Photos of Cherokee Ranch and Castle

Photos of Cherokee Ranch and Castle: The photo located above is of the Cherokee Ranch Castle in Douglas County Colorado. This photo the morning of July 7th, 2012 at 5:40am. Built in the 1920’s this landmark is and an architectural masterpiece echoing 1450′s Scotland. The panoramas of the Rocky Mountains include hundreds of miles of plains, plateaus and pinnacles, giving you a view all along the Front Range. Guided Tours are typically conducted every other Thursday and every other Saturday at 9:30 a.m. and are 1 – 1/2 hours long.

Photo Gallery of Cherokee Ranch and Castle

A Brief History of Cherokee Ranch & Castle

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.

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