Ranches of the West Inc. :: Colorado
Colorado Ranch Projects

The Front Range of Colorado is a teaming anthill of humanity. Pockets of good land planning are, unfortunately, isolated oasis’s in a desert of mostly crammed and thoughtless development.
Although a great deal of Ranches of the West’s early Colorado experience with land planning, management and resource improvement originate along the Front Range, currently our interests lie and are now focused on the still pristine western slope.

There is a magic corridor that sweeps from North Park along the North Platte to the Wyoming line and the Little Snake River. It continues down across Rangeley and Meeker and the White River Basin, descending south across the mighty Colorado, encompassing the span of the Grand Mesa. Further south and east are the stunning peaks of the Maroon Bells, San Juan’s, Ouray and UnCompagrahe.

The Western Slope enjoys stunning aspen covered mountain flanks and startling white fourteen thousand footers. The landscape is dotted with enclaves of development here and there. The ever expanding and much needed twinkling night lights of drill rigs searching far beneath the rocky crust of the earth for power and energy fueling America wink hopefully in red rock canyons.

While some of our places in this neck of the woods are and will remain remote enhanced and preserved ranch properties, special challenges arise on those great ranches located by fate within the arch of the human footprint. Catering to need and demand, while keeping history, ranch operations and the ‘old west’ flavor alive is a special challenge. This portion of the site, then, will afford you the flavor of this great state perched somewhere between lassos and spurs, to fine dining in rarified atmospheres of resorts and big cities that juxtapose fully the importance of
wild-lands, agriculture and ranch lands preservation with a human element. We hope our thoughts, concepts and real life activities pique your interest and thought. 


Gateway Land and Development - 970-331-6611
ERA - 970-984-8600
or visit us at www.bluestoneridgeranch.com