2864 Us Highway 36, Estes Park, CO 80517

A rare 160-acre mountain retreat high above the Estes Valley, with the Continental Divide on the horizon and Lake Estes in the valley below. You wind up through the trees and the house opens to walls of glass, where the mountains fill every window and the afternoon light pours across the whole valley before the sun drops behind the peaks.Designed and built by a local architect ahead of his time, the home is full of craftsmanship you cannot reproduce. Salvaged and reclaimed woodwork gives the great room its warmth: trusses built from a century-old railroad trestle, doors and trim milled from standing-dead hardwoods. A stone fireplace anchors the living room, the kitchen is built for someone who really cooks, and the primary suite sits high enough to feel like a treehouse.The lower level holds an indoor lap pool and gym with the mountains right outside the glass, plus flexible space that adapts to however you live. A private deck off the primary opens to a wood-fired hot tub under a sky...