Tall Tree Basecamp for Adventure
Bonanza, OR 97623
Klamath County, Oregon
Land Description
2.3 acres of tall timber up near Bly Mountain Pass, off the grid and made for getting away. A base camp for the hunter, the side by side rider, the person who would rather be in the trees than anywhere else. 139 dollars a month, no bank, no credit check, and a Warranty Deed in your name at payoff. This is raw, wild Oregon, and it can be yours for about what you spend on gas in a month.
The Land, and Why I Wrote You About This One
Let me be straight with you from the first line, because this lot is not for everybody, and the right person will know it by the end of this paragraph. This is 2.3 acres of heavily treed, off grid ground in the high country east of Klamath Falls, up where Highway 140 climbs over Bly Mountain Pass. It is not a manicured homesite in a tidy subdivision. It is a wild, wooded piece of the Oregon backcountry, the kind of place you set up a camp, point the side by side at the tree line, and disappear for a weekend. If that made you lean in, keep reading. If it did not, I have other lots that might suit you better, and you should just ask me.
Here is what you would be getting. A single parcel in Klamath Falls Forest Estates, Block 76, Lot 6, on Yak Lane, 2.3 acres of standing pine in the forested uplands at around 5,000 feet. It is heavily timbered, lodgepole and ponderosa pine, the kind of cover that gives you shade, privacy, firewood, and the feel of having the woods to yourself. The land runs downhill to the north and opens up as it goes, getting wider toward the bottom, so you have room to spread out, park the trailer, set the tents, and still keep the camp and the fire well back in the trees.
And it is easy country to reach. Highway 140, the paved Klamath Falls to Lakeview highway, runs right along the bottom of the place, so you are not bouncing forty minutes down a washboard forest road to get here. You roll out of Klamath Falls on good pavement, about 35 miles, and you are at your own gate. That combination, deep woods seclusion that is still an easy drive off a state highway, is harder to find than you would think, and it is a big part of why I wanted you to see this one.
Now I am going to tell you the hard parts too, plainly, further down, because that is how I sell. The entrance off Yak Lane is steep and will take some work to drive in, and there is no power or water run to the lot. None of that is buried in fine print here. But for a hunter or an off road family looking for a base camp on real acreage, the trees, the room, the price, and the easy highway access add up to something rare.
At a Glance
Size: 2.3 acres of heavily treed ground, Block 76 Lot 6, on Yak Lane
Location: Klamath Falls Forest Estates, near Bly Mountain Pass on Highway 140, east of Klamath Falls
Best for: a hunting base camp, a side by side and off road getaway, an off grid cabin retreat
The trees: heavily timbered, lodgepole and ponderosa pine, real cover and privacy
The lay of it: runs downhill to the north and widens toward the bottom, with Highway 140 along the lower edge
Access: easy to reach off paved Highway 140, but the Yak Lane entrance is steep and needs an approach cut, more on that below
Off grid: no power, water, or internet at the lot, you bring your own or set up solar, a generator, and a water tank
Homes allowed: zoning allows a site built, manufactured, or mobile home, with no time limit to build
Monthly: 139 dollars a month for 120 months, with 139 down and a one time 250 document fee
Cash price: 9,900 dollars
HOA: none
Deed: a Warranty Deed at payoff, the highest level of deed there is in Oregon
Guarantee: a 120 day money back guarantee on terms
Raw acreage like this, treed and off grid and easy to reach, does not stay listed long at this price.
The Numbers, Plain and Simple
Here is how you would own it, and there are no tricks hidden in this part.
You put 139 dollars down and a one time 250 dollar document fee. Then you pay 139 dollars a month. That monthly is all in for what this land carries, which means your Klamath County property taxes are already folded into the payment. There is no HOA here, so there are no dues on top of it. No balloon at the end. No rate that moves on you. It is a payment you do not even feel, and it stays exactly that, month after month, until the land is yours.
