LOOK – Colorado castle on 40 acres for sale for under $1 million

If you’ve ever driven through southern Colorado and thought, “You know what this place needs? A castle,” someone already beat you to it, and now it can be yours for $985,000.

Tucked among the trees in the unincorporated town of Weston, a community in Las Animas County with a population of roughly 52 people, sits a nearly 6,000-square-foot castle-style home on 40 acres of private mountain land, currently listed on Realtor.com. The home at 16422 County Road 31.9 was built in 2007, has four bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms, a three-car garage and comes with the kind of feature list that makes you wonder if the original owners were building a house or a medieval resort. We’re talking a lap pool, hot tub room, steam shower, jetted tub, wet bar, breakfast nook, dual walk-in closets, an expansive deck, a hardwired security system, two wells and a 1,000-gallon cistern. The whole thing is built with a highly insulated steel frame and a fire-resistant exterior engineered to exceed snow load requirements.

Weston sits about 30 minutes west of Trinidad along the Highway of Legends Byway in the Purgatoire River Valley, surrounded by wildlife areas at an elevation of roughly 7,000 feet. At $168 per square foot and an estimated mortgage of about $5,700 a month, the listing is getting attention for being one of the more unusual deals in the state. For context, $985,000 in Denver right now might get you a three-bedroom bungalow with “character” and a neighbor who plays drums. Here, it gets you a castle with mountain views and 40 acres where the nearest neighbor is a ponderosa pine.

The property is listed by Sarah Manshel with eXp Realty.