Elk Lake Lodge

The Ranch

The Elk Lake Lodge Ranch is a unique and beautiful 122± acres located just outside of Pagosa Springs, Colorado with year-round access. The ranch sits at 8,400± feet in elevation and provides you with stunning views of the Black Mountains and Pagosa Peak Mountain Ranges. This beautiful property also gives you access to an amazing 1,878,846± acres of public land right out the front door.

Sleeping 24 guests, the gorgeous 7240± lodge offers 8 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, and stunning lake and mountain views. The lodge provides a large open great room with multiple sitting and dining areas, and a kitchen equipped with two ovens, a dishwasher, sink, and refrigerators for your large group. The lodge runs off a well and city power with telephone and Wi-Fi capabilities.

This unbelievable property allows for a variety of uses and is currently zoned in agriculture use status. Just off the back porch of the lodge is a 10± acre spring-fed lake with 36 acre-feet of water rights and providing excellent pasture for horses or other livestock. Across from the lodge is flat acreage providing camping, parking, and recreational ground.

The ranch sits inside Game Management Unit 77, located in Archuleta, Hinsdale, La Plata, and Mineral Counties. Unit 77 is a very remote and forested area that is known for abounding elk herds and is an over-the-counter unit for bull elk, providing elk tags yearly for you to enjoy hunting right out your back door.

Surrounding Attributes

Wolf Creek Ski Area

Located in the San Juan and Rio Grande national forest between Pagosa Springs and South Fork, Colorado, Wolf Creek Ski Area is known to have “The Most Snow in Colorado”. Spanning across a high alpine ridge, Wolf Creek receives an average annual snowfall of 430 inches of natural powder and is known for its incredible hike-to terrain. Bonanza Bowl, Exhibition Bowl and the North Woods are accessible daily offering moderately steep through steep and rocky glade terrain. They offer advanced intermediate and expert only terrain with limited gated access. 20% of Wolf Creeks’ slopes are beginner, 35% intermediate, 25% advanced and 20% expert.

Pagosa Springs Golf Club

Pagosa Springs Golf Club is a fascinating 27 hole public resort located in beautiful Pagosa Springs. The club is surrounded by The San Juan Mountains allowing for astonishing views no matter where you are on the course. Do not get too lost in the views because each nine is unique and can challenge even the most avid golfers.

Pagosa Hot Springs

The Pagosa Springs feed mineral water to our 23 soaking pools, is the Guinness World Record title holder of The World’s Deepest Geothermal Hot Spring. Measured on August 20, 2011, The Mother Spring measured at an astounding 1,002 feet deep! However, no one really knows just how deep the hot spring is. Every time the spring has been measured, the plumb-line ran out before reaching the bottom.