Marriott Circle, Fort Garland, CO 81133
Burned timber lies across this slope like somebody dropped a woodpile from the sky, and young aspen is coming up gold right through it. It's 1.70 acres at 9,220 feet behind the Forbes Park gate, with a few ponderosas that rode out the 2018 fire and a fourteener on the skyline. Hunting stays outside the gate, but this is a cabin site built for somebody who spends every fall chasing elk.
A Hunting Camp With the Timber Already Down
Every fall you plan the hunt around somebody else's place: a buddy's cabin, a motel in town, a wall tent you pitch and strike before you ever feel settled. What you've wanted is a spot of your own up high, and good Colorado mountain ground usually costs more than the truck and the rifle put together. This lot is within reach because the 2018 Spring Creek Fire went through Forbes Park and took most of the pine on this slope with it.
What's there now is the part worth seeing. Young aspen is coming up gold through the deadfall, a few big ponderosas made it through, and the open ground gives you a long look across to the peaks. Put the cabin where the view lines up, cut your firewood from what's already down (a winter's worth, and then some), and run your season from here. Hunting stays outside the gate, but this corner of the Sangre de Cristos is elk, deer, and turkey country, and burns like this one tend to draw game in to browse the new growth.
The fourteener holding up the skyline to the northwest is Blanca Peak, which the Navajo call Sisnaajiní, the sacred mountain of the east (it was drawing eyes a long time before Forbes Park ever had a gate).
Here's the trade. This is 1.70 acres of downed timber and standing snags, not a shady stand of trees, so your first few weekends go to a chainsaw and a trailer before anything else. The price already reflects that.
Elk were working these slopes long before the fire came through, and they'll be at it long after, and now you could have a porch to watch for them from.
Is this your kind of land
A secluded homestead or off-grid cabin within gated elk country, with well and septic permits available and hunting-fishing access nearby.
Not a fit for mobile homes, RVs, or tent camping, which the HOA restricts. This parcel requires a permanent structure and $290 annual HOA dues.
On the ground
The red outline on the map is approximate. It is drawn from county records to show roughly where the lot sits, not a surveyed boundary.
Corner coordinates are approximate. Verify against the recorded plat before relying on them.
The record
† From county maps and records. Check with the county, or ask your Land Specialist what we have on file.
Dig deeper
Water: On-site: None. Options: Well or Haul. Would be a well, water haul and holding tank or other similar option
Sewer / septic: On-site: None. Options: Septic.
This is a build-a-cabin lot with a hunter's address. It's 1.70 acres inside gated Forbes Park, zoned Estate Residential under Costilla County, with the Forbes Park ECC signing off on your plans before you break ground. You can go stick-built, modular, or manufactured so long as the finished dwelling runs at least six hundred square feet; a mobile home is the one thing off the table. It is off-grid, so plan on solar or a generator, a well or hauled water, and a septic, and plan on clearing burned deadfall around your building site first. Hunting stays outside the gate, but this corner of the Sangre de Cristos is elk, deer, and turkey country, so it makes a natural gated base camp for the fall.
A plain-language summary of how Costilla County's Estate Residential zone reads, current to October 2026. It is not a determination of what you may do here, and it is not legal or land-use advice.
Costilla County decides what is allowed, not us. Confirm current rules with Planning & Zoning before you buy.
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