About Big Elk Meadows
Big Elk Meadows is a very private, gated mountain community with about 165 homes and cabins. About 1/3 of the properties are occupied year around. Big Elk is located 5 miles along good roads from US Highway 36 between Lyons and Estes Park, Colorado. It is surrounded by tens of thousands of acres of Roosevelt National Forest. The National Forest offers hiking, biking, mountain biking, hunting, horseback riding and lots of peace and tranquility. In the summertime, many owners come on vacation for a week or month at a time. It is a great place for the children as the community offers 6 fishing lakes stocked with trout, 2 tennis courts, a basketball court, volleyball court, a baseball field, heated swimming pool, a picnic pavilion, and enough pasture for 2 horses property owner.
Recently, the community built a firehouse that houses a pumper truck and a tanker truck. Big Elk also has its own water system that provides water through an underground distribution system after filtration through a micro-filtration plant. All this including road maintenance and snow plowing costs each owner $173.25 per month as an association fee/water assessment. The community organizes a Forth of July party in the common meadow areas and another party on Labor Day with Bar-B-Que and fun. There is a Memorial Day breakfast fund raiser, as well. There are hiking and horse trails in many directions into the National Forest. This forest area is known as area 20 by hunters. It is the most prolific elk hunting and deer hunting in the state of Colorado. Some residents bring their horse down from the common horse pasture and ready themselves for an extended horseback ride into the National Forest. There they can hunt, enjoy fishing in a mountain lake, watch deer and elk wander near. There is some world class trout fishing in the N. Saint Vrain River, not far away.
Off road vehicle enthusiasts can also enjoy the designated trails in the surrounding forest. There is a camp at Johnny Park, nearby, for ATV, four wheel drive and ORV lovers.
Big Elk Meadows is about 45 minutes from Boulder Colorado, about 1.25 hours from Denver and Denver International Airport. It is about 20 minutes from Estes Park and the continental divide.
There are mountain cabins for sale and mountain homes for sale in this gated community.
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