This subdivision is was built among towering Ponderosa Pine Trees. No tract homes here! Hidden Valley Ranch features homes by many different builders with no two homes alike. The varied terrain also introduces marvelous variety from lot to lot. Parts of the neighborhood follow ridges with stunning views looking across downtown Prescott all the way to Thumb Butte and Granite Mountain.

Other parts are close to common areas feeding into Banning Creek which has its origin beyond the two Goldwater lakes. The lots and homes are arranged to ensure the greatest privacy and views for each home site. While backing to National Forest with hundreds of hiking trails nearby, this subdivision is only 3 minutes from the courthouse square! Homes in this neighborhood range in size between 1500 – 5000 square feet, with average lot size of approximately ¼ acre.

If you are looking for a townhouse with less maintenance, Hidden Valley Ranch also features condos, townhouses, and patio homes. Homes range in price anywhere from mid $200ks up to $800k. Condos, townhouses, and patio homes currently range in price between $180k and $280k. Subdivision features include clubhouse, game/hobby room, outdoor pool, 4 hard surface tennis courts, and a recently-added Pickleball Court, many common areas, and secure RV parking.

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Deer are quite comfortable here, as evidenced by this one. She seems to be telling me that she has claimed this place and not to trespass on it.

Here is another photo of the deer. This photo was taken by my friend, Rick Henwood, in Haisley Homestead. It looks like the deer are quite content here.

Another great thing about these neighborhoods is that they are close to the Prescott National Forest on the south side of Prescott. Access is via White Spar Road aka Highway 89, on the west side and by Senator Highway on the east side. Senator Highway starts from Gurley Street as Mt. Vernon Street and changes into Senator Highway as the road passes by Palmer Hill.

Development Opportunity: Build among Boulders and Pines near Prescott, Arizona in Williamson Valley on Cougar Canyon Road.

This 11.37-acre lot has HUMONGOUS boulders and lots of Pinon Pines. It is in a well-planned neighborhood named Wikutepa.  The roads leading to this lot have been recently paved. By my estimation, the rock outcropping I call “big tooth” is around 130 feet tall. Several of the boulders on this lot are as big as houses.

This lot is zoned for 2 acre minimum lot sizes. There are several potential building sites among the granite boulders and Pinon Pines. Your architect will be excited to design upscale homes in this spectacular setting.

Here is an aerial view of the property. Notice that it borders The Prescott National Forest on the west.

Here is a Google Earth Flyover that shows how to get to the property.

Get a closer look via this drone flyover at an elevation of 90 feet.

I sometimes get asked by a stranger “I want to see the cabin in Potato Patch at 2885 Black Lode Trail” or I want to see the $50,000 220-acre lot in Seligman, AZ.” These properties are QUITE remote. It may take me a full day to show some of my listings. I am not a tourguide.

I may not take you seriously until I find that you are “doing your homework.” Other agents will likely not take you seriously, either. I had an incident on Friday, 7/24/15 when I had such a call. This “Buyer” said she had been stood up by an Agent in Payson after driving there from Phoenix to see a specific property. I will show her the cabin at 2885 Black Lode Trail today, not because I think she is a good prospect, but because I said I would.

Here are my rules for Buyers if you want to be taken seriously:

• Decide the neighborhood and the setting in which you want to live.
• Decide on your “property specifications.” Be willing to fore-go seeing listings that do not meet your criteria.
• Know your budget and get qualified so you know for sure what you can afford. Do not look at homes or properties that are outside of your budget.
• Decide on your process. How will you make your decision on which property you like?
  “I’ll know it if I see it” is not an acceptable way of making your decision.
• Decide on who you want to represent you as a Buyer. Calling each listing Agent may not be in your best interest.
• Are you really ready to buy? If not, please do not waste everyone’s time “playing HGTV!
• Bottom line: Be respectful of everyone’s time.

These estimates may be entirely unreliable.

Here are some of the reasons theZTR blanket estimates do not work well in Prescott, Arizona.