I will be straight with you about the term. This one runs 120 months, a ten year note, and I set it up that way on purpose so the payment could sit down low at 139 a month on better than two acres. That is the trade, a small payment for a longer run, and you can always pay it down faster if you want to own it sooner. If you would rather not wait, cash is 9,900 dollars and the deed transfers to you at closing.
No bank. No mortgage. No credit check. I am not pulling your credit, and I am not asking a loan officer for permission to sell you a piece of dirt. You sign from your own kitchen table, the payments run automatically so you never have to think about them, and when the last one clears I file a Warranty Deed putting the land in your name. A Warranty Deed is the highest level of deed there is in Oregon, the same kind of deed you would get buying a house through a title company, and it means I am standing behind clear title, not handing you a watered down promise.
Either way, every terms purchase carries a 120 day money back guarantee. If you change your mind in the first 120 days, you get your money back, principal returned. It is the longest such guarantee I know of in owner financed land, and I offer it because I would rather you buy this sure than buy it cornered. I am not interested in talking anybody into the wrong piece of ground.
What You Can Do With It While You Pay
This is the question people ask, so let me answer it before you have to.
While you are paying it off, you hold a recreational license to come out and enjoy the land. You can drive out, walk the parcel, scout it, and camp on it up to 21 days in any six month stretch, which is what Klamath County allows on private ground, with a permit only if you are staying more than a week at a time. That is plenty for a hunting season, a string of summer weekends, or a shakedown trip with the side by side. All around you is the Fremont Winema National Forest, so the riding, the hunting, and the exploring run far past your own property line.
Now the honest part. You do not put up a permanent dwelling or move in full time until the land is paid off. You can camp it, you cannot live on it full time in an RV under county rules, and a cabin or a home comes at payoff, the day that Warranty Deed records in your name. On a ten year note that is a real wait, so go in clear eyed. If your plan is to set a cabin or a manufactured home sooner, the cash price is your path, take the deed at closing and start, or pay the note down fast. If your plan is to lock in a treed base camp cheap now and build the cabin down the road, the low payment is built for exactly that.
The Lay of the Land
Let me walk you across it the way I would if we were standing on it. You come in off Yak Lane at the top, on the south side. That entrance is steep, and I am not going to pretend otherwise, it is the one real piece of work this lot needs, and I cover it plainly in the sugarcoat section below. Once you are in, the ground falls away to the north and the parcel widens as it drops, so the usable, spread out room is below the entrance, down in the trees. At the very bottom, the land meets Highway 140, which is what makes the place so easy to reach but also means the lowest strip is near the road. The sweet spot for a quiet camp or a cabin is up in the timber, off the highway and tucked in the pines, where the trees do the work of giving you privacy and shade.
It is heavily wooded, mostly lodgepole and ponderosa pine, with the high, dry, clean air of country that sits up around 5,000 feet. The kind of place where the wind moves in the tops of the trees and you can hear it.
Off the Grid, and Why That Is the Point
I want to be plain that this is an off grid property. There is no power line, no water, and no internet run to the lot. For some buyers that is a dealbreaker, and if it is for you, that is good to know now. But for a lot of the people this land is made for, off grid is not a problem, it is the whole appeal. You set up solar or run a generator, you haul water or put in a tank, and you get something that is getting harder to buy every year, a piece of ground with nobody looking over your shoulder and no monthly utility bills. The zoning here allows a site built, manufactured, or mobile home with no time limit to build, so when you are ready to put up a cabin or set a home, the rules are on your side. There is a manufactured home on the property next door, so you can see for yourself it can be done.
Where It Sits
The parcel sits in Klamath Falls Forest Estates, in the forested high country east of Klamath Falls, right up near the 5,075 foot summit of Bly Mountain Pass on Highway 140. If you want to drop a pin, the spot is around 42.3655, minus 121.3950. This is the Klamath Falls to Lakeview highway, paved the whole way, the long state road that runs from Medford in the west clear across to the Nevada line in the east. West of you it drops down toward Klamath Falls and Upper Klamath Lake. East of you it falls into the Sprague River Valley and the cattle and timber country beyond. You are tucked into the Fremont Winema National Forest, with public land, rivers, and ranch country all around.
