$15.5 million Colorado ranch comes with interesting feature — a dinosaur cemetery
A vast and beautiful property has landed on the real estate market in the Centennial State that will surely satisfy your dinosaur-loving inner child.
Three Springs Ranch, a 108,277-acre cattle ranch (with 21,034 deeded acres), is listed for $15.5 million and was once a hotspot to unearth dinosaur fossils — bones that are now on display at the town’s Dinosaur National Monument.
That town’s name? Yes, it’s Dinosaur, Colorado.
According to the Wall Street Journal, a 12-year-old by the name of India Wood dug up an allosaurus skeleton “the size of a turkey platter” on the property in 1979. Wood continued to hunt for fossils and “had 18 bones in her bedroom” by the early 1980s.
The ranch is also the home of preserved Native American petroglyphs, the listing says.
Sure, the land being a place to discover more fossils and artifacts is a huge draw, but there are other noteworthy aspects of Three Springs that will attract hunters as well.
“Three Springs Ranch is a historic cattle and big game hunting ranch notable for its large size, as well as its unique combination of multiple allocated hunting tags in a trophy unit where tags are difficult to draw,” the listing on Hall and Hall says.
“A common dilemma for hunting ranch buyers is whether to focus on areas with plentiful tags but few mature animals, or go for a trophy unit that has quality bulls and bucks, but limited hunting opportunities, even for landowners. Fortunately, Three Springs Ranch offers the best of both – a high-quality unit with a private tag allocation achieved through Colorado’s Ranching for Wildlife program.”
Other features include:
Two owner’s homes
Hunting cabin
Manager’s home
Employee house
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The listing is held by Brian Smith of Hall and Hall.
Dinosaur is near the Utah border, about 295 miles northwest of Denver.
This story was originally published October 10, 2022 at 2:06 PM with the headline "$15.5 million Colorado ranch comes with interesting feature — a dinosaur cemetery."