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  • Lot 12 Unit I is a total of 41.57 acres. Property Taxes are $12.50 per year. Please call for pricing.

  • Lot 13 Unit 1 is a total of 36.33 acres. Property Taxes are $10.92 per year. Please call for pricing.

  • Lot 14 Unit 1 is a total of 36.2 acres.  Property Taxes are $12.50 per year. Please call for pricing.

  • Lot 96 Unit 3 is a total of 47acres. This Estate Home site offers improvements including ¾ mile of entry road and utilities buried to main house site/location. With 47 total acres of gorgeous desert land, this property offers the most spectacular views in the area. This property is currently co-owned as an entity and overlooks the historic Salero Mine and Ghost Town.  Please call for pricing.


Salero Ranch Legacy Lots

Where can you find year-round fantastic weather, a relaxed lifestyle, never ending mountain views, sprawling hills and grassland and the opportunity to build your dream home in the middle of it all?  Salero Ranch. 


Everywhere at Salero Ranch, the views are spectacular. Because of the vast area of each parcel, you can look toward the north and see the impressive Santa Rita Mountains or the Grosvenors to the south; purple mountain majesty of the Patagonias southeast and the protected Coronado National Forest both north and east.

 

Each property is plentiful in distinctive southwestern appeal, lush with with several cacti species, mesquite, cottonwood and intriguing wildlife indigenous to the area. Comfortable summers and mild winters are the norm thanks to the ranch's 4,500 foot elevation. Can you imagine a place where more than 300 sunny, outdoor inviting days a year are the norm?


Starting with parcel 12, the most northern of the three (3) contiguous parcels in Unit I of the “Salero Ranch”... (the ranch originally belonged to Doc Hudson and the core 800 of the original 20,000 acres still is ranched by John Hudson with Dale Williams and his wife running it) The north edge of the parcel has an elevation of 4600 feet above sea level. It slopes down dramatically toward parcel 13 with scenic cliff formations out croppings and arroyos. In addition, at the north and east border of this parcel is a barbed wire range fence. State Trust Land and the corner of the Coronado National Forest are just on the other side, providing a gateway to 140,000 acres of historic and remote wilderness. This area is filled with old mining sites, ghost towns and ruins of inhabitants of the past. Trails lead through to Mount Wrightson, Mount Hopkins and the Whipple Observatory and provide unlimited territory to explore and discover for every level of outdoor enthusiast.


Parcel 13 is the site of tremendous investment and pure hard work. With the help of MRE Construction, roads have been cut and conduit installed for the electric, with pull boxes every 400 feet up to the building site; leveled and compacted by the Estrellas. In addition, a well has been drilled, capped and filed with the state. This building site is the setting for a unique family compound. Designed in 1996/97, the structures consist of four (4) pentagons, each approximately 5000 SF with a central courtyard and pool. Each pentagon is elevated in such a way as to provide unobstructed views of the surrounding mountain ranges and valleys. The design is based on a steel canopy superstructure and a desert masonry infill wall of indigenous gray gulch granite- a reference discovered after years of studying Frank Lloyd Wright’s Desert Living in Arizona. The site overlooks the manmade concrete dam and pond it created. It is an association owned by “exception” being completely surrounded by the three (3) parcels of ranch land. It provides the essential water necessary for the local cattle, horses and wildlife. The building site on parcel 13 has an axis of 260° South Southwest, providing maximum solar exposure and awe inspiring views of the Grosvenors.


As you leave the building site of 13 and head east toward parcel 14, you drop down into the arroyo that naturally divides the two parcels. When reaching the bottom, just before you start your vertical climb up to the building site at 14, you will find a seasonal creek that feeds the pond and dam. The dam was built by ranchers back in the 40’s as we are told, and is essential to providing the priceless commodity of water in the desert. Dramatic rock formations, soft sand like deposits of disintegrated granite “DG” have been deposited by years of rushing water flowing down from the mountain tops. There is an old smelter tucked into the side of a cliff used to melt down the ore mined by Native Americans for the mining companies of yesteryear. Parcel 14 is bordered to the south by an old ranger trail. It is also gated and provides access to a building site at the top- providing unparalleled views of all three parcels, not to mention the entire valley. Developed by the previous owners, the property improvements include a well (state registered), pump and storage tank, an underground conduit and active electric. With the county approved septic system in place, you are that much closer to building an incredible house as per the plans filed with Santa Cruz County. When you combine the semi-remote and electric gated group of parcels, you have before you a one-of-a-kind opportunity. You have the ability to build three homes and three guest homes if you would like, or just keep the compound on parcel 13…endless possibilities, adventures and good times in nature’s desert environment.


Add to this the historic Baca Float Ranch…the headquarters of Tol Pendleton’s land cattle and oil empire as a base of operations. Just twenty minutes away, down Camina Josephina and our new fire station, you have the recipe for a fantastic voyage…a western adventure rich in Southwestern history. The groundwork has been put in place, add your own insight ingredients and see what you can create!