People are snapping up properties in Chama, site of the narrow gauge RR. It is quickly becoming another suburban sprawl area: http://www.unitedcountry.com/ucforms/uconline/uconline/searchNS/FindPropertiesAll_testfran.asp?SID=30789409&curpage=15
Chama huh?
Dont worry, there is a very large amount of land out west. It’s the water rights and access to the needed basic services that is going to be an issue.
Good luck!
[:(] and Chama had a water shortage a few years ago (6-8 years) where the National Guard had to bring in water “Camels” for the residents. Not sure if they have totally solved that problem…seems there are many more water rights than there is water out west here…They have even built a water tunnel to divert water from the San Juan basin/pacific side) over to the Rio Grand basin(Gulf Side),accross teh contintental divide, so some can get down stream to Santa Fe and Albuquerque.
It’s the spillover from Durango & Telluride land boom. Everybody that has more money than brains wants a vacation house in the hills to cool off with in the summer and to play ski-bunny in the winter.
Being that Aspen, Vail, Steamboat, Durang & Telluride have land that you buy by the Dollars/Sq. Ft., the wannabes (including all those DC political hacks) have to move further out to find some acreage. There may be conservation of evil in the country, but wonkyness has become a pandemic.