Illustrious Grand County is the most extensive of Colorado's 64 counties. Its Colorado real estate encompasses 1,870 square miles including 23 square miles of water features. As a jewel set midst several other Rocky Mountain counties--Larimer, Gilpin, Clear Creek, Jackson, and Routt as well as the better known neighbors of Boulder County, Summit County, Eagle County--the communities within Grand County have become increasingly popular during vacation home searches through Denver CO real estate. Clients ask about our creative Colorado mortgages when they want to add a second home in the mountains.
If you like to get out hiking, mountain biking, hunting, rappelling, mountaineering, boating, fishing, skiing, kayaking, rafting, tubing, cross-country skiing, skiing and riding, talking to wildlife, strolling through wildflower meadows, look into your options here in Fraser, Granby, Grand Lake, Hot Sulphur Springs, Kremmling, Radium, Tabernash, and Winter Park itself. Granby is the largest town but Hot Sulphur Springs is the county seat.
With the handy Denver International Airport less than two hours to the east, it is common for the millions of visitors to the region to take a few minutes to inquire about Denver home loan options for properties convenient to the airport.
It is understandably so. Millions of visitors to Rocky Mountain National Park, the Arapaho National Recreation Area, Arapaho National Forest, Routt National Forest, and most especially Winter Park Ski Resort. Whether traveling the scenic byways via Colorado River Headwaters National Scenic Byway or Trail Ridge Road and Beaver meadow National Scenic Byway or roughing it over the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail, the experience is utterly awesome. Grand County's veil extends through the Byers Peak Wilderness, the Indian Peaks Wilderness, Never Summer Wilderness, Ptarmigan Peak Wilderness, Sarvis Creek Wilderness, and Vasquez Peak Wilderness.
The county was created in 1874 from portions of Summit County. It is named after Grand Lake and the Grand River, a former name of the Colorado River which has its headwaters in the county. A squabble over valuable mineral rights on portions that belonged to the county before Routt was created was settled in 1886 and the county’s northern boundary has remained the same ever since.
The Town of Winter Park is located within Grand County. However the Winter Park Resort is owned by the City and County of Denver and managed by Intrawest. The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad operates a handy Ski Train between the Mile High City and the resort. The resort is the site of community festivities and concerts.
Over 13,000 thousand full-time residents arrived before you to clear the trails and organize the communities. The communities are in the Mountain Time Zone. The median household income in the year 2000 was $47,759 and the median age was 37.
