Pull Off Ruddy Duck Road and Exhale

Land Description

Owner Financing:

- $300 down (plus the $250 doc fee)

- $300 down $325/Mo for 84 months (plus prorated taxes and a $12/Mo note maintenance fee)

Your Own Quiet, and No One to Tell You How to Spend It

Maybe you have had land on the brain for a while now. You drive past empty country on the way to work and think, someday. Pull off Ruddy Duck Drive and someday gets a good deal closer. Two and a quarter acres of pine and cedar, manzanita at your boots, the air clean and thin at forty-four hundred feet, and not one soul around to tell you what color to paint the mailbox you have not built yet.

The Sprague River runs trout water a few minutes off, and Klamath County keeps more than a hundred lakes, rivers, and streams for the days you want to wet a line. Camp here through the warm months, run the high-country trails, golf a different local course most days of the week, and when the light goes long get the binoculars out for the Pacific Flyway moving overhead. This is the kind of ground you have had in the back of your mind for years, except now it comes with an address.

Let me give it to you plain about the logistics. Access is by maintained dirt road off Ruddy Duck Drive, a couple of minutes from the highway. There is a power line running along Ruddy Duck, so you can tie in, or lean on solar and a generator and stay off the grid entirely (the sun shows up out here far more often than it does not). Water would come from a well or a hauled holding tank, and waste would be handled by septic, both of those once the property is yours. Taxes run low enough that they will not be the thing that keeps you up at night.

Plenty of folks mean to get a piece of ground of their own their whole lives and never quite do. This stretch of the Klamath high country has been quiet a long time, and there is room in it for a story with your name on it.

Subdivision: Klamath Falls Forest Estates

STREET Address: N/A, near Ruddy Duck Dr, Bonanza, OR 97623

State: Or

COUNTY: Klamath County, Or

Zip: 97623

Size: 2.26 acres

LOT Dimensions: 502 feet x 194 feet

Apn: 469200

Legal Description: Lot 28 , Block 48 Of Klamath Falls Forest Estates, Highway 66 Unit, Plat No. 2, According To The Official Plat Thereof On File In The Office Of The County Clerk Of Klamath County, Oregon,

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Lat/Long Coordinates:

Nw: 42.272530, -121.396895

Ne: 42.272546, -121.395050

Sw: 42.272003, -121.396906

Se: 42.271993, -121.395049

Elevation: 4,434 feet

ANNUAL Taxes: Approx. $145 per year

ZONING: (R-2) Rural Residential - Site built, mobile homes & manufactured homes are okay. The building code that Klamath County uses allows houses as small as 300 sq. ft. RV's are allowed for camping but not as a permanent residence. Camping is allowed for up to 21 days every 6 month period. Permits only required if staying for more than one week at a time. Tiny homes on trailer frames are registered by DMV as an RV so fall under the camping regulations. No time limit to Klamath County, OR Planning and Zoning Department at Phone: Option 4, for more info.

FLOOD Zone: Unsure

HOA/POA: No

IMPROVEMENTS: None

ACCESS: The property can be accessed via Ruddy Duck Dr.

WATER: Would be a well, water haul and holding tank or other similar option

SEWER: Would be by Septic

UTILITIES: There is a power line along Ruddy Duck Dr. Phone by cellular, satellite Tv/Internet/Phone