Your Guide to Buying a Home in Hotchkiss, CO

Buying a Home in Hotchkiss, Colorado

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Hotchkiss is located in Delta County

Population: 968 Hotchkiss, a pastoral valley brimming with bountiful orchards, antique shops and sweeping vistas, also hosts the Delta County Fair. Stop in for a bite to eat, a sweet treat, or just "chew the fat" with one of the locals. An old country community filled with history, local lore and friendly folks. This town, set in breathtaking scenery will inspire you, remind you of days past and invite you to return for more.

Hotchkiss is located in Western Colorado approxmately 65 miles southeast of Grand Junction. Hotchkiss is the hub of roads that spoke out to all local communities, scenic attractions, and the world beyond.

State Highway 92, link to US-50 at Delta, continues through Hotchkiss to Crawford, Crawford Dam Recreation Area, Blue Mesa Lake, US-50 and Gunnison. State Highway 133 branches at Hotchkiss for Paonia, Paonia Dam, McClure Pass, eventually I-70.

County roads ray out in all directions. One leads south to Smith Fork Canyon and Black Canyon National Monument; another, climbing Leroux Creek, passes Hanson's Castle on the way to fishing and hunting country among Grand Mesa reservoirs. (Hotchkiss is also centrally located to elk and deer haunts.) Other roads wind through valley and mesa farmlands to Midway, Lazear, Eckert and Cedaredge.

But roads lead toward Hotchkiss during fair days in August when the town hosts the Delta County Fair and Rodeo at the fairgrounds, and provides overnight camping facilities.

With its face to the sun and a mountain at its back, Hotchkiss enjoys open winters with bright days and light snows. Night temperatures rarely touch zero, even though this a mountain town 5,400 feet above sea level.

Surrounding valley and mesa lands produce cherries, peaches, apples, apricots, and pears. Large cattle and sheep operations are based here, and local dairies frequently top state production records.

Within its city limits, Hotchkiss has a population approaching 937, but its businesses and facilities serve 4,000 more in the vicinity. Available in town are a bank, motels, restaurants, pubs; department, variety, apparel, liquor and grocery stores; pharmacy, gift, barber and beauty shops; self-service laundries, hardware, lumber and farm supply firms; garages and service stations, locker plant and antique shops.

Professional services include those of physicians at the North Fork Clinic which has branches in both Hotchkiss and Paonia - dentist, chiropractor, attorneys and veterinarians. Besides in-town businesses, Hotchkiss is the center of some 30 home-based industries ranging from heavy construction to gunsmithing. Speciality shops provide outlets for the growing number of handcrafters in the North Fork Valley-woodworkers, potters, weavers, workers in leather, precious stone, silver and gold.

The studios of several professional artists and art teachers cluster around Hotchkiss, nucleus of the largest art organization in the county, the Hotchkiss Fine Arts Association. this group sponsors the annul Black Canyon Art Exhibit, an open show where local artists compete on equal terms with painters from other states.

Churches are numerous in Hotchkiss, as are social, fraternal and service groups. A public library and museum share Memorial Hall which also serves as a community center. Hotchkiss schools span all grades, kindergarten through high school.