Details for 73814 Bear Creek Flat Lane Silver Lake, OR 97638

Description: If you are looking for a beautiful ranch where you can get away from it all and rough it in your comfortable, custom-built home, the historic Pitcher Ranch may be just the one for you! Relax by the fireplace while you enjoy watching the wildlife and beautiful views of the Hagar Mountain and the Buck Creek meadows, afforded by the homes many, large windows. The effect seems to literally bring your natural surroundings right into your home! Located 7 miles southwest of Silver Lake, Oregon, just a short, scenic 1-hour 23-minute drive from Bend, Oregon, Pitcher Ranch is comprised of 2,916.9 acres of riparian meadows, rimrock cliffs and outcrops, sagebrush flats, juniper dominated uplands, aspen groves, and Ponderosa pine forests. Flowing down spectacular gorges and meandering through adjacent riparian areas are 2 miles of Buck Creek, a perennial creek originating from Yamsay Mountain, and 1.5 miles of Bear Creek, a seasonal creek originating from Antelope Flat. The willow thickets, meadows and wetlands provide excellent wildlife habitat. This is truly a beautiful ranch that is almost entirely surrounded by BLM or Forest Service lands. The ranch headquarters are tucked away in a quiet, private valley. As you turn off paved Bear Flat Lane and meander down your private drive toward your luxurious accommodations, you will never tire of the feeling that you have arrived home. Pitcher Ranch has scattered pockets of timber, primarily Ponderosa pine and predominately located in the Bear Creek and Buck Creek canyons. Pitcher Ranch has multiple meadows with an agricultural operation comprised of about 75 acres of flood-irrigated perennial meadow grass with State-certified irrigation water rights that produce over 100 tons of excellent quality horse hay, in good years. The current owners obtained $327,000 in funding grants to develop three modern irrigation diversions, complete with fish ladders and screens, to irrigate the meadows more efficiently and protect the native Redband rainbow trout population. There are four vehicle-capable bridges across Buck Creek. For horse grazing, approximately 23 acres in the north meadow are fully enclosed by Electrobraid fencing. While Pitcher Ranch does not maintain a cattle herd, the uplands, as well as the meadows would lend themselves well to grazing. Pitcher Ranch holds Preference for a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Grazing Lease, OR00703, in the Bear Creek Allotment, which allows for the grazing of 30 cattle from 9/01 to 12/28 annually, for 117 AUMs. Pitcher Ranch typically leases this grazing lease to a neighbor, with BLM concurrence.

7 Bedrooms
5 Bathrooms
2,567 Square Feet
2916.09 Acres

MLS ID: 220149066
County: Lake
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Year Built: 2011