The 780-acre Emerald Ridge Ranch, the largest remaining property in close proximity to Steamboatap southern city limits, is being offered for sale for the first time in its history at $8.95 million.
The entrance to the property is 3.5 miles south of Mount Werner Road, and the acreage begins west of Routt County Road 14.
The ranch’s original owner is the Lufkin family, which, at one time, owned of most of the South Valley, according to broker Ren Martyn of Steamboat Sotheby’s International Realty.
Herbert C. Lufkin established the property in 1919 and sold it to his son, Don Lufkin, in the 1950s, who, in turn, sold it to his nephew, Doug Scott, in 1994. Scott still owns the property, along with his sons, through an LLC.
Currently, only a small, 576-square-foot, two-bedroom cabin is developed on the property, which has historically been used as summer grazing lands.
Nearly 500 acres of the property is included in conservation easements through the Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust.
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