Let me walk you through what is out here, because the land is the start of it, not the whole of it.
The Sprague River and the Fishing
Just over the pass to the east, Highway 140 drops down alongside the Sprague River, one of the well known trout streams of this part of Oregon and a short drive from the lot. It is a slow, winding river running through ranch country and forest, with good fishing and a lot fewer people on it than the famous tailwaters. The Sycan River feeds into it from the north, and the Williamson, one of the most famous trophy trout rivers in the West, runs through the country to the west of you. For somebody who likes to fish without a crowd, this corner of the county is a quiet kind of rich.
The Hunting and the Forest
This is real hunting country, and that is a big part of what a base camp out here is for. The forested ground around Bly Mountain and the open range to the east hold mule deer and elk in the timber and high country, and pronghorn antelope out where the trees give way to sage and grass. The Fremont Winema National Forest wraps the whole area, which means thousands of acres of public land for hunting, dispersed camping, and forest roads that run for miles. Park your rig on your own treed acres, and the season opens up right out your back gate.
Riding and the OC and E Trail
If you came for the side by side or the dirt bike, you are in the right country. The Fremont Winema forest roads go on and on, climbing and dropping through timber and meadow, the kind of network you could ride all summer and not cover. And down the hill toward Klamath Falls runs the OC and E Woods Line State Trail, the longest linear state park in Oregon, a 100 mile rail trail built on the old Oregon California and Eastern railroad bed that runs from Klamath Falls all the way out to Bly. It is a long, easy grade through some beautiful country, good for biking, walking, and taking it all in. Between the forest roads and the trail, you would not run out of ground to cover.
Crater Lake and the Bigger Country
You are also within reach of some of the best known country in Oregon. Crater Lake, the deepest lake in the United States at nearly 2,000 feet and the only national park in the state, sits a bit over an hour to the north, an impossibly blue lake in the caldera of a volcano that blew its top thousands of years ago. West of you, the same Highway 140 carries you down past Upper Klamath Lake, the biggest freshwater lake in Oregon, and on up toward Lake of the Woods, Mount McLoughlin, and the Sky Lakes Wilderness, high mountain lakes and trails in the Cascades. You are off in a quiet corner, but you are not cut off from the big scenery.
Klamath Falls and Bonanza
For the day to day, the little town of Bonanza is the closest, about fifteen minutes off, the kind of place with a store, a gas pump, and a post office, enough to grab what you forgot. Klamath Falls is the real town, about 35 miles and 35 or 40 minutes west on the highway in good weather, a working small city with a hospital in Sky Lakes Medical Center, grocery and hardware stores, restaurants, a regional airport, and Oregon Tech. Folks call Klamath Falls Oregon's City of Sunshine, and there is truth in it, this side of the mountains trades the gray of western Oregon for a lot of clear, bright, blue sky days.
The Seasons Out Here
You get real seasons up here, and you should know what they are before you buy. Summers are warm, dry, and bright, the high country at its best, cool at night, long days made for being outside, which is prime season for a base camp. Fall brings the hunting, the color, and some of the finest weather of the year. Winter is real, though. Sitting up around 5,000 feet near the pass, this country gets snow, often from October into April or even May, and Highway 140 over Bly Mountain Pass can be snowy or icy in the cold months. For most buyers this is a warm season and hunting season camp, with winter trips for those set up for the snow. I would rather you picture it the way it is than be surprised at the gate in January.
Getting Here
Getting to the area is easy, and that is one of this lot's best features. From Klamath Falls you take Highway 140 east, the paved Klamath Falls to Lakeview highway, about 35 miles up over Bly Mountain Pass, and the property is right there along the road. Coordinates land around 42.3655, minus 121.3950 if you want to pull up the satellite view first. The easy part is reaching the area. The work, and I will say it again here so it is not a surprise, is the steep entrance off Yak Lane, which I cover next.
Two Things I Will Not Sugarcoat
You are going to hear nothing but straight talk from me, so here are the two things I make sure every buyer hears on this one.
