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If you want to escape to the mountains, this newly available vacation home is perfect for you.
The clean, modern open space condo has a stunning view of Prospect Mountain, private fishing access to the Big Thompson River, a 6 minute drive to the entrance of Rocky Mountain National Park, walking distance to the quaint shops in downtown Estes Park, and all the charm of mountain living.
With a king bed in the upstairs open loft primary bedroom, two full bunk beds and two twin bunkbeds in one of the lower bedrooms, plus a second king bed in the 2nd primary bedroom downstairs, there is room for up to 8, with no more than 6 adults and 2 additional children (aged 12 or under), which must be affiliated family members..
This is a dream destination for those who are looking for leisure living, beautiful national parks, and mountain fresh air. You will want to come back again and again to the Buffalo Retreat in Estes Park, Colorado.
Welcome to Estes Park
History of Estes Park
from the website Visit Estes Park -
The word “Park,” in the parlance of the mountains, means upland valley. The name “Estes Park” (or “Este’s Park” as it was first known), was bestowed on the valley by William Byers, founding editor of the Rocky Mountain News, in honor of its first permanent Anglo residents, Kentuckian Joel Estes and his wife Patsy. Byers, and his party, on their way to a failed attempt to climb Longs Peak in 1864, stayed with the Estes family, paying his hosts $2.20 for food and lodging. Writing of the experience for the News, Byers predicted that “eventually this park will become a favorite pleasure resort.”
The Estes family did not stay, leaving in 1866, in search for a more temperate place in which to ranch their cattle. Others, however, soon arrived, and by 1874, the valley had been opened for settlement under the terms of the Homestead Act. Though the first pioneer families (the MacGregors, Spragues, Jameses, Hupps, Fergusons, and Lambs among them) came to ranch and farm, most soon discovered that a more profitable living could be made by taking care of the needs of the summer visitors who arrived, and in ever-increasing numbers, to recreate and rest among scenery that many described as rivaling Switzerland itself.
The Town of Estes Park was platted by Abner Sprague in the spring of 1905, surveyed out from the small group of existing buildings clustered about what is now the corner of today’s Elkhorn and Moraine avenues. Lots sold quickly, and within a decade the footprint of the town we know today was largely in place. Most of the town’s early infrastructure—its electricity, its water and sewerage system—came from the generosity of steam car pioneer F. O. Stanley, who had come to the Estes Valley in June 1903 hoping to recover his health. His legacy lives on most visibly in the magnificent Stanley Hotel complex overlooking the town, built between 1907 and 1909.