8,953 Acres in Catron County, Pie Town, New Mexico

Continental Divide Trophy Elk & Cattle Ranch, Pie Town, New Mexico+/- 8953 acresLocated less than 10 minutes from Pie Town, New Mexico, north of Highway 60 in West Central NM lies the rolling savannas of the Continental Divide Trophy Elk & Cattle Ranch. The +/- 6186 deeded acres, continuous with +/- 2767 acre state lease, totals +/- 8953 acres. Its getting harder and harder to find these large holdings today.The Continental Divide Ranch is fenced and cross fenced and crisscrossed witha +/- 20-mile waterline with 20 drinkers. The ranch is a known trophy elk producer, located in BGU 12, being upgraded to a specialty elk unit in 2019. Unit 12 has documented bull elk harvested over 400 inches.  The CDR southern border is BGU 13, a trophy elk unit. Withregard to New Mexicos new scoring criteria, evaluating each ranch with a contribution score for habitat the following are needed.Minimum grazing, great water disbursement with 6 wells and excellent food plots checks the boxes for the perfect elk hunting & cattle ranch.  In 2019 the ranch owner documented dozens of bull elk, hundreds of cows and also documenting several mule deer approaching the 200 mark.Bands of pronghorn antelope travel throughout the property. This area is readily accessible to Arizona, Utah, Nevada and California (all states that could take 10-20 years plus to draw an elk tag). Both mule deer and antelope tags in Unit 12 are unlimited for landowners. Pie Town NM, population 186, is an unincorporated town located at the intersection of Highway 60 and the Continental Divide. The town has held this special designation for close to 100 years since it was settled in the 1920s by a pie maker as a stopover for travelers.Pie Town hosts an annual Pie Festival the 2nd weekend in September every year, and was featured in Smithsonian Magazine in February 2005 and CBS Sunday Morning in 2015.Its 5 hours to Phoenix AZ, 5 hours 30 min to Tucson, and 1 hour to Springerville, AZ jet capable airport complete with rental cars.IMPROVEMENTSThe Continental Divide Ranch features a late model +/- 2000 sq. ft. modular converted to a permanent home with full length, covered, southern style porch. The home has a +/- 900 sq. ft. living area addition totaling 2900 square feet.The home is 4 bedroom/3 baths with a large pantry and laundry room.This low maintenance home has 2 pellet stoves and a gas fireplace.Single story living makes for enjoying your home and property well into your upper years as well as hosting elderly guests.Approximately an acre is fenced with the home. Theres a separate fenced garden, 2 green houses and a fenced dog pen to compliment the headquarters. An insulated 40 x 60 shop with a rail system cleaning rack and walk in cold room, half bathand upstairs loft makes for an excellent storage area for your ranch toys and equipment.A cinder gravel drive accents the headquarters behind locked gate entranceway.The original headquarters are being torn down and removed, but a working 4 bay…

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Pie Town, 87827 New Mexico

County: Catron