Breckenridge Real Estate Blog

With the advent of the Internet and laptop technologies, many people buying homes in Breckenridge, Summit County and Park County, Colorado are discovering the freedom of telecommuting.  Folks are increasingly embracing an invigorating recreational lifestyle in spite of being employed in a city by working from a home office and plugging into the Wi-Fi of a mountain-top warming hut.

If home is where the heart is, as more studies are showing, our heartfelt integration within our mountain communities is where it’s at.  Our Rocky Mountain location provides some wonderful integrative advantages, one being that our Breckenridge CO homes are surrounded by pristine forests acting as boundaries for Breckenridge real estate, preventing sprawl and preserving a small-town feel.

We can wrap our arms around our community.  It is the perfect size for walking, greeting neighbors, working together, welcoming visitors, and managing ourselves in a way that preserves the clean air and all of the reasons that we moved here in the beginning.  As a pedestrian-oriented community, we can already walk to the corner drug store, bike to school, live above our businesses, and hop onto the Summit Stage.

We have inherited a rich cultural identity that is reflected in everything from our architecture to our music to our glorious ski slopes.  Additionally, we can learn about the Ute tribes that moved through our backyard as well as the miners who followed their dreams.  And our citizens can meet with architects, professors, writers, builders, landscape designers, governing officials, educators, and others to cooperatively seek  solutions to problems that need addressing.  With so much handed down to us, we have the capacity to boost our resort into its next lifespan.

Our “Perfect Mountain Town,” is in a great position to exemplify an ecologically valuable model for other communities.  We can keep our beds warm when owners are out of town by renting to others who also appreciate our community—those who will keep the lights on and the fireplaces lit.  We can re-examine the notion of stewardship and look for more ways to be self-sufficient.

Who would have imagined after the end of the gold rush days the incredible resort we enjoy today?  We already enjoy the fruits of mixed-use planning by those before us.   How can we integrate knowledge and technology with the natural resources we so cherish and keep our community on the cutting edge for generations to come?  How can we accept our wholeness and thrive?

Lori Ryker of the Artemis Institute explains, “Place seeps into us over time, becoming who we are.  We must lie in its shadows and become a part of its day to day occurrences….As you come to know a particular place, its once identifiable qualities blur into continuous experience.”  That could just be the “zone” that we all seek.  For more information about real estate in the resort areas, contact Rick Allemang at (970) 547-1002.