Breathtaking views while you sip your morning coffee in the backcountry of Cerrillos, NM, this off-grid home is a refuge from the hustle and bustle of daily life, surrounded with wildlife and high desert terrain. A large metal outbuilding can be a generous four car garage, a spacious workshop or studio, or even a terrific house for your four legged or feathered friends. Enjoy the benefits of rain water gathering and solar electric power in an established and comfortable home. Wood and propane heating with solar heated water from a simple rooftop system in an architect designed home make for a simple rural lifestyle. Greenhouses attached to both structures. Get down to basics and connect with the land.
Once home to the large mining community, Madrid is now a sleepy little town of artists. With an ice cream parlour and old fashioned businesses, Madrid feels other-worldly to visitors. Homes here are early 20th century wooden structures painted a variety of colors. Just north of Madrid is Cerrillos, a traditional New Mexico village of older adobes and quaint shops.
The Turquoise Trail! A beautiful road from Santa Fe all the way to Albuquerque. With many lots 2.5 acres or more, this area is perfect for raising horses on wide open spaces with fewer building restrictions than in the city of Santa Fe. The famous Eaves Movie Ranch where movies like “The Cheyenne Social Club” and “Silverado”were filmed completes the Old West feeling.
This rapidly growing area with plans for expansion extending into the 2050’s is largely made up of rolling hills dotted with pinon and juniper. Most of the communities located here have extraordinary views of the Jemez, the Sangres and the Sandias.