Breckenridge CO Homes For Sale

A small city with a population of barely three thousand, Breckenridge, Colorado is known for the fact that it has many part-time residents who vacation in the area but live elsewhere. A popular ski resort during the winter months, the area is known particularly as one offering ski slopes of varying difficulties along the Rocky Mountains. Breckenridge is a small city with a lot to offer in terms of events, entertainment and fun.

Breckenridge CO homes for sale are numbered at 1,673. Breckenridge Colorado homes for sale as of mid-July 2010 had an average listing price of about $861,000, which represents an increase of 0.5%, or more than $4,000, compared to the week before.

Throughout the year, various public events are held in Breckenridge. The International Snow Sculpture Championships in January draws as many visitors as the summer hosting of the Fourth of July Celebration. Music reigns supreme in the city with performances sponsored by the National Repertory Orchestra and the Breckenridge Music institute.

Outdoor enthusiasts are in heaven in Breckenridge and the ski area occupies four of the ten mountains that form the Ten Mile Range. The city has hosted a World Cup race and the Snowboarder Hall of Fame. One newer event, The Winter Dew Tour, is unique because it offers to snowboarders the one-of-a-kind opportunity to ride on the biggest half-pipe in the United States.

The many hiking and biking trails, wild flowers, Blue River fly-fishing, boating and white water rafting along Lake Dillon draw countless sports people to the area. For the less sports and more shopping inclined, the attractive shops that lay scattered up and down Main Street have a very specific appeal.

Founded in 1859 during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush. Breckenridge CO served miners working the Blue River where the richer placer gold deposits were found. When it became apparent that the source of the gold was in the veins in the hills, prospectors soon took on the process of hard-rock mining. One early prospector was Edwin Carter, a de facto naturalist who collected wildlife specimens which he kept in his log cabin. The Breckenridge Heritage Alliance recently renovated the cabin that was constructed in 1875. Its many interactive exhibits are open to the public.

Main Street is the hub of the Historic District, where there are many things to see, learn and do. The fully restored Barney Ford House Museum, which was built by Barney Ford, a runaway slave, is one museum no visitor or resident of Breckenridge should miss.

Several films have been shot wholly or in part in Breckenridge CO and while this may not make the area exactly a movie-making matrix, the city is a place of intense beauty, spectacular landscape and a healthy invigorating lifestyle.