• Many lots were sold to individual Builders
• There are very few “look-alike” homes here
• No “cookie-cutter” or “ticky-tack” homes here
• Forest settings vary widely from one part of town to another
• Prescott is hilly and some of the lots are steep
• Some have big views, others do not
• Ages of the homes vary widely, a few are as old as 100 years or more
• Homes in the pines are mostly 30 to 50 years old
• Many homes have been remodeled or updated

Questions you should ask when shopping for a home in Prescott

• How steep is the lot? – there are very few nearly level lots
• How many stair steps to get to the main living level?
• How many levels in the home?
• How steep is the driveway and how long is it?
• Does the driveway face north or south?
• Do you want to live in the pines?

If you come from Phoenix or other area where there is no snow, you probably would not think a north-facing driveway versus a south-facing driveway is significant. However, it does make a huge difference when there is snow on a steep driveway. The last home I had in the pines had a steep driveway and faced to the north. What little snow we get in Prescott usually melts in a day or two but not so on a driveway that is shaded in the winter.

Just a cursory analysis shows that there may be a $50,000 to $60,000 premium for a 2,000 sq-ft home in the Ponderosa Pines compared to a home that is not in a “piney” area. Doing meaningful CMAs in Prescott is very difficult. I do not routinely do CMAs as it is so difficult to account for or adjust for the factors mentioned above.

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With 300 days of sunshine and annual daytime average temperature  of 70 degrees who wouldn’t want to live here?  Be sure to view full screen.

This video shows much of the area with great views and descriptions of the town plaza and courthouse area.

Original video from here: https://youtu.be/zHw-ApbD4ss

In this video we take a short drive to the gate of this community.  Then a fly over of the area.  This is a gated community in the Granite Dells in Prescott Arizona, with stunning views.

The open space is not all in the cities and towns. One of the reasons we like our open space is the solitude and relief it brings to our personal environment. We also enjoy having an abundance of wildlife in our surroundings. Most of us enjoy seeing the Mule Deer, Bobcats [Lynx more accurately] and maybe even a Coyote or a few Javelina once in a while. These can be appreciated in the forest — in our yards not so much. We also like to watch the Pronghorn Antelope in our open meadows.

Our open space is not evenly distributed. Prescott is bounded on the south and west by the Prescott National Forest. Many of our neighborhoods in the south and western parts of Prescott have been developed leaving the Ponderosa Pines in place where they have grown for decades. Mingus Mountain to the east of Prescott Valley is also part of the Prescott National Forest and also has enormous stands of Ponderosa Pines.

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Most of the private land in the Bradshaw Mountains south of Prescott was preserved as private land because of the [mostly gold] mining claims that were made before the Prescott National Forest was set aside. The best example of a Piney neighborhood within the Prescott National Forest are the community of Walker and Groom Creek.

Most of the old mining claims have been divided into cabin or home sites.

]]> https://ww2.prescottpinetreehomes.com/blog/beau/lets-get-a-dog-park-in-south-prescott/ Wed, 23 Oct 2019 20:15:19 +0000 https://ww2.prescottpinetreehomes.com/?p=89 Let’s work to persuade the City of Prescott to make a dog park for our Hidden Valley Ranch neighborhood and others in the area. As far as I know, the only public dog park in Prescott, Arizona is located at 3181 N Willow Creek Road. That dog park is around 2.25 acres. The route to get there runs through the center of Prescott.  It would be great to have a dog park that is closer. Google says the dogpark at 3181 Willow Creek Road  is 7.2 miles or 16 minutes from Whitespar and Copper Basin Rd (Woody’s).

It would also be great to have a place where I could take my dog, Beau, where he can be legally “off-leash.”

The next step is to have a meeting to build a following of those who might support the project. Let’s see if we can get the Clubhouse at Hidden Valley Ranch or even the one in Mountain Club. Our boundary includes Cathedral Pines, Forest Hylands, Haisley Homestead, Mountain Club as well as Summit Pointe. That is nearly 3,000 households. Our neighborhood has lots of voters. The City of Prescott has money to purchase open space. We need to build a following that is influential enough to be heard by the Prescott City Council.

This article came from AR: https://activerain.com/droplet/4C6p

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