Enjoy a full-time mountain vacation make this beautiful, accessible property your year-round home. Enjoy your own sweeping, ponderosa-lined meadow, wildflowers and abundant wildlife, and live in a close-knit mountain community a short 15 minutes from Laporte or 25 minutes from Old Town Fort Collins. Pristine custom home w/ open floor plan on ~12.6 well-maintained acres. This vintage property and original barn and home are the historic Dilkey Ranch. This country elegant home was added to in 1979 and extensively remodeled (entire home except 2 bedrooms and one bath taken added in 1979) down to the studs, rewired, replumbed) and 1,100 SF added during the 1996-98 remodel/addition. Home is 3,300 SF with 3 bedrooms plus an office that could be converted to a 4th bedroom, and has an attached 2-car garage. There are 2 bathrooms, large separate dining room, spacious living room, expansive great room with eating counter, entry foyer, and hall w/ laundry off the master bedroom. Master bedroom has separate his and hers closets. The to die for gourmet kitchen and pantry was designed by food service professional with a large center island and sleek, stainless appliances. Granite counters and custom cabinets throughout kitchen! Examples of special cabinet features include flip-outs, 3 recipe card drawers, two book shelves, pull outs, two deep dry goods drawers with tin inserts, and additional features too numerous to mention. The large kitchen Subzero 48 refrigerator Dual fuel Thermador 4 burner gas stove with gas char griddle in center and an electric oven Thermador exhaust hood w/ 2 infrared heat lamps Thermador electric 2 ceramic cook-top in island GE wall microwave oven above a second large Kitchenaid electric wall oven Asko stainless steel dishwasher 2 stainless steel sinks (triple w/ garbage disposal and single w/ garbage disposal in island). A massive native moss rock walkway leads from the parking area to a large flagstone patio which extends to the front door. A smaller interlocking brick patio in located in the rear of home and there is a second floor outside deck above the garage for substantial outdoor entertaining space. Oversized 2 car attached garage. Special features: Easy year around access to Fort Collins (driveway connects to Rist Canyon Road with all-weather, 365 day access), or other foothills locations. Wood fireplace is plumbed for gas, hot water propane heat w/ attached water maker, ceiling fans in great room and two bedrooms, tile and carpet floors and high cathedral ceilings throughout. Great room and one bedroom ceiling are tongue and groove beetle pine the rest are textured drywall. Master bedroom suite at one end of home and other two bedrooms at the other end of the home offers substantial privacy. Cedar siding, Marvin windows, and asphalt shingle roof. Outside hot tub on concrete slab. Large hay meadow produces ~ 200 or more 50# bales of hay in a typical year. 3 outbuildings barn w/ hayloft, enclosed detached garage or workshop, garden shed or garage. Can easily support 2-3 horses with supplemental feeding. Schools: Stove Prairie Elementary or Cache la Poudre Elementary; Cache la Poudre Middle/Junior High; Poudre High School. Utilities: Registered spring which has never run dry, 2700 gallons of water cistern storage, U/F water filter, Poudre Valley REA, Qwest, Propane provider of your choice. Home pre-wired for Rist Canyon T-1 service which buyer may join. This property was REALISTICALLY appraised at $850,000 in 2006 and is offered at the bargain price of $785,000 today. Sellers desire to rent back until their new home is ready (projected in April 2009), but can move with three months notice. $10,000 Escrow Deposit payable to Land Title Guarantee Required. Buyer and seller will equally split the selling agent commission. Interested parties must fax lender pre-qualification letter to 970-484-4213. Call 970.484.7731 or 970.988.7792 to schedule your personal showing.