$2,500,000

Foots Creek Ranch | Large Acreage Legacy Land Opportunity in Southern Oregon

Foots Creek Ranch is a rare large-acreage offering featuring approximately 900 acres in the Foots Creek area of Gold Hill. The property combines scale, privacy, seasonal creek frontage, public land adjacency, merchantable timber, water rights, residential improvements, and recreation potential in an accessible Southern Oregon location near I-5.

The ranch includes wooded terrain, usable ground, internal roads, mountain and territorial views, a home, cabin, 32' x 48' shop, and 24' x 36' storage building. Together, these features create a strong foundation for recreation, timber management, long-term ownership, and future planning.

Legacy Land Opportunity

Large Southern Oregon land holdings with this combination of acreage, access, natural beauty, water resources, timber, and residential utility are increasingly difficult to find. Foots Creek Ranch offers nearly 900 acres for buyers seeking a private recreational ranch, timber property, hunting retreat, conservation-minded holding, or long-term rural estate.

Water Rights and Creek Frontage

Foots Creek Ranch includes 78 acres of water rights and significant seasonal creek frontage. The property has approximately 3,225 feet along seasonal Foots Creek and approximately 1,930 feet along seasonal Left Fork Foots Creek, creating over 5,000 feet of combined seasonal creek frontage. The water rights and seasonal creek corridors add utility, habitat, scenic value, and land diversity to the ranch. 

Marketable Timber

Foots Creek Ranch includes a timber component. According to the 2016 timber cruise conducted by Adderbury, the property included an estimated 1.6 million board feet of merchantable fir, along with pine, cedar, maple, oak, and madrone. The seller reports there has been no commercial logging since the 2016 timber cruise.

The timbered landscape contributes to privacy, wildlife habitat, recreation, and scenic appeal, with potential for future forest management, fuels reduction, habitat enhancement, or timber-related planning, subject to buyer due diligence and professional forestry review.

Recreation, Wildlife, and Public Land Adjacency

Foots Creek Ranch offers strong recreational potential for hunting, hiking, horseback riding, ATV use on the subject property, wildlife viewing, camping, and exploring. Located in the Applegate Unit, the ranch offers habitat diversity for blacktail deer, bear, elk, and other regional wildlife. The property also adjoins public land, expanding the overall landscape feel and adding meaningful appeal for buyers who value privacy, recreation, and access to a larger outdoor setting.

Location and Climate

Foots Creek Ranch is located near Gold Hill with easy access to Interstate 5, Medford, Grants Pass, regional services, airports, medical facilities, shopping, dining, and employment centers. The property offers rural privacy without feeling remote.

Elevations range from approximately 1,280 feet to 1,880 feet, supporting a temperate year-round climate with limited winter snow compared to many higher-elevation ranch properties.

Gentle Topography and Usable Ground

The ranch offers a desirable mix of moderately sloping land, usable areas, and limited steep hillside compared to many properties of this size. This supports access, recreation, timber management, wildlife movement, and long-term planning.

Natural Beauty and Setting

Foots Creek Ranch captures the natural beauty Southern Oregon is known for, with mountain and territorial views, wooded hillsides, seasonal creek frontage, wildlife habitat, and a private rural setting.

Existing Homesites and Infrastructure

The property includes a single-story home and cabin, helping preserve two established homesite locations. Supporting infrastructure includes four domestic wells, two septic systems, electricity, internal roads, a 32' x 48' shop, and a 24' x 36' storage building.

Reported well outputs are 60 GPM, 30 GPM, 12 GPM, and 3 GPM. These improvements provide meaningful utility for current use and future planning while preserving the primary appeal of the ranch as a large land, timber, water, and recreation holding.

Development Potential

The subject property is comprised of 9 tax lots. A preliminary review of County records indicates that 37-4W-1DC TL 201 and 37-4W-12 TL 100 are considered one legal parcel. It is currently unknown how many of the remaining tax lots would be recognized as legal parcels, or whether additional legal parcels may underlie the existing tax lot configuration.

As a first step toward future development planning, a parcel legality determination is recommended. Additional residential opportunities may be possible depending on parcel legality findings, land use review, replacement dwelling eligibility, property line adjustments, partitioning, or other Jackson County requirements. Buyer to perform all independent due diligence.

Southern Oregon Ranch and Recreation Property

Foots Creek Ranch is a rare opportunity to acquire a large Southern Oregon land holding with scale, access, water resources, merchantable timber, seasonal creek frontage, public land adjacency, wildlife habitat, recreation potential, and existing residential utility. Located near Gold Hill, I-5, Medford, and Grants Pass, the ranch offers a unique balance of privacy and convenience for buyers seeking a legacy land opportunity, recreational retreat, timber property, hunting ranch, or long-term rural holding.