An Acre-Plus With Nobody to Block the View
You have wanted a piece of ground with a little elevation and a lot of quiet, somewhere you can see weather coming and no one can build a wall across your horizon. This one hands you that for about the price of a decent used trailer.
Over an acre of high desert sits here at around sixty-six hundred feet, juniper and grass on a gentle slope with open views north and west. Build a house, set a manufactured home, or haul the camper out and get a feel for the place first, since camping and RVs are welcome here (a permit if you stay past a month). No HOA is writing the rules, and no clock is telling you when the cabin goes up.
You are near Sanders, a small stop off the old Route 66, in Apache County, which holds more tribal land than any county in the country, better than two-thirds of its whole area. It is old, storied ground out this way.
The honest part: this is off-grid, so plan on solar or a generator, a well or hauled water, and a septic, and a dirt road runs along the south edge.
This is old, wide country, and an acre of it under your own name is a fine place to start something new.