Vallecito Lake real estate
Homes on and around Vallecito Lake, with the agent who actually works this road and knows which ones come with homework.
Wake up to this.
Eight reasons this place gets under your skin
Not a sales pitch — every one of these is on the rest of this site, with the receipts. (Why an independent guide carries a realtor page.)
A wilderness for a backyard
You border the Weminuche — Colorado's largest wilderness, nearly half a million acres that can never be subdivided or built on.
2,720 acres of open water
Twelve miles of shoreline at 7,665 feet — room for pontoons, kokanee, and a paddle before the wind comes up.
Summer tops out in the low 80s
At 7,665 ft the afternoons stay mountain-cool while the low country bakes — the normal July high is about 81°.
45 minutes to Durango
Twenty-three miles of mountain road to town — Mercy Hospital's ER, restaurants, and everything a real mountain town has.
Skies dark enough for the Milky Way
Almost no light pollution at altitude — the night sky here is the real show, best on a new moon in fall.
A town that works in winter
The county plows CR 501 as a Level 1 road, the school bus runs the lake, and a CAAS-accredited fire & ambulance district covers you year-round.
Rent it out when you're away
Unincorporated La Plata County: collect lodging tax, no short-term-rental permit required — income while it isn't your season.
Fiber is coming up CR 501
Clearnetworx is stringing a grant-funded fiber build toward the lake — cable's already on the poles, though lake addresses aren't lit yet.
Julie Coffelt
Julie isn't commuting to this market; she's lives in it. Twenty-five years in the Four Corners area, 21 of those living at Vallecito, raising a family. She knows the area and all that it has to offer.
She came to real estate from aviation and as a voice transcriptionist for closed captioning, where a skipped checklist item isn't a typo, it's a problem at altitude, and communicating for the hearing impaired helped her discover her true passion: helping people navigate some of life’s biggest transitions with confidence and clarity. That's how she runs a closing: nothing missed, calm when it counts. She knows the questions lake buyers don't know to ask like well-permit status, septic acceptance, road-maintenance agreements, WUI insurance. That homework is her home turf
Associate Broker · CO License FA.100086311 · Coldwell Banker Mountain Properties, 785 Main Ave, Durango
Julie's listings around the lake
Julie's active listings — reviewed weekly for accuracy. Tap any card for the full photo set and details on Coldwell Banker.
The showpiece of Julie’s current board — freshest to market.
View on Coldwell BankerOn CR 500 — the Vallecito road itself, minutes from the water.
View on Coldwell BankerOut along Grimes Creek, which runs down into the lake — newer build in the watershed.
View on Coldwell BankerAlso right on the Vallecito road (CR 500), in the heart of the lake corridor — recently reduced from $675,000.
View on Coldwell Banker3,136 sq ft — the roomiest home on Julie’s board right now.
View on Coldwell BankerThree-quarters of an acre of Durango-side land — bring your blueprints and build your basecamp.
View on Coldwell BankerSee Julie's live inventory on Coldwell Banker
Listing details and photos courtesy of Coldwell Banker, used with permission — deemed reliable but not guaranteed. This page is reviewed weekly; the live inventory link always has the very latest.
It comes with homework — that's the point
Buying up here isn't like buying in town. Wells have permit classes. Septic needs an acceptance inspection at sale. Winter access, road-maintenance agreements, and wildfire (WUI) insurance are all part of the deal — and none of it is in the glossy brochure.
That's exactly why you want the local who does this every week. Julie has walked buyers through every bit of it, so the surprises happen before closing, not after. Here's the full buyer's rundown if you want to read ahead.
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