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What Estes Park, Boulder and Evergreen Have in Common

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on August 27, 2008
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Bear Warning

Fair Bear Warning

This isn’t one of those jokes that starts with a rabbi, a priest, and a minister walking into a bar. It does involve bears, however.

Into the Wild (Kind of)
When relocating to Estes Park, Boulder, Evergreen, Lyons, and other towns with lots of lurking wildlife, new residents find themselves charged with the task of making slight lifestyle changes to accommodate their more rugged environment.

To wit…
The Bear Wagon recently made the rounds in the South Boulder neighborhood, or SoBo as we’ve been known to call it. It’s mission: educate residents and renters on what kinds of attractants can lure bears and other wildlife, such as mountain lions, into the neighborhood, thus endangering people and the bears themselves.

Why?
Bears who are found making a nuisance of themselves in residential areas are transported back into the wilderness, unless they become repeat offenders, in which case they are eventually destroyed. To prevent such a lose-lose situation, residents in areas with high wildlife populations are encouraged to leave their trash containers inside garages and sheds, or to bear-proof them.

The Bear Basics
Leaving food out is always a no-no, and in towns farther into the mountains, such as Nederland, it’s recommended that residents take extra precautions to protect not only their disposables, but their domestic animals and livestock as well.

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Estes Park Accolades

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on August 24, 2008
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Estes Park, CO

View of Estes Park looking west

In the spring of 2008 Estes Park homes and property owners were thrilled to learn that the town had won four different and important honors as a top place to spend a day or a vacation. They were: The Weather Channel, Kids Pages, the Greeley Tribune and TripAdvisor.com, all of which touted Estes as a top travel destination. It would stand to reason, then, that Estes Park is a pretty nice place to live, too. (Here’s a map of where the 100 newest Estes Park home listings are.)

Geographically, it’s not far from Fort Collins, which was named as one of Money Magazine’s best places to live in 2006. And with the Estes Park climate, amenities, and accessibility to Boulder to the south, Fort Collins and Windsor to the north, and Loveland and Greeley to the east, Estes Park lives at the residential intersection of outdoor recreation, the arts, and business. By the way, how many towns can say they’re home to a 14-thousand-foot-peak and a national park (Rocky Mountain National Park) full of the flora and fauna Colorado is known for?

Take a spin by some Estes Park homes and real estate, and see its surrounding areas for a virtual taste of what the press and visitors have known since before the (in)famous Stanley Hotel broke ground: that when it comes to accessible mountain living, Estes Park marks the spot.

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Castle Rock Star: Castle Pines Village

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Castle Rock Castle Pines Village

An aerial view of the 80108 zip code with active listings

Today there are over one hundred listings in Castle Pines Village for sale, which makes it one of Colorado’s most active neighborhoods; it’s a top Colorado neighborhood with land offerings, single-family homes, patio homes, and condos/townhomes galore in sub-neighborhoods including Castle Pines North Castle Pines Village Filing, Castle Pines Village proper, and more. Priced higher than the Colorado median, the median price here is $1.2 M, the minimum price is in the high 400s, and the maximum price is up over $6M.

Castle Pines Village is known for its natural scenery, its access to both Denver and Colorado Springs via I-25, and its wide-open spaces. Looking for a gigantic custom home with acreage? You’ll find it in Castle Pines Village. Looking for horse property large enough for multiple barns, dwellings, and income facilities? Ditto. Single-family homes the size of small hotels are fairly common here, but you’ll also find more traditional smaller homes that boast spectacular mountain views from every window. Luxury is the watchword here, in all sizes and configurations.

For numerous other hot offerings in areas near and around Castle Pines Village:

Liking the Sound of Larkspur

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on July 16, 2008
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Near Pike National Forest is a beautiful out-of-the-way place between Denver and Colorado Springs that bursts wide open with activity every summer. It’s as pleasant as it sounds: Larkspur, Colorado. It’s a place as quaint as its name, and is home to the Colorado Renaissance Festival during the summer months, and also the full-time wildlife and human residents who adore their privacy, quiet, and mountain views.

Larkspur
Larkspur is the common name for plants in the genus Delphinium
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Along the I-25 corridor between Denver and Colorado Springs is where you’ll find this quiet, small, and intimate community of about 400 full-time residents called Larkspur. Never been? It’s not too late. Take this virtual, pre-tour of what’s at Larkspur before you go.

Larkspur Colorado Neighborhoods
Perry Park– Gorgeous, huge custom homes with spectacular views and stunning natural surroundings in the 80118 zip code. Land from the low-to-mid 100s; single-family homes in the $6M range. To learn more about what’s where, map Perry Park neighborhood

Sage Port– Newer custom homes with lots of surrounding space. Land priced from the ’60s; single-family homes from $250,000 and up. Map the Sage Port neighborhood.

Sage Port, The Hidden Forest– Near the grounds of the Golf Club at Bear Dance, there are fewer homes for sale here, with some homes scheduled for completion this year. Easy access to I-25, Hidden Forest is ten minutes from schools and Castle Rock. Map the Hidden Forest neighborhood.

Metes And Bounds– Between I-25 and highway 83 are stunning custom homes with acreage, and multi-million dollar price tags. On the west side of I-25, you’ll find horse properties in the 400-500s. Map the Metes and Bounds neighborhood.

Of course that’s not all; there are more than 300 active Larkspur real estate listings today, which you can easily browse and sort through at COhomefinder any time you like.

Deja Vu in Denver, Boulder, and the US-36 Corridor

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The Petroleum Club on 17th Street in downtown Denver was a private club for those in Colorado’s oil industry, and was the place to be if you were a Colorado oilman in the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s. Then in the ’70s and ’80s…not so much. Its home, the 37th and 38th floors of 555 17th Street, became Qwest Tower after having been Anaconda Tower.

In the ’90s, along with the transformation of Petroleum to Pinnacle, came a new kind of oil rush: The dot-com era. With the new economy rearing its silicon head, all kinds of businesses and people were flocking to homes in Denver, homes in Boulder, and the towns in between, a region some called The Wired West, and others called the Silicon Summit. The US-36 corridor and the towns of Westminster, Louisville, Lafayette, Longmont, and Broomfield were bustling with business venture funding and real estate activity. The Petroleum Club became the Pinnacle Club, a private social club and facility for businesspeople and entrepreneurs. And then…not so much. The Pinnacle Club closed its doors in 2005.

That brings us to today, where we’re seeing a kind of convergence of the old and new. With what some call the Web 2.0 movement, a lot of the same high-tech conversations are picking up where they left off. ConocoPhillips is opening a new global technology center and corporate learning center at the Sun Microsystems/StorageTek site in Louisville. The learning center will handle research and development of renewable energy and high tech carbon fuels recovery. Grand Hyatt renovated the Pinnacle Club and opened it to the public.

And the old Petroleum Club is now the new Petroleum Club, and moved down the street, to 1325 Glenarm Place, downtown Denver.