Marriott Circle, Fort Garland, CO 81133
Burned timber still stands on this lot, but walk it in the fall and the aspen coming up through it has gone gold, with a handful of big ponderosas that rode out the fire still green overhead. It's 1.36 acres behind the gate at Forbes Park, 9,054 feet up in the Sangre de Cristos, with dirt road frontage on two sides and cabins already rebuilt on either side of you. The adjoining 2.1 acres is available on its own, so you can take one or both.
The Mountain Is Already Growing Itself Back
Most people who want a place in the Colorado mountains spend about twenty years wanting it. Somebody else always gets there first, and whatever's left runs more than the house they're already paying for. This one is different for an honest reason: the Spring Fire came through Forbes Park in 2018, and this pocket of it, nine thousand feet up in the Sangre de Cristos, is still busy growing back.
Picture the cabin on the high corner of the lot, gold aspen coming up around it every fall, a couple of big ponderosas that rode out the fire standing over it (bark still scorched, needles still green), and a wood stove earning its keep in January. Places on both sides of you have already been rebuilt, so you're not the pioneer out here, just the next one in. The kids learn to read tracks in the snow, and you learn which neighbor owns the tractor.
Fort Garland sits half an hour down the mountain, and it's a real old army post, put up in 1858, with Kit Carson commanding it for a year and a half starting in 1866. Blanca Peak stands on the skyline for most of that drive.
The plain version is this: you're buying ground that burned. It also means light gets all the way down now, your sightlines are open, and aspen is about the fastest thing in these mountains to come back (on this lot it's already head-high).
Country like this doesn't stay knocked down for long. The good part is you get to be here for the growing back.
Is this your kind of land
A cabin homestead in the Colorado high country with well water, septic, and a flat build site under the gated Forbes Park community.
Not a fit for mobile homes, RVs, tent camping, or anyone avoiding HOA approval, annual dues, and a 600 sq ft minimum dwelling requirement.
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 one is a cabin lot with the hard part already decided. Costilla County zones it Estate Residential, which allows one single-family home on a land use permit: stick built, modular on a permanent foundation, or a 1976-or-newer manufactured home, with the Forbes Park architectural committee signing off on your plans first. The finished dwelling has to run at least 600 square feet, which is what rules out a true tiny home, and mobile homes are off the table. There's no grid up here, so you plan on solar, a well or hauled water into a cistern, and a county-approved septic before the dwelling goes up. The fire opened the canopy, which means the solar math works better here than it does under heavy timber and you can see what you're building toward. Camping is short-term only, so this one rewards the buyer who's ready to build rather than one looking for a place to park.
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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