Santa Rosa Ranch is the most significant large deeded New Mexico cattle ranch available today! The ranch is assembled as a contiguous expanse of 43,625.76 deeded acres to include 780 federal BLM acres and 160 private lease acres totaling 44,405.76 acres. This is 69 sections of rangeland that will accommodate up to a 1,000 head of cattle yearlong.
Santa Rosa Ranch is a working cattle ranch with the comforts of the luxurious new Casa de Rosa. This territorial residence, Casa de Rosa, is nestled within scenic mesa woodlands fenced away from the day to day activities of the ranch operation. The Santa Rosa Ranch improvements are an enviable infrastructure developed to ease the daily management and operation of this vast ranch. Santa Rosa Ranch will provide the new owner an impressive improvement depreciation schedule and a fully operational working ranch.
This privately controlled ranch is located eight miles southwest of Santa Rosa, New Mexico. Santa Rosa is within 100 miles of Santa Fe and within close proximity of Albuquerque and Amarillo. Santa Rosa is a thriving interstate community that functions as the Guadalupe County Seat. New schools, medical and emergency services and ranch supplies are all available at Santa Rosa. Interstate 40, U.S. Highway 54 and U.S. Highway 84 access the community. A paved jet strip is located at Santa Rosa accommodating most all private aircraft which provides easy access to the Santa Rosa Ranch.
Santa Rosa Ranch is accessed by U.S. Highway 54, which fronts the northern boundary for 14 miles. County gravel maintained roads traverse the ranch providing excellent access to the entire ranch and ranch headquarters. Access to the Casa de Rosa is gated and controlled yet easily accessed off Highway 54.
Casa de Rosa overlooks the magnificent view shed of the adjacent Agua Negra canyonlands. The Casa was architecturally designed to take advantage of the splendid views and to provide a relaxing residential lifestyle certain to please all cowboys and cowgirls. The New Mexico Territorial design is simple yet sophisticated and inviting. The floor plan is open and flows gracefully from the grand entry and great room into a spacious living, dining and kitchen area. Durable marble floors are complimented by massive carved 16 foot vigas raising up to support decorative corbels and huge wood ceiling beams. There are two striking fireplaces with beautiful stone mantels accenting the great room and living room areas.
Many eight-foot picture windows provide captivating views while flooding the rooms with sunlight. The kitchen will accommodate any chef with spacious custom corian counter tops and designer series professional appliances. There is secluded master bed and bath with Jacuzzi tub and kiva fireplace. Additional amenities include a half bath, cozy veranda, utility room, three-car garage and entertainment system with flat screen monitors. Casa de Rosa is wood framed construction with commercial grade perma flex stucco exterior finish and great accents. It was designed for low maintenance, efficiency and the amenities associated with the custom suburban residence rarely found on the New Mexico working ranch.
The working side of the ranch is fenced separately from Casa de Rosa. At the nucleus of the ranch is the headquarters comprised of a manager's residence and cowboy's residence. Nearby are the headquarters livestock steel pipe pens together with shipping pens complete with cattle scales. Strategically located throughout the ranch are three additional cattle processing and shipping pens. Two are significant cattle facilities and all have good road access.
Santa Rosa Ranch livestock are managed with thirteen pastures and six holding traps comprised of approximately 288 miles of fence. All pastures have permanent water supply from numerous dependable sources. The water table of this region is shallow, plentiful and water quality is good. This is evident from the many natural lake beds or playas most of which have been developed into reliable large earthen water tanks storing rain water runoff. Twenty shallow water wells are developed throughout the ranch and are improved with windmills or submersible pumps. Associated with the water wells is 38 miles of pressurized buried plastic water lines supplying water storage tanks and numerous water troughs. Santa Rosa Ranch is most probably the best watered cattle ranch that I am aware of. Access throughout the ranch is with miles of bladed privately maintained service roads with hassle free metal pass gates complimented by a low traffic county road system.
Location of Santa Rosa Ranch is at an average elevation of 5,100 feet and a latitude desirable for the yearlong cow calf or yearling operation. Annual average precipitation is approximately fifteen inches, which includes winter snow. The climate is generally mild without extreme heat or cold.
Topography is predominately open rolling grama grasslands blending to moderate juniper woodlands and mesas in the northeast and east. Throughout the rangesites are many playas lakes and broad sweeping grassy draws. This ranch is without wasteland and is completely utilized by livestock. Santa Rosa Ranch provides a healthy environment for raising today's improved cattle herds.
Santa Rosa Ranch is an economic unit located in prime cattle country. It is a large improved privately controlled totally operational ranch. As is the ranch will support a significant improvement depreciation schedule. Real Estate taxes in New Mexico are low and not detrimental to ownership of land. The Santa Rosa real estate taxes are less than ten cents per acre. Access to the ranch is not a problem and geographically Santa Rosa Ranch is located nearby the major New Mexico and West Texas markets. Also, the ranch has a mortgage loan with a favorable agricultural interest rate that can be assumed. Don't miss out on this rare opportunity to acquire a significant New Mexico Ranch property.
