Highlands Ranch New Homes - The BackCountry Community
Mar 9th, 2008 by Steve Scheer
Recently I had the opportunity to visit and tour the BackCountry community, which is the new gated community located in Highlands Ranch on the south side of WildCat Reserve Parkway at Broadway. I do have a Denver home buyer that is going to be visiting next month and he was hoping to see some additional photos of what was available in the Highlands Ranch new construction real estate market.
The construction for the Back County is well under way and already some homes are complete with many more to come.
Most of the Homes in the BackCountry are built by Shea homes and start in the $500,000's and the custom homes (by a variety of builders) will go well past the $1 million mark. The BackCountry is one of the last of the larger communities being built in Highlands Ranch and once it is done, Highlands Ranch build-out will be most likely near completion.
This was not the first time I had visited the BackCountry - but it was the first time I had my camera. I was fairly impressed with the floor plans - large kitchens and great rooms with a wise use of space. The thing that I really found interesting being in the models was house pretty much across the board - the great Colorado outdoors have been brought inside. Amazing patios, many times more than one per home, with outdoor fireplaces in many of the homes and the decor that was chosen for the models highlighted the outdoors as well.
My wife came with me on this tour of the BackCounty and she was impressed as well with the emphasis on the beautiful Colorado outdoors. When complete the community itself will be comprised of over 450 acres of open space and trails and also leads to the over 6200 acres of The BackCountry Wilderness. We both felt that the theme had been played out very well. In addition there were incredible views of the entire front range from so many areas in the BackCountry. I will be interested to see how that is developed over time once more of the homes are built.
Interestingly,both of our favorite model was one of the first we saw, and featured a "pop-top" design - as it was explained to us - a ranch with a
popped top for extra living space upstairs to be used as a loft, study, playroom, whatever. I found this so intriguing as Denver pop-tops is a very hot term. In the last 10 years or so plenty of Denver home owners (in Denver) have expanded upwards since they really didn't have anywhere to go out-wards. I couldn't help but wonder if they were trying to appeal to the more urban crowd that may be familiar with a pop-top home of their own & that terminology. In any case, it was impressive.
All in all, we both enjoyed our model home tour at the BackCountry that day. It was nice to tour leisurely without clients as it was the first time I had been there without a customer, thus I was able to really take my time and look around.
If you are looking for a new home in the Highlands Ranch area and want to consider the homes at BackCountry, I would love to take you on a tour as well.
I just read your blog on Back Country… I would love to have you visit the Pradera Golf Villas here at the Prviate Club at Pradera. I think you will be equally impressed! I am the community manager for the golf villas and we offer a low maintenance, paired golf villa product. It is absolutely beautiful here at the golf villas and we build ranches with standard finished basements –with a real Colorado aesthetic! Stucco and stone exteriors, 10′ main floor ceilings 9′ basements 8′ doors, slab granite, optional plank hardwood flooring, Jenn Air kitchens, stained rail with metail spindle and so much… I am getting the Back country buyer out here too!