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In a year when mountain resorts with year-round amenities are catching on with buyers, you have plenty of time to check out Granby Ranch’s trails, fishing, biking and other amenities – but if you want to give your family the ski experience, you need to get going. Base Camp One, right beside Ski Granby Ranch’s base lodge and grill, will give you two adult passes good for any day of its final two weekends of the season, just for touring its last eleven ski-in/ski-out condos. They’ve been dropped in price an average of $50,000 since Jan. 1.
That includes another $20,000 knocked off the price of nine one-and-two-bedroom units timed to the ski season close. “We’re ready to leave,” says Greg Finch of Base Camp One’s builder, Dundee Resort Development. Dundee saw its final 3-bedroom condos literally fly off the shelf when it cut prices just before New Year’s (there’re two left, from $399,000). With this newest price cut, one 2-bedroom ski-in/out unit is now under $250,000; one ski-in/out 1-bedroom is only $172,500. That lowest priced unit, with click-in/out access to three base lifts and the lodge, is also wrapped in four-season amenities that owners use as much as the skiing. “That’s what we like best about it,” says Susan Barnhart of Centennial, who with husband Chuck bought a one-bedroom in 2010 — and have hosted a bunch of friends there each Thanksgiving since. They’ll do it again this year – but now in a roomy 3-bedroom unit that they picked up at a close-out price. The Barnharts, who have grandkids aged 8 and 5, report the same thing as other Base Camp One residents: that Base Camp One is a decidedly better ski experience for families, where kids make friends that they link up with during repeat visits, and where they get to explore more on their own. Meanwhile, the couple has gotten to know other Base Camp One owners – around the firepit, and over après-ski evenings at Granby Ranch Grill, fifty yards from their condo. That family-oriented year-around experience is drawing a dedicated skier to Granby Ranch, according to marketing director Lisa Craig, who saw the resort log its biggest-ever February last month. “A lot of people flock to us because of our ski school,” she adds, noting that Granby Ranch’s ‘direct-to-parallel’ program – skipping the old snowplow method — is as big a hit with parents as kids. She has special events on the slopes lined up for these final weekends – live music on the mountain tomorrow; and the Bunny skiing over Easter. You can get the same experience as Base Camp One residents, wrapping up the day at Granby Ranch Grill (Chef Popovich’s Saturday night special is chicken almondine with amaretto sauce on a quinoa base). And you can check out the other amenities that surround those final Base Camp One homes, including ones you’ll use until next ski season: 18-hole Golf Granby Ranch course (“scenic and challenging,” says Susan Barnhart; four foursomes are included along with full family ski passes as part of your annual HOA dues); the bike trails and hiking through vast open space in the 5,000-acre community; fishing on the Fraser River; and The Ranch community center – so close to these homes that “the pool and hot tub feel like they’re ours,” Barnhart adds. The ski-free offer requires touring the final units – all priced to close-out these two final weekends. Base Camp One is 90 minutes from Denver: From I-70 take U.S. 40 west, 15 miles past Winter Park to Village Road (before the light), then right 2 miles to Granby Ranch Real Estate Center. WHERE: Ski free at Granby Ranch for touring Base Camp One; closeout of final ski-in/out condos including two 3-bedrooms; year-round amenities, golf, bike/Nordic trails, fishing lease; Fannie Mae approved; 2 ski passes to new customers who tour. 300 Base Camp Cir., Granby; from I-70 take U.S. 40 west 43 mi. (15 mi. past Winter Park) to Village Rd., right 2 mi. to Granby Ranch Real Estate Center on left9 a.m. – 5 p.m. PHONE: 970-887-5250 WEB:
