2,131 Acres with Home, Corrals, Barn, Cabins, Fishing in Routt County, Yampa, Colorado

Phillips Creek Yampa Ranch is a diverse and beautiful mountain ranch offering the land and improvements for a year-round cattle operation plus year-round recreational benefits highlighted by excellent hunting and fishing. With many strong points, the highlights include: excellent water rights including the #2 water right in the upper Yampa basin; live water fishery in Phillips Creek; deeded land with hunting cabin backing to National Forest; and a solid cattle operation. LOCATION The Phillips Creek Yampa Ranch is located just south of Yampa, CO along both sides of State Highway 131 corridor, with year-round access via Routt CR 6d and State Highway 131. Yampa is centrally located to the resort community of Steamboat Springs, 25 miles north, and to the Interstate 70 corridor, 50 miles south. LOCALE In addition to easy access to Steamboat and Vail, the area has air service from Yampa Valley Regional Airport, with daily flights to Denver and non-stop flights to major US cities and is only 35 miles northwest in the Town of Hayden. Yampa is noted as the Gateway to the Flattops, an area rich with outdoor recreational opportunities – hiking, biking, climbing, fishing, back country skiing, hunting - along with all the nearby amenities of Steamboat Springs and the Steamboat Springs Ski Area. Also, Yampa and nearby Oak Creek offer small town hospitality, with grocery, shopping, and restaurant amenities. ACREAGE & WATER DESCRIPTION The Phillips Creek Yampa Ranch consists of 2,131 acres of deeded land and 120 acres of BLM. There are approximately 241 acres irrigated meadow plus additional bottomland pasture.  The upland grades easterly with sage brush hills into aspen and pine trees to the easterly border which joins the Routt National Forest boundary. Irrigated lands have numerous irrigation rights and several that have early priority.  The highlighted water right is “All of the Pennsylvania Ditch from the Roaring Fork of the Yampa River, adjudicated by Decree as Priority No. 2, with an appropriation date of June 6, 1883, for 5.3 cfs.”  This right is #2 in the upper basin and #6 on the entire Yampa River.  A 1903 Supplemental Pennsylvania Ditch right is for another 5.3 cfs.  Additional water rights from 3 other ditches provide 5.02 cfs early priority water and another 10 cfs of supplemental water rights.  These surface rights are backed up by 520-acre feet of valuable storage rights in the Yamcolo Reservoir.  In addition to existing irrigated acreage the ranch has capability to develop another 150 acres on the west side of Phillips Creek. Combined, the ranch offers over 30 cfs of decreed water rights together with 520 AF (roughly 18%) of storage rights in the Yamcolo Reservoir having arguably the best water rights in the basin and making it essentially “drought proof”.  A complete list of water rights is available. Elevations on the ranch range from a base elevation of 8,000 ft climbing to 8,800 ft above sea level at the eastern ranch boundary which connects with Routt National Forest, allow for dramatic views of the Flattops…

Home, Corrals, Barn, Cabins, Fishing, Creek

Acreage, Hunting Property, Mountain Land, Recreational Land, Home, Farm, Ranch, Home With Acreage, Cattle Ranch

Yampa, 80483 Colorado

County: Routt