When residents at Pelican Lake Ranch, 40 minutes north of DIA, arrive home to their 1- to 3-acre sites at night, they look up to a sky full of stars that homeowners in typical Denver suburbs never, ever see — the Milky Way, constellations and a shooting star now and again.
Thatap just the start of why you’d want to visit a one-of-a-kind master-planned community on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 1-2, with plenty to see including two new-builds, both of them ranches ready now, a resale home, and big sites for custom building.
“Itap nice and quiet like Windsor was 25 years ago,” says builder John Holman of Holman Homes, who’s building a ranch for his wife Cori and himself in Pelican Lake Ranch, while getting ready to start two other for-sale ranches expected to come in at the $500,000 to $550,000 range.
On Pelican Lake Ranch’s big sites, Holman is doing a 2,700-square-foot main level with a walk-out basement, but he’s also adding living quarters for Cori’s father.
“Itap a great place to do that; itap impossible to in neighborhoods that don’t have these acreage lots,” he says.
“This is where you can escape the traffic in favor of a sunrise over the lake or a sunset over the mountains,” says Tina Wernsman, who will meet you Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 1-2, 15 miles east of I-25’s Longmont/Firestone exit, to show you a prairie style three-bedroom/four-bath resale home. It shows 2,818 finished feet, priced at $499,900, on 2.83 acres — about 25 times the size of lots that builders are showing in subdivisions at this price range closer into town.
She also has two new-builds to show, including a ranch by New Expressions Homes, with a four-car attached garage, ready to move in at $450,000, and another by King Family Builders at $550,000.
Wernsman also has the inside scoop on three resale homes that will be coming on the market in Pelican Lake Ranch early this spring, including a walk-out ranch thatap perfect for a horse owner — with outbuilding, designer landscaping and views.
You can also pick a homesite (they’re from as low as the $85,000s) and create a custom home, working with Holman or one of Pelican Lake Ranch’s other participating builders. Finished prices, Wernsman says, typically come in $100,000 lower than comparably sized new homes on acreage elsewhere.
Wernsman adds that residents rave about the quality of their friendships in the neighborhood — fostered by a range of master-planned amenities already in place, including a nice community pool, park, tennis courts, a riding arena, 8 miles of riding trails and a stocked fishing lake. Residents pay less for those features than you may be paying in HOA fees at a large-scale community closer in, currently only $300 per year.
All homes receive district water, gas, electric and paved streets. Residents are 35 minutes from Westminster/Interlocken, 45 minutes from downtown Denver.
Take I-25 to Colorado 66 (the second Longmont exit) and head east 8 miles to U.S. 85, turn north a mile to County 32, then east 6 miles to County 39 and north. From the I-76 corridor, you can shorten the route by exiting taking I-76 north to Hudson and heading west on 52 to County 41.
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