The quintessential Colorado picture postcard. But much of it is private property. She's arrived with a Jeep tour operator and a camera-laden family.
Nobody pays any attention to private property up here.
He's filed for demolition permits with San Juan County to level five mining structures in a couple of old ghost towns that lure endless streams of tourists through his property, which is within the national forest as well as the Red Mountain Historic District. And signs along the Red Mountain Pass road advertise his 1,600 acres and another Ouray man's property for sale and development. This is not just a playground. I am not in the donation business. He's working with broker Tom Chapman, who has been successful in completing sales of other such inholdings, where private property is surrounded by public land.