Chico Basin Ranch, CO
The Chico Basin Ranch, located 45 minutes southeast of Colorado Springs, encompasses nearly 90,000 acres of pristine shortgrass prairie with five spring-fed lakes and countless springs that feed two creeks – Chico and Black Squirrel. Owned by the State Land Board, Chico has been managed by Ranchlands since 2002. This ranch runs the largest number of cattle of all Ranchlands properties, including a Beefmaster seedstock herd (originating from the Lasater Foundation herd in Colorado), which supplies all bulls for Ranchlands’ commercial herd. The Chico is also the site of a hospitality program for visitors interested in “hardcore” ranching, a small outdoor sporting business, education day programs for students from the surrounding area, and our Mercantile leathershop.
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