In addition to offering a wide variety of desperately needed housing oriented to the average household, simply not available in the developable land starved Western Colorado, Bluestone will also serve as the commercial hub for the south DeBeque Valley, cutting current required commuting distances, now 40 miles round trip, or more, for shopping and services.  The commercial ventures wi(...)

The higher elevation area in the southwest corner of Bluestone Ridge Ranch adjacent to sister ranch, Canyons at DeBeque Ranch, is characterized by rolling ridges and valleys. Development in this area will be concentrated primarily in the hidden valleys with construction on steeper slopes and ridges minimized. The preserved slopes and ridges offer additional open space protecting important vie(...)

In general, Bluestone Ridge Ranch surrounds concentrated areas of housing and commercial called PUD’s (Planned Unit Developments). The PUD tracts are divided into three residential zone districts, a commercial zone district, the far larger Ranch acreage's, a ranch land/open space district. The residential PUD districts encourage three levels of intensity of housing ranging from lower density (...)

The difference between a development with homes including adjoining green belts and a large ranch with well planned concentrated clusters of residential units is very distinct.  Bluestone Ridge Ranch and The Canyons at Debeque Ranch are unique mixtures of historicl preservation, ranch, agricultural, open space, wild lands and Planned Unit Developments.  The concept is applied concentrated tra(...)

Over the course of my multi -faceted ranch and real-estate career I have been called many things, some of which cannot be printed here. Predominantly, however, Rancher and Developer are the two most oft employed descriptions. No doubt, earlier in my career, twenties, and thirties when I left the ranch, I was a developer. But since the eighties, I have been a rancher. On the cutting edge, to b(...)