Breathe deeply, look up and let yourself be awed by the majestic Summit County, Colorado properties here in the Rocky Mountains west of Denver. Four world-class ski areas, beautiful Lake Dillon and the White River National Forest welcome you to finely crafted houses for sale in Summit County. A piece of Summit County real estate will position you smack-dab in the center of Colorado’s playground where your family and friends can re-create themselves during summer, winter or even year round.
Whether you need a home for sale in Summit County's Breckenridge real estate, a Keystone condo, a Dillon waterfront property for sale or real estate anywhere from Loveland Pass to Arapahoe Basin, Silverthorne, Frisco or the Copper Mountain subbasin—you will enjoy the vibrant landscape as well as the vivre of the people and their love of the great outdoors. Drawn by the pristine beauty of the mountains and Colorado real estate, a high percentage of residents have moved here from another state. Available properties can run from the $100,000s to millions, but the median value of owner-occupied residences is $317,500.
Highly educated and in touch with Mother Nature, the residents here care for their pristine mountainsides and gold-medal streams with great pride. They have worked to reduce emissions and landfill volumes, eliminate beetles, promote forest health and reduce wildfire risks. The people in the county also sponsor several health events and cleanup events.
The list of recreational opportunities here is endless. Together with the community, the county strives to create and maintain excellent trails (such as Dillon Dam Road and Temple Trail) and facilities. No excuses for the couch potato! There are backcountry tours, guided ski tours, cross country skiing, dog sledding, ice skating, snowboarding, snow-biking, snow-mobile rides, show-shoeing, sleigh rides, batting cages, bicycling, boating, bowling, fishing, golfing, hiking, horseback riding, hunting, mountain biking, mountaineering, recreation centers, resort activities, river rafting, rock climbing, spas, sports-complex activities, swimming and tubing, hot-air balloon rides, off-road 4x4ing and overnight hut trips all right here in the county.
And what a place to refine your sense of beauty and harmony! Arts, entertainment and education are alive and well here. You can be the artist or take in a local gallery. You can take your children to learn about gold mining or Native American heritage, tour the Barney Ford Museum and learn how a son of a slave escaped and became a prominent businessman, and much more. You can find live music, quaint shopping, take in a theater, or go on a train ride. Or maybe stroll around the National Historic District of Breckenridge.
A centrally located high school and a middle school serve the older students, but there are elementary schools are located in each town (2,831 total students). The county school district plans to offer learning and enrichment during all school breaks. Innovations under way in the district will allow teachers to educate themselves about cutting-edge, instructional strategies and practices and put their heads together to develop personal instructional interventions that ensure each student’s success.
The College in the Colorado Rocky Mountains located here is a two-year school delivering a personalized, quality education on three residential campuses. The school offers an invigorating blend of outdoor experiential education and rigorous academic preparation.
The top five job categories are construction, retail, real estate, accommodations/food and government. The chamber of commerce lists 600 businesses in the towns of Breckenridge, Dillon, Frisco and Silverthorne as well we the ski areas of Arapahoe Basin, Breckenridge, Copper, Keystone, Loveland and Ski Cooper. Breckenridge is the county seat.
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