Recreational Land for Sale in Branson, Colorado

Poitry Canyon Elk, Deer and Cattle Ranch is +/- 8836 deeded acres, and totals 13.80 square miles. Located approximately 55 minutes east from I-25 in Las Animas County, the ranch is embedded in, and named after, the +/- 7 mile long Poitry Canyon. Monster mule deer and elk herds abound throughout the property, while the canyon also carries your very own resident herd of rocky mountain big horn sheep.

Improvements

Headquarters and Improvements

This incredible well-watered, fenced, and cross-fenced holding offers end-of-the-road, locked-gate privacy.

The property also includes a very comfortable 3-bedroom/2-bath ranch house, full-length covered front porch, 40 x 80 shop/barn, with half concreted, heated and closed-in, the other half gravel floor, and equipment bays. Included also is a walk-in cooler, wash-down pad, 2-bedroom barn-apartment, and 4 bays for equipment storage.

An added feature, located about halfway between both headquarters, is the historic stone house. Tucked back by a canyon spring with a remodeled roof and exterior, leaving the inside for buyer's completion. With completely hand-quarried stone and a new metal roof, this beautiful stone house would make a great guest quarters, VRBO, game room, or hunting/ranching headquarters.

Guest Headquarters/Hunters Retreat

Located approximately 2 miles further into the ranch, complete with water and power, is the Hunters Headquarters with full year-round accommodations, 2-bedroom/2-bath home with screened porch, and 2 large barn/equipment sheds.

Recreation

Located completely within BGU 136, the Poitry Canyon Ranch is in the very heart of Colorado's best kept secret.

• The Plains Elk Units. For over 20 years, the state's 5-month long, unlimited tags PER HUNTER, commences Sept1- Jan 31, and includes rifle through the rut. Either sex, no-antler restriction, and unlimited tags per hunter (C class), makes for the most liberal elk tags in the nation. With most of the ranch properties in these units rather large holdings, and less than 2% of the land being public, some of these bulls get to a monstrous size - with a 411 and 388 taken in this unit in recent years.

Las Animas County has also been ranked as high as #2 in the state for producing monster B&C mule deer, and every year some plains bruisers make the books. Poitry Canyon Ranch has averaged 4-5 landowner buck tags annually. Whitetails, while not common, are also seen in the canyons. The ranch has received a couple of pronghorn antelope tags annually as well. Merriam's turkeys abound, bear and lion are OTC tags as well, and the waterholes carry large flocks of doves in season. The herd of Rocky Mountain Big Horns are in a hunt-able unit, but the tag takes many preference points.

Water/Mineral Rights & Natural Resources

Water/Mineral Rights & Natural Resources

Complementing the 10 registered wells on the ranch, centrally located in the center pasture are the working pens, complete with water and storage tanks, complementing the 8.5 miles of water lines, 18 inline drinkers and 8 dirt tanks (some seasonal).

General Operations

General Operations

For the tax minded investor, there are 8 pastures, +/- 24 miles of fencing, 10 wells, 18 drinkers, 3 barns of depreciable assets (always check with your accountant). The ranch has been kept in Ag Tax status, with an annual tax bill of +/- $2500 for 2025. The ranch has been carrying 80-100 pair of cattle annually, with more than one local rancher requesting grazing leases.

Location

Under one hour from Trinidad's jet capable airport, I -25, and within a 3 hour drive of the 5.5 million population on Colorado's front range. The ranch is also a convenient 3.5 hour drive to Amarillo and the millions of sportsmen calling Texas home. The location of this prized property is easily accessible and extremely desirable for future resale. Gently rolling mesas, with an average elevation in the lower 5000s, with vertical canyons of 800 ft., the ranch enjoys a mild 4-season climate that one can easily enjoy for a lifetime. With an excellent road and side-by-side system totaling approximately 30 miles of ranch trails, this property leaves little to be desired.

The demand for private, quality recreational ranch lands will only continue to soar. With many unimproved land prices exceeding $2500 to $4000 an acre, the values like Poitry Canyon Trophy Elk, Mule Deer and Cattle at a price of +/-$1611 per acre will be a vision of the past.