Located in the stunning Blackfoot River Valley of western Montana, this fully equipped 160-acre ranch sits at the base of the Bob Marshall Wilderness complex on a county maintained, dead-end road. (Click on photos for larger image.)
In addition to the 1,456 square-foot ranch house, there is a lovely guest cabin with covered porch, a solar dome 26' greenhouse for true year-round gardening, three large and well-maintained horse/cattle barns, an 8-bay vehicle/equipment shed (96' x 32'), a 32' x 32' cottage with 12' covered porch, a 15' x 20' cottage with a half-bath, and several other smaller buildings. But that's not all - there's a 70' x 130' indoor arena (big enough to park semi-trucks inside with room to spare) and a 100' x 32' hay barn, too.
Priced at $695,000.
All buildings were constructed since 1998, and most were built since 2004. The main home, guest cabin and one other large cottage have wood stoves. There are four wells on the property - three regular ones and one hand-pump well for "just in case."
The solar dome greenhouse - made by Growing Spaces - makes gardening in the middle of a Rocky Mountain winter entirely feasible, and fresh greens from the garden in February were a real treat. In that photo of the greenhouse, taken on a cold January day, you can see that it was already so warm inside the dome that the automatic vent on the top of the greenhouse had opened!
Fully equipped for small-scale ranching, this property is "ready to go" for horses and/or cattle, with 7 automatic watering units supplying water to the barn corrals and the 160 acres completely cross-fenced into more than a dozen different paddocks for rotational grazing. All the fencing you could ever need is already in the ground. The ranch has a grazing plan by the county extension office that can support 10 cow-calf pairs, or a smaller number of cattle while grazing other livestock. There is an irrigation water right of 7.5 cfs from a ditch with a head gate on the North Fork of the Blackfoot.
With its remote location, the ranch offers privacy, quiet, and seclusion while still providing easy access to Montana Hwy 200 three miles away. The ranch is just 60 miles east of Missoula and 70 miles northwest of the state capital, Helena - close enough if you need anything, far enough away if you don't. But the distance doesn't mean being cut off -- the property has excellent high-speed DSL Internet access through a great local telephone co-op, so you can run your own business from this spot. A community owned power co-op that puts its customers first provides the electric service. If you want to go off-grid, there is plenty of sun in the Big Sky overhead, even in winter, and a decent amount of wind, too.
With all this land and all these buildings, property taxes are only $2,000 a year. That's right. $2,000. Welcome to Montana.
Contact:
John Keller
Clearwater Montana Properties
Phone: (406) 677-7032
Email: JohnKeller@Blackfoot.net
