sterling, CO has a semi-arid climate with cool winters and warm summers. The average high temperature in July is 89°F and the average low temperature in January is 12°F. Precipitation generally occurs in light snowfall from December to March, with cooler temperatures persisting through May. During the summer months, Sterling experiences hot days and cool nights, making it a great place for outdoor activities. The humidity levels are fairly low all year round, resulting in comfortable weather overall.

Sterling, Colorado gets 17 inches of rain, on average, per year. The US average is 38 inches of rain per year.

Sterling averages 31 inches of snow per year. The US average is 28 inches of snow per year.

On average, there are 225 sunny days per year in Sterling. The US average is 205 sunny days.

Sterling gets some kind of precipitation, on average, 61 days per year. Precipitation is rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground. In order for precipitation to be counted you have to get at least .01 inches on the ground to measure.

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History

The first inhabitants of the plains were the Indians – Arapaho, Cheyenne, Crow, Blackfoot, Sioux, Kiowa and Pawnee. They survived and even thrived. The first non-Indians were French-Canadian trappers who passed through the area on their way to the beaver-rich foothills of the Rockies. They stayed only as long as there was a demand for the pelts and then moved on. Explorers such as Stephen H. Long passed through what is now Logan County on June 26, 1820. He referred to this area as “The Great American Desert.”

Discovery of gold in California in 1849, and ten years later in the Colorado mountains, made the Overland Trail (a branch of the Oregon Trail) the most heavily traveled road in the country by miners, fur traders, settlers and Indians who used the “superhighway” of the high plains. The South Platte Section of the Overland Trail reached diagonally across Logan County, bringing thousands of brave and adventurous people across the unmarked prairie.

You can take a scenic, rural drive into the past to “meet” these ghosts of Colorado pioneers. Some of the sites are marked, so you can stand on the spot where the stagecoach passengers stopped at the sod buildings for their meals of buffalo, antelope, biscuits, coffee, and dried apple pie. Sites can be reached from 1-76 which passes through the sandhills, or from US Hwy 6 and US Hwy 138, which joins the small towns built between 1874 and 1908, with their early buildings still standing. There are good roads along the river in the Tamarack Ranch State Wildlife Area and from the Overland Trail Museum in Sterling to the town of Atwood by way of County Road 370, that roughly parallel the trail where wagon drivers cursed the endless sand and the insects and the heat of the treeless river bottom.

Sterling was incorporated in December 1884 and became the county seat of the newly formed Logan County in 1887. Logan County was formed by an act of the Colorado State Legislature on February 25, 1887. The County was formerly a part of Weld County and citizens from the eastern part of the state were required to travel to Greeley, the county seat to conduct official business. Citizens petitioned the state legislature to form the new county. Later on, Phillips and Sedgwick Counties were created from the original Logan County.

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Location

Sterling Acreage is located on the south side of Hwy 14 approximately 5 1/2 miles west of downtown Sterling.

1.5 hours straight east of Ft. Collins and 1 hour and 45 minutes northeast of Denver and Denver International Airport.

The property is 7 miles west of Interstate I-76 and/or approximately 12 miles north of Interstate I-76 via county roads.