Overview
Secluded Ranch with Income Potential
This 680-acre ranch in West Winfield, NY, offers seclusion and tranquility. The property features diverse topography, including fertile agricultural fields, river bottom, hardwood ridges, and rolling hills. It also includes river frontage, stocked ponds, and streams. The ranch has over two miles of road frontage on four different roads, including commercial frontage on State Route 20. A long, gated driveway leads to the heart of the ranch. The property includes an original, renovated farmhouse with lodge-style ambiance, as well as a second guest or caretaker's home. There are six wells on the property and security systems in place. Multiple barns are available for livestock, equipment, and hay. The pasture is fenced with eight-foot-tall game fencing. Currently a working livestock ranch and hay farm, it could be used for cattle, horses, sheep, goats, alpacas, or exotics. The pastures have live water with multiple ponds, springs, and creeks. The property has fertile soil for growing crops and abundant wildlife, including whitetail deer, coyotes, bobcats, fox, black bear, raccoons, fisher, bald eagles, turkey, and waterfowl. There is Unadilla River frontage, as well as ponds, creeks, and springs. The property also features wild apple, pear, and cherry trees, as well as elderberry bushes and wild grapes. A one-acre garden is under high fence. There is a wide variety of hardwoods and softwoods, and a sawmill is on the property. Located twenty miles northwest of Cooperstown, NY, the ranch is suited for recreation, including wildlife viewing, hunting, fishing, hiking, horseback riding, cross-country skiing, dirt biking, mountain biking, snowmobiling, and 4-wheeling. The ranch has over 35 miles of trails. The property has income potential and could be used as a country vacation business, hunting outfitter business, or for crop production and livestock. It could also be used as a winery or brewery, hemp farm, or for camping or glamping. All mineral, water, wind, and solar rights are intact.