Lot 260 Homestead Road | Three Forks, MT

For a peaceful escape into seclusion w/stunning mountain views & an abundance of wildlife this 10-acre Lot 260 may be for you. It averages only 150’ higher in elevation than international airport in nearby Belgrade, MT 50 minutes away & is accessible year ‘round with 4x4s. Price per acre is about one hundredth of Bozeman property. West slope building sites provide solar warming & massive views, & one site which could hide a cabin within a stand of mature conifer trees. Lends itself to trucking in a pre-built cabin. Property tax 2022 = $514. Electricity is via solar, wind, propane, generator, or a combo. Water could be via rainwater collection system w/gravity-feed cistern, but a well is possible at considerably more expense; lot adjoining west shows well log of: 2 gpm, 31’static, 300’ total. Former POA provided fire protection, graded roads, enforced covenants; it disbanded about 2012, covenants are no longer enforced, any needed road grading is done by neighbors pooling resources. Native wildlife are pictured & retired FWP biologist says 750 head of elk call the area home. 640 acres of PUBLIC LAND lies 1/3 mi southwest. PUBLIC RIVER LANDS w/boat-raft launch are only a 7-mi drive away, legal shore fishing along entire river. SELLER WANTS CASH so buyer would have to use his/her assets as collateral to get a bank loan. Listing Broker-Land Surveyor-Mapper recovered all 4 property corner monuments flagging them with orange/blue ribbon, & approximately marking where the south line crosses lower Homestead Rd; additionally gave a digital file of a 3’x4’ black & white map of Ponderosa Pines costing about $8, to Selby’s Bozeman, UPS Store Belgrade, Main St Office Three Forks. Get one of these to navigate there. Many buyers of this kind of unique, serene landscape prefer to check the property out on their own without time constraints. If you are one of these, to go there on your own, print out & take with you the last picture showing imagery with GPS coordinates & access, buy the aforementioned map (longer but least-hassling route is via Roads: Clarkston to Ponderosa to Pole Gulch to Homestead in that order), then mentally superimpose the image picture scale change onto that larger map & go; or, alternatively, with a GPS not requiring phone reception, drive there using center of lot coordinates shown next. Distance to I-90 is 25 min. Email for a Q and A list of items needed to make an offer. Research lot center using Google Earth coordinates 46.02251,-111.34115.

Listing courtesy of: M.A.P.S., P.L.L.C.