Eighteen acres at the edge of Nederland. A six-parcel community ten years in the making — 22 assisted and 18 affordable mountain apartments and 40 hillside dwellings, a 6,000-square-foot education center, and a preserved old-growth forest and a new multi-use pedestrian path along Eldora Road.
Bobcat Ridge sits on roughly eighteen acres at the edge of Nederland, between the Middle/High School, the downtown core, and the West Magnolia trail system — a location chosen so residents can live, learn, work, and walk without a car.
The plan concentrates housing on the buildable portion of the site and preserves the old-growth forest along the eastern edge as a permanent nature reserve. It is the product of more than a decade of Community Heart & Soul engagement, county hearings, and resident input — designed in public, deliberately, and with the community it will serve.
The land was sponsored by longtime ranch owner Kayla Evans, whose conviction that mountain towns owe their working families a place to call home set both the project and the organization in motion.
Zoning and platting plan — the six-parcel program, with the conservation forest (Lot 5) and the 10′ multi-use pedestrian path (Parcel 6) tracing the north property boundary along Eldora Road.
Comfortable 1–3 bedroom dwellings featuring a mountain lifestyle — 624 to 1,160 SF.
Bobcat Ridge is organized as six parcels — three distinct residential sites, a community education center, a preserved conservation forest, and a multi-use pedestrian path planned along Eldora Road. The conservation forest and the pedestrian path are each proposed for separate conveyance to the Town of Nederland for one dollar each. Affordability and availability of homes are directly addressed through increasing supply in all price ranges.
| Parcel | Program | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| The Education Center | 6,000 SF multi-use building | Early-childhood and outdoor education, community events, and space for medical and public services. |
| The Dayton | 22 housing-assistance apartments | Deeply affordable apartments operated with long-term tenancy and resident support. |
| Silver Mine A | 18 affordable apartments | LIHTC-eligible affordable apartments serving the local workforce. |
| Mountain Dwellings | 40 market-rate townhomes | One- to four-bedroom for-sale townhomes that integrate the community and help fund the whole. |
| Conservation Forest | ~9 acres preserved | Old-growth nature reserve along the eastern edge of the site — proposed for conveyance to the Town of Nederland for $1. |
| Multi-Use Pedestrian Path | Along Eldora Road | A developed multi-use pedestrian path set into the hillside above Eldora Road, connecting the community to downtown Nederland and the schools — proposed for separate conveyance to the Town for $1. |
Unit counts, acreage, and parcel breakdown reflect the current pre-development plan and are subject to final entitlement. Building configurations shown in project imagery are conceptual.
The architecture is designed to sit quietly in the high country — mountain-appropriate scale, materials, and massing that read as part of Nederland rather than imposed on it.
Mixed incomes share the same streets and the same quality of design. The education center anchors the community; the preserved forest gives it a permanent edge of wild land; and the pedestrian path stitches the whole site into the trails and town that surround it.
Conceptual rendering — for illustration only; not a final architectural design.
The MHA design team is led by award-winning affordable-housing and community-planning architect Tom Lyon, who brought four decades of experience — and the results of our Community Heart & Soul process — to a design that captures a uniquely Nederland look and feel.
This is not just a picture of buildings; it is a design for a healthy lifestyle. The community sits minutes on foot from daily life: about a quarter mile from Nederland Middle/High School and roughly half a mile from the Caribou Center's grocery, medical, and dining — with downtown, Barker Reservoir, and the West Magnolia trails all within easy reach.
The homes themselves are comfortable one- to three-bedroom mountain dwellings — from 624 to 1,160 square feet — each with ample covered decks, in-unit washer/dryer plumbing, and additional exterior storage. Every unit is adaptable to meet accessibility requirements, so neighbors can stay in the community as their needs change.
An entitlement process embedded into the annexation — Bobcat Ridge is not a concept on paper; it is an entitled-pathway project carried through years of public process.
The land-use and annexation pathway runs through the Town of Nederland, whose Board of Trustees holds the authority to annex the property under Colorado's municipal annexation statute. Because zoning and platting are resolved as part of the annexation proceeding itself, the Town shapes the entitlement and the boundary in a single public process. Years of Community Heart & Soul engagement, county hearings, surveys, studies, and resident input are on file and available to our municipal partners for review.
What remains is partnership: the right municipal and capital partners to carry the community from an entitled plan into built homes.
For Sale
The Bobcat Ridge property is offered for sale at $6,000,000.
Mountain Housing Assistance, LLC is the listing party. The property is listed by CREA Real Estate (CRE Advisory Services LLC); Michael David Ackerman is the listing broker and a principal owner of the property. Qualified developers, housing-mission investors, and public partners are invited to request the full pre-development package.