3,000 Acres in Lake City, KS - $6,825,000
Truly a rare opportunity is the "Sun Dance Ranch", located in the heart of the best hunting that Kansas has to offer. Setting along the famed "Medicine River" and backed by the beauty of the "Gyp Hills", this area is well known to be the best of the best. The ranch is special in that it encompasses all that is Barber County. Several miles of Medicine River bottoms and timber blends into large acres of tillable fields and open grass flats the climb up into the red cedar buttes of the Gyp Hills. It’s the full palate of habitat. All the best in hunting with great Rio's, abundant waterfowl, and the biggest monster deer. Beyond the hunting, there is great scenery and building sites for a family cabin or a corporate lodge that would be set in some of America's richest western history. The "Sun Dance Ranch", a distinguished purchase for the hunter, prospector, rancher or investor.
Property Featu...
Property Features:
- A very rare opportunity to own a piece of hunting history along the Medicine River
- A large ranch that encompasses every terrain and habitat that this area of Kansas has to offer
- Finding a well rounded hunting and farming ranch with MINERALS in this area is very difficult
- Barber County is known across the country as one of the best counties in all of Kansas for big deer. The Medicine River bottom that flows through the center of the county is the "heart" of what created that reputation, it is the best hunting in Kansas.
- The mineral boom in South Central Kansas has been one of the hottest in the country and in recent years it has become rare to find any property with minerals attached, let alone a ranch of this caliber. A large majority of mineral interest transfers to the buyer on this property.
- This ranch has large stands of timber and sprinkled in are 8 tillable fields equaling 450 acres of income producing crop. The majority of the crop will be wheat, but the bottom fields also rotate soybeans, alfalfa and milo.
- There is approximately 2,000 acres of grazing and numerous pastures with good fences. The grazing will produce an excellent additional income. The grass in this area is highly sought after by ranchers.
- There are 3 large ponds and numerous small ponds that average several acres in size scattered throughout the ranch. The waterfowl opportunities in this area are excellent and most birds are never hunted. This ranch already boasts an outstanding waterfowl population and it could be improved upon to be considerably better.
- This ranch is a piece of history, the Kiowa Indians found healing powers in the saline water that flowed in the river, that is the reason it was named the "Medicine River". Every summer they would celebrate this along the rivers banks, they called it the "Sun Dance".
- Genetics for big deer here have been documented over many years, there are several 200"+ deer and numerous 170"+ deer taken along the river every single season. This ranch has had limited hunting pressure in the past and is currently strictly managed. The Rio Grande turkey also calls this area home and this ranch is no exception, turkey hunters be prepared to be covered up in gobblers.
- There are numerous areas that are designated as food plots over and above the existing tillable acres creating a property that will allow for many, many choices for numerous hunters. In addition there are (6) 3000 lb. Outback spincast feeders that will stay with the ranch.
- Please contact agent for all showings, additional information pertaining to income, farming and grazing, mineral information, taxes, etc.
- Located just 10 minutes northwest of Medicine Lodge; 2 hours southwest of Wichita; 5 hours southwest of Kansas City; 3 hours northwest of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; 8 hours southest of Denver, Colorado
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