Advice on Buying Land

[glocktoberfest]

I've been looking at land listings a while and am contemplating buying something up in the mountains. Can the experienced outdoorsman/landowners offer me some advice? What i want is tricky since some things conflict with each other, but here's my ideal list.

1. max 2-3 hrs from Denver
2. Backs to BLM so i can hike/atv right into nowhere
3. Near ski slopes so i can sleep there instead of a hotel during ski season [FORGET THIS ONE. IT DOESNT APPEAR COMPATIBLE WITH REST OF REQUIREMENTS]
4. max of 100k for a reasonable size piece of land (5 acres min)
5. Accessible to an RV. Maybe even water/electric to the property line

Is this list impossible? I'd really appreciate hearing from anybody who's gone down this road before. I see some listings that may work, but appear impassible towing an RV. I also see listings that are way over 100k.

Thanks in advance for your advice.

[Great-Kazoo]

I've been looking at land listings a while and am contemplating buying something up in the mountains. Can the experienced outdoorsman/landowners offer me some advice? What i want is tricky since some things conflict with each other, but here's my ideal list.

1. max 2-3 hrs from Denver
2. Backs to BLM so i can hike/atv right into nowhere
3. Near ski slopes so i can sleep there instead of a hotel during ski season
4. max of 100k for a reasonable size piece of land (5 acres min)
5. Accessible to an RV. Maybe even water/electric to the property line

Is this list impossible? I'd really appreciate hearing from anybody who's gone down this road before. I see some listings that may work, but appear impassible towing an RV. I also see listings that are way over 100k.

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Yes for everything listed. We had a similar list back in 85. Found property for (at the time) $5k (10 ac)
BUT....
While listed as 30 minutes from Morrison. It was another hour of switchbacks on dirt. That one would be stuck in, or prevented from accessing, during snow or heavy rains.

If you're near power, so are a few hundred to a thousand other people.

The only people near ski slopes are the ones who work there, unable to find a place to split housing cost . OR Squatters.


IMO 2-3 hrs from Denver is Idaho Springs, during rush hour and constantly getting worse


IF one were to find a place as you describe. You need to see the county records for what's platted there the next 5-25 years.
Will it stay rural, or does some developer have sections of land purchased for development ?

IF improvements come to the area. How much will taxes go up, or you be responsible for paying in to the road improvement , septic/sewer and water?

Honestly you want a lot of those, look out of state. NM, western Wy N. Az still have places you can buy land to drop an RV and be away from people in 30 min or less.

[Delfuego]

Depends on how you ski and what you want to ski too. If your just sliding, look near Ski Granby Ranch (Silverlight). It's also close to Winter Park. If you are a hammerhead you might need to be further away and near a big mountain (Crested Butte/Telluride/Silverton). Either way, property near Denver and local ski resorts is big bucks.

[glocktoberfest]

OK forget near ski slopes. what i'm really envisioning is something i can park an RV on and ride an ATV into BLM land from for hiking/hunting/camping. Thanks for the suggestions so far. If you can suggest some areas you'd recommend or even a realtor you have used that knows where to buy land up there, that'd be great too.

[DDT951]

OK forget near ski slopes. what i'm really envisioning is something i can park an RV on and ride an ATV into BLM land from for hiking/hunting/camping. Thanks for the suggestions so far. If you can suggest some areas you'd recommend or even a realtor you have used that knows where to buy land up there, that'd be great too.

Look at county zoning and land use laws.

Many of the mountain counties dont allow more than 30 days per camping and you can't store your RV on the land. Many also dont allow cabins without full certificates of occupancy to be built. That means well/water/sewer/septic/power/etc all have to be addressed.

[Delfuego]

Wyoming

[dorsum]

Wyoming

I would love to buy some land in the middle of nowhere Wyoming.

[Great-Kazoo]

I would love to buy some land in the middle of nowhere Wyoming.

Unfortunately the middle of nowhere Wyo is owned by either O&G interest, private ownership or BLM.

[Grant H.]

Unfortunately the middle of nowhere Wyo is owned by either O&G interest, private ownership or BLM.

Lots of rail road owned land there too...

[def90]

Most of the “camping” laws are based on continuous days in a row of use. If you plop your camper down they dont want you there more than 14 days without moving. If you put a camper pad on your property and come up for 2 or 3 days on the weekend once or twice a month and the RV comes and goes with you no one is going to complain.. well, unless that lot is in the middle of a subdivision or something. These laws are so that people dont build or inhabit non conforming structures as a permanent place of residence as well as to discourage squatters from filling up the woods.