SECLUSION, PRIVACY, SECURITY and SELF-SUSTAINING, this turn-key ranch is located in Eastern Arizona. It offers the perfect opportunity to live a self-sufficient lifestyle, removed from the rigors, pressures, and concerns associated with the expanding urbanization of the west. The 40+/- acre deeded inholding is in the heart of the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest. This property is located at the end of Forest Service Road 217L off of Upper Eagle Creek Road.
The headquarters includes a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house, 10x12 greenhouse, carport/machine shed, shop, walk-in box/cooler, 20 cargo container for storage, and barn with a tack room. It also includes a dog pen, bird pen, tractor shed, raised bed garden, fruit trees, a windmill with a simple pump unit, solar panels and batteries, a generator, propane heat & lights, as well as a wood stove insert and old fashioned wood cookstove. This ...
The headquarters includes a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house, 10x12 greenhouse, carport/machine shed, shop, walk-in box/cooler, 20 cargo container for storage, and barn with a tack room. It also includes a dog pen, bird pen, tractor shed, raised bed garden, fruit trees, a windmill with a simple pump unit, solar panels and batteries, a generator, propane heat & lights, as well as a wood stove insert and old fashioned wood cookstove. This ranch offers 10 acres to farm and 3 potential helicopter pads. A gravel airstrip is nearby. Middle Prong Creek is seasonal and runs approximately 100 ft from the house where it then flows into Eagle Creek. The gardens and orchards provide sufficient produce allowing the owners to meet their personal needs while generating additional income from local farmers markets.
Middle Prong Ranch contains 3 registered wells along with water rights. The irrigation well with a 10 inch casing provides 100 gpm. There are approximately 10 acres of farmable ground along with adequate water rights to irrigate. Summers are never too hot and the winters are mild with an occasional snow storm. In addition there are harvestable hardwoods on the property.
This ranch is located in Arizona game management hunt unit 27. Along the Eagle Creek watershed in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. This remote property offers offers excellent Elk, Mule Deer, Whitetail, Turkey, Lion, and Bear hunting with record-book animals recently taken on the surrounding USFS land. Motorized access of Unit 27 is extremely limited and accessible only by foot or horseback making Middle Prong Ranch an excellent location for a hunting/outfitting operation. In addition, nearby Eagle Creek provides good fishing opportunities for smallmouth bass and other warm water species. Enjoy swimming holes and picnics along the banks of Eagle all easily accessible from the headquarters.
The 40+/- acre deeded inholding is in the heart of the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest and located at the end of a forest service road 217L, giving you maximum privacy. The closest services are approximately 47 miles south of the ranch in the small town of Morenci, Arizona. Safford, Arizona offers more services and is 93 miles from the ranch. The nearest large city is Tucson at 220 miles southwest of the ranch.