Colorado Springtime - 340-Acre Sustainable Rocky Mountain Retreat

Our enhanced cleaning practices are at the bottom of this description. Your hosts are fully vaccinated for COVID-19.

We have expanded our vacation rental offering to include guests access to professionally designed hiking and mountain biking trails on our 340 acre mountain which is bordered by an additional 80 acres of BLM.

Serene get-away, nestled in the southern Rocky Mountains, with spectacular views of the Sangre de Cristo mountains from the deck, living room, and loft. Relax in the 7-person hot tub while enjoying the mountain views or the stars at night. Firepit with Adirondack chairs. Large deck with patio furniture, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, gas fireplace, TV viewing area, kitchen, dining room, and living room with mountain views. Hike the property and enjoy the nature and wildlife.

We consider ourselves stewards of the land and offer a choice to our guests to recycle, use 'paperless' paper towels and cloth napkins instead of single use paper products, and add to our compost. :-) Options while staying include purchasing foodstuffs from our neighbors such as organic free-range eggs, honey, and organic greenhouse vegetables. Grocery delivery, and home cooked meals are available for a fee from one of our neighbors. We want to assist our mountain community by providing opportunities for the community to serve you with (very) local choices and suppliers. If you are interested we will provide additional information, pricing and scheduling of these services.

A description and pictures of the South TBar Ranch where Soaring Eagle can be found by entering South TBar into your browser.

Bedrooms: Sleeps eight people. Chalet Room: Main floor. Incredibly comfortable queen size bed, oak beams across the ceiling are reminiscent of an Alpen chalet. Dresser, night stand, closet. Bathroom in hall.

Master Bedroom: amazingly comfortable poster queen bed, dresser, 2 nightstands, private bath: toilet, shower, walk-in closet, gas fireplace. Sliding glass door opens to deck.

Loft sleeps 4: Two twin beds and one Queen Loft also includes reading area with chair and half and ottoman and an office with large desk and chair. Mountain views from loft.

Kitchen: Beautiful, fully furnished kitchen with granite countertops and center island. Applicances: refrigerator, gas stove, microwave, toaster, blender, Keurig and drip coffee makers, Kitchen knives, utensils, dishes, flatware, glasses – just like at home.

Exterior: Large deck with patio furniture. 7-person hot tub facing mountains. Home has WiFi, TV (no cable or satellite. HDMI cable connected to TV so download anything you would like to watch. We also provide a CD/DVD player and videos.) Free wifi for phone email and internet.

Canon City area activities: 3 golf courses, horseback riding, Royal Gorge Park, Royal Gorge Scenic train ride, zip lines, rafting, Gold Medal fly fishing, Abbey Winery Tour, wolf sanctuary, Dinosaur Depot, shopping, restaurants, mountain biking trails

Caretakers/owners live in separate lower level walkout so we are available to assist you, but offer you complete privacy.

Guests agree to abide by the house rules.

Prohibited: recreational drugs including marijuana, drones, trespassing and use of other properties on the ranch, motorcycles, atv, utv, fireworks and firearms.

We live in a remote, peaceful, quiet area where everyone values their privacy. Accordingly drones and trespassing are strictly prohibited. A $200 fine will be imposed for either.

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We use sunlight in addition to other cleaning methods and products (alcohol, bleach solutions, detergent and hot water, Thieves essential oil cleaners, ....) doing our best to present our guests with a clean and healthy vacation rental stay.

"The (COVID-19) virus dies quickest in the presence of direct sunlight," said William Bryan, science and technology adviser to the Department of Homeland Security.

The CDC recommends employing ventilation as part of the cleaning process, accordingly we are now blocking 36 hours between guests so that we can open all windows and doors to allow maximum fresh air and sunlight for first 24 hours after guests have left the house. The following day cleaning includes use of a disinfectant spray on all surfaces in the house.

After thorough cleaning, e.g. alcohol wipe down on all doorknobs, light switches, faucet handles, toilet seats and flushing handles, etc. we have implemented the following:

- Soft/porous surfaces
- rugs and floor mats: after cleaning are placed in the sun.
- living room couch, loveseat, chair, ottoman, couch cushions and couch pillows:
- spray with Lysol or 70% alcohol-based spray
- washable furniture covers - After cleaning they are placed on the clothes line for several hours.

- Hard surfaces are also spray with Lysol or 70% alcohol-based spray after a thorough cleaning.

We welcome and appreciate your thoughts and suggestions on improving our cleaning and disinfecting practices.

Thank you.