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Cardinal Drive, Bonanza, OR 97623
At 5,041 feet, you're sitting a good nine hundred above the town of Bonanza, and there's no HOA up here with opinions about your siding. It's 2.46 acres in Klamath Falls Forest Estates, off Cardinal Drive, with Fremont-Winema National Forest ground starting roughly two miles out. Nobody's starting a build clock on you here, so the cabin happens on your schedule instead of somebody else's calendar.
The Cabin Gets Built When You Say So
You've had the plans in your head for years now. Nothing fancy. A wood stove, a porch pointed at the sunrise, a spot out back for the truck and the gear. What you've never had is the dirt. Every lot you've priced came with either an architectural committee or a clock that started running the day you signed, and neither one leaves much room for a man who takes his time on purpose.
This one runs 2.46 acres in Klamath Falls Forest Estates, off Cardinal Drive at 5,041 feet. Nobody's going to start a clock on you, so your first season here can be a tent, a fire, and a few long walks along the property lines figuring out where the morning sun lands before you pour anything permanent (concrete has a way of making decisions for you). Frame a wall the summer you can afford to frame a wall. And if some years all you do is park a camper out here for a few weeks, the ground won't hold it against you.
Bonanza sits about twenty minutes south, and Klamath Falls is roughly fifty minutes out when you need a real grocery run. Bonanza took its name from the Spanish word for prosperity, hung on the place because of the big springs the first settlers found there, and those springs still run through a city park in the middle of town.
There's no power line coming up this way, so you'll be on solar and a generator while you build, which is one utility bill you'll never have to open again.
Land like this doesn't ask what you do for a living. It just asks when you're coming back.
Is this your kind of land
A homestead, off-grid cabin, or remote retreat where you drill a well and build without HOA rules or neighbors watching.
Not a fit for tent camping, full-time RV living, or anyone needing municipal water and power at the property line.
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 lot first. Klamath County's R-2 Rural Residential zoning allows one dwelling per parcel, and a site-built single-family home, a manufactured home, and the accessory buildings that come with them are all permitted outright. At 2.46 acres you're over the two-acre minimum, so the lot itself isn't the obstacle. Water would be a drilled well or hauled into a holding tank, waste is an onsite septic system that has to be approved before the building permit is issued, and with no power line coming up this way you'd run on solar and a generator. What makes it a homestead lot rather than just a legal one is the pace. There's no time limit on when you build, no HOA, and no POA, so you can camp on it, walk it through a couple of seasons, and start the house the year you're actually ready to start the house.
A plain-language summary of how Klamath County's Rural 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.
Klamath County decides what is allowed, not us. Confirm current rules with Planning & Zoning before you buy.
What it costs
Pay it off early, any time, with no penalty.
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