The 2,564-acre Rock Ridge Ranch property is located in Moffat County between Meeker and Craig. The property consists of sagebrush shrublands, montane meadows, rock outcroppings, and gambel oak shrubland. Exceptional wildlife habitat is provided for bald eagle,...
This 72-acre property near Bailey is adjacent to the Woodward family’s home ranch, Deer Valley Park Association, a Centennial Ranch that was previously protected with COL. The Woodwards operate Hi-Altitude Cattle, LLC, raising beef on their ranch and other leased...
This nearly 1,000-acre property in the Town of Greeley has now been forever protected for public open space and recreation. An intensive public engagement period is shaping future uses, which include multi-use trails with scenic bluffs and prairies, central gathering...
Opportunities to acquire land for public access are extremely rare in the San Luis Valley. COL collaborated with a private landowner to conserve 398 acres adjacent to Rito Seco Park. Now conserved, the landowner has sold the land to Costilla County to expand the park....
Texas Creek Ranch is north of Westcliffe in the Wet Mountain Valley. It includes two miles of Texas Creek and associated senior water rights among rolling grasslands, riparian wetlands, and aspen groves. A small herd of elk camps out on the property all winter. The...
