The Bighorn neighborhood of East Vail Colorado homes for sale is set high in the Rocky Mountains at about 8,000 feet west of Vail Pass.  Nestled into the verdant forests, Vail Colorado real estate in the area of Bighorn Drive is just right for discriminating buyers who enjoy summertime golf, hiking, fishing, and mountain biking, and cross-country snow sports and skiing at Vail Ski Resort.  

Bighorn Vail real estate—mountain homes and exclusive duplexes—offers convenience to Denver employment and metropolitan amenities such as Denver International Airport.  

Views of the Gore Range from Bighorn are breathtaking, and architecture unique.  Built one at a time since the 1970s, Vail Colorado homes around Bighorn come in a variety of sizes, styles, and price points.  Large five or six bedroom retreats span 6,000 to 8,000 square feet on acre lots of Vail CO real estate.  Others of these Vail homes offer a modest 1,500 to 2,500 square feet of living area on spectacular 0.2- or 0.5-acre lots in the forest.  Prices range from $350,000 to $5.5 million and up.

Bighorn Drive follows along Gore Creek and Interstate 70 to Frontage Road near Vail Golf Course.   Between Bighorn and Vail, the public Vail Golf Course was designed long ago to bring skiing guests to the area during warmer months.  It features 18 holes of championship golf with amazing vistas.  There are leagues, lessons, camps, and fun times at Vail Golf Course.

Also nearby, Vail Racquet Club offers outstanding health club amenities including fitness, tennis, swimming, and spa treatments near a mountain stream.  There are ten outdoor tennis courts (three of clay) with views of a roaring waterfalls and thick forests.  Its heated 25-meter outdoor pool is open year round, along with two large outdoor hot tubs, and sauna and steam rooms.  The 2,800-square-foot facility offers Cybex equipment and free weights, fitness classes, winter sports conditioning, personal training, a playground, and much more.   

Bighorn is popular for vacation and income properties, and is especially accommodating for property owners with primary homes in Denver, Castle Rock, and Colorado Springs.  The Town of Vail shuttle runs full time, shuttling area residents and guests to the ski villages, festivals, and lifts in Vail Village, Lionshead, and Beaver Creek.

For information about ski or golf homes, great values for luxury mountain real estate, and short sales and foreclosures, contact Joe Johns of Grand Seasons Real Estate Team and co-owner of Keller Williams Mountain Properties at (970) 471-1432.