A year when people are coveting more space indoors as well as room to move around outdoors is giving buyers a new way of looking at Woodland Park, 17 miles west of Colorado Springs.
Sarah Pelton with Front Range Real Estate Professionals, who has handled a dozen recent sales in Woodland Park and its surroundings, has a 2001 custom home that delivers both qualities there—a whopping 7,300 sq. feet of finished space that includes loads of options for WFH (work from home).
“I love Woodland Park,” the Colorado Springs-based agent says; noting that sales there have slipped now because inventory is so low, only around 25 homes on the market in a city of around 8,000. The town, which has been a satellite in the Springs’ tourism orbit since the late 1880s when the Colorado Midland Railway began hauling tourists in, doesn’t have a resort feel, Pelton says; more a bedroom community with a decidedly outdoor sports orientation.
You’ll see a 6-bedroom, 5-bath plan on a half-acre site in the town’s Paradise Estates neighborhood—lots of space that the sellers have used to accommodate their older parents moving back home. In addition to bedroom suites with possibilities for offices, there’s a large space that could be a conference area; or even an indoor sports court. The home and its lot have big views of Pikes Peak. The turnoff from U.S. 24 on the way into Woodland Park is at the light beside the Walgreens.