First, the entrance is steep. You come in off Yak Lane at the top of the parcel, and that grade will need an approach cut to drive in cleanly, likely with a switchback, maybe two, to make it work for a truck and trailer. That is the real work this lot asks of you, and it is the main reason the price is what it is. For somebody handy, or willing to bring in a small dozer or hire it done, it is a solvable problem and a fair trade for two and a third treed acres this cheap. If you are not up for any earthwork, this is probably not your lot.
Second, it is off grid and the bottom runs to the highway. There is no power, water, or internet at the lot, so you are bringing your own, solar, a generator, a water tank, the off grid setup. That is the appeal for the right buyer and a dealbreaker for the wrong one, and you know which you are. And the lower edge of the land meets Highway 140, which is what makes it easy to reach but means the quiet, tucked in camping is up in the timber, not down by the road. None of that is hidden. It is exactly what you are buying.
And one more honest word, because it matters. This is land, not an investment promise. I will not tell you it is going to make you money or shoot up in value, because I do not know that and nobody honest does. What I will tell you is that it is 2.3 wild, treed acres you can own off grid for 139 dollars a month, with a Warranty Deed coming to your name. What it is worth to you is the camp, the hunt, the ride, and the quiet, not a number on a chart.
The Deed and the Guarantee
When the last payment clears, I file a Warranty Deed putting Klamath Falls Forest Estates, Block 76, Lot 6 in your name. A Warranty Deed is the highest level of deed available in Oregon. It is not a quitclaim, it is not a contract you have to chase, it is the real thing, with me standing behind clear title. From that day the land is yours, free and clear, to camp, build a cabin, set a home, or hold as you please within the county rules, and the taxes pass to you directly.
And the whole terms purchase is backed by a 120 day money back guarantee. If you decide in the first 120 days that it is not for you, you get your principal back. That is the longest guarantee I am aware of in this business, and I put it in writing so you never have to take my word for it.
Who I Am
You will be talking to me, Jay, not a call center and not a salesman working off a script. I find good, raw land in Klamath County, Oregon and I sell it to regular people on simple, honest terms, no bank, no credit check, with the highest deed Oregon offers waiting at the end. I would rather lose a sale than have somebody buy the wrong piece of ground from me, which is why I tell you the hard parts up front and back every terms deal with that 120 day guarantee. If you have questions, you ask me, and you get a straight answer.
What to Do Next
So picture it. Your own gate off the highway, the truck and the trailer pulled up in the pines, the side by side warmed up, a fire and a camp back in the trees, and better than two acres of Oregon timber that belong to you. The land is what you buy. The hunts, the rides, and the long quiet evenings under the trees are the reason.
If you want it, you can reserve it to hold the parcel in your name. If you would rather talk it through first, reach out and we will, no pressure either way, and I will give you the straight story on the entrance and everything else. Call or text me, Jay, at , or email Tell me you are asking about the treed acres on Yak Lane up by Bly Mountain Pass, and I will walk you through every bit of it.
Land Maps & Attachments
Directions to Land
From Klamath Falls, head east on OR-140, the Klamath Falls-Lakeview Highway, toward Lakeview. Stay on 140 through Olene and Dairy and climb up Bly Mountain, roughly 22 to 24 miles from town. The Klamath Falls Forest Estates Unit 4 lots sit on both sides of 140 near the top of the mountain. E Yak Lane is in the north section of Unit 4, and the north-side way in runs off Kingfisher Drive (some directions also use Hummingbird Drive), usually marked by a cluster of mailboxes and a gravel pull-off. Turn north off 140 into the unit, then follow the subdivision roads over to E Yak Lane and the lot, Block 76 Lot 6. Figure about 30 miles and 35 to 40 minutes total in good weather.
One honest caveat, because I won't hand you turns I can't stand behind: the last half mile inside the subdivision is a tight grid of small, thinly signed roads, and the exact turn off 140 and the final approach are best run off the GPS. Drop 42.365527, -121.394976 into Google Maps and follow the pin for the last leg. In winter the road association plows the main access roads, but Yak Lane itself can be snowed in.
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