Sowards Chavez Creek at Chama
695 pristine acres, heavily watered by live creek and feeder creek. High elevation with open meadows mixed among good timber. This is where Aspens quake and Grouse coveys flee herds of Elk grazing toward them. Hungry Trout take grasshoppers floating on smooth stream topwater. And yes, this is heavenly, superb hunting! Have you heard of the Mundy Buck? Just google it.
For the 2024 season, sellers are offering 2 Bull tags (at $5000 each) to prospective buyers of the property. GMU 4 Elk Hunting in the EPLUS program has a September Bow season with open season for rifle any 5 days between October 1 and December 31st. This 695-acres expects to be awarded 2 Bull Tags, 1 Antlerless Tag, and 1 Bow Tag each year going forward. These are ranch-only authorizations. Otherwise, landowners tend to draw their choice of deer hunts with applications entered by March 1st each year. There are also huntab...
For the 2024 season, sellers are offering 2 Bull tags (at $5000 each) to prospective buyers of the property. GMU 4 Elk Hunting in the EPLUS program has a September Bow season with open season for rifle any 5 days between October 1 and December 31st. This 695-acres expects to be awarded 2 Bull Tags, 1 Antlerless Tag, and 1 Bow Tag each year going forward. These are ranch-only authorizations. Otherwise, landowners tend to draw their choice of deer hunts with applications entered by March 1st each year. There are also huntable populations of Bear, Turkey, and Grouse.
The gorgeous property sits at an average elevation of 10,500 feet, protected from people pressure by a long, pretty road and several locked gates. Many of the meadows "seep" and feel sub-irrigated. Flowing streams, colorful wildflowers, and exotic mushrooms reward a visitor and bring out the explorer in anyone. And the variety of terrain and the elevation changes make the property feel huge. You can't cover it all even given a few days of walking. NO CONSERVATION EASEMENT. NO COVENANTS OR RESTRICTIONS. Some of the boundaries are fenced but not all. Historically a grazing lease has included this acreage with other adjoining lands and a buyer might want to continue that; or one may want to fence the other boundaries and fence out cattle.
In the broker's Suburban, it is about an hour, picnic-style ride from blacktop highway (just south of the town of Chama) onto the property. In the broker's Polaris side-by-side, the ride in is a good 20 minutes shorter. The wildlife viewing on the approach road going in often starts ones blood pumping, and the vast views back at Heron Lake will drop your jaw as well.
Some other private property owners do have legal passage across the main two-track road crossing the northeast side of the property, but there is no public land accessed here. This is large-parcel, private-landowner territory. The subject lies northeast of the Mundy Ranch; its northernmost point touches 30,000+ acres of Jicarilla Apache Land; and its character is wild and free.
As a ranch broker, speaking again to the wildlife factor, it is all here like no place I've ever been! Are you a solitary angler? Do you prefer to control your hunting grounds? Do you wish to build an off-the-grid cabin in the most private of places? Well, someone's search ends here. Someone's dream come true.
