A 153-acre private sporting ranch just outside of Meeker, Colorado, is headed to auction with no reserve over the course of six days beginning on Oct. 12
Known as 66 Ranch, the property, which is listed for $8.475 million, is in a rural, undeveloped region of northwest Colorado known for its big-game hunting and fly-fishing along White River.
“One of the big things with this property is that membership to Elk Creek Ranch conveys with the sale,” said Callahan Kelm, project manager and auction representative for Sotheby’s Concierge Auctions, which is handling the sale.
The nearby Elk Creek Ranch offers 30 miles of fly-fishing along White River and Elk Creek and “15,000 acres that are solely for Elk Creek members.”
“This is some of the best hunting and fishing in the West,” he said. “You have all of the amenities of a big-game sporting ranch without some of the headaches that go along with running it yourself.”
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At the heart of the 66 Ranch compound is a 7,000-square-foot house that was built in 2013. It features four en-suite bedrooms along with high ceilings, wide windows with mountain views, rough-hewn stone walls and rustic exposed beams.
Outbuildings and amenities include a one-bedroom guesthouse, a river camp, a party barn, a ranch shop, a fire pit and a 4-acre pond. 66 Ranch also has one-plus mile of frontage along both banks of the White River, with many side channels, deep runs and pools that are ideal for fly-fishing, according to the listing.
Mr. Kelm says one of the “best things” about the house is that the ground-floor primary bedroom suite is “completely separate from the three bedrooms upstairs.”
“We’ve had significant interest so far,” he said. “People are flying in to see it.”
Elk Creek Ranch, which is about a 15-minute drive from 66 Ranch, is a “private community that people buy into,” Mr. Kelm said. “Most members have one-acre lots.”
The membership that conveys with this sale is a “pretty big deal,” he said, and “some of the empty lots there are going for $2 million to $3 million.”
The big game available to hunters includes deer, moose, elk, antelope, mountain lions and bears, he said.
66 Ranch is owned by Kevin McCoy, 60, who lives on a ranch with his wife, Christine, on a ranch outside of Whichita, Kansas. He bought the land in 2011 and built the house in 2013.
“My original vision was to have an easily managed gentleman’s ranch,” he said. “We loved having some place to go that was a little bit off-season when it got hot here.”
“66 Ranch has private hunting and fishing and I was able to put in my own amenities to share with family and friends, and the property delivered that for a number of years,” said Mr. McCoy, who is in the oil and gas business and was president of the board of Elk Creek Ranch for six years.
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He and his wife decided to sell because “it’s also a lot of work and the kids have careers now and we found ourselves not being able to justify the use of the property like I think we should,” he said. “We decided it was time to simplify.”
The property, which is on County Road 8 in Meeker, was listed for sale with Daniel Carter of Mirr Ranch Group LLC from August 2020, for $8.9 million, to January 2022, with a price cut to its current $8.475 million in September 2021.
66 Ranch is seven miles from the town of Meeker and six miles from a private jet-accessible airport. The Colorado communities of Vail, Steamboat Springs and Aspen are all within a two-hour drive, according to the listing.
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