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Specialties
The massive doors open and you enter an architectural masterpiece echoing 1450′s Scotland. Ahead lays the Great Hall with its soaring wooden arches and intricate cut-stone walls. To the left, a quiet study filled with treasures from world journeys. To the right, an expansive terrace offering magnificent views of the Rockies. Unique in all the West, this 1920s landmark and surrounding land now serves as a vibrant venue for extraordinary entertainment, education and enjoyment. Welcome.
Your horizon: From Pike’s Peak to Long’s Peak and beyond.
This is a Rocky Mountain panorama you won’t soon forget. Hundreds of miles of plains, plateaus and pinnacles unfold, giving you a view all along the Front Range. Denver’s cityscape to the north confirms how close the metro area really is.
History
Established in 1996.
Cherokee Ranch & Castle includes land that originally belonged to two separate homesteads in the late 1890s: the Flower Homestead and the Blunt Homestead. The Johnson Family moved from the East and purchased the Flower Homestead in 1924 and built the 1450s Scottish-style Castle. They sold the property to Tweet Kimball in 1954. Tweet purchased adjacent land that had been the Blunt Homestead and renamed both pieces of land Cherokee Ranch, which today includes 3,400 acres of natural beauty and wildlife. In 1996, Tweet worked with Douglas County and a citizen’s group, The Douglas County Open Lands Coalition, to protect Cherokee Ranch through a Conservation Easement. The Foundation holds the deed to Cherokee Ranch. In 2010, The Cherokee Ranch & Castle Foundation purchased 300 acres adjacent to the Ranch.