This Aspen Estate Thinks It’s Its Own National Park
This place is basically its own compound just outside downtown Aspen. It sits on more than 74 acres with a main house by a private lake, several extra houses, and its own trails and river frontage. It was built in the mid-90s and has been added to and cared for over decades. The price puts it in the extreme luxury range, and the scale is way beyond a typical mountain home.
Specifications
- Address: 161 Stillwater Road, Aspen, CO 81611, United States
- Price: $300,000,000 USD
- Bedrooms: 18
- Bathrooms: 20 full, 4 partial
- Interior Sq. Ft: 27,426 sq ft
- Lot Size: 74.1 acres
- Year Built: 1994
- Property Type: Single family home / multi-residence compound
- Status: Available
- Property Taxes: $131,755 per year
- Main Residence: 18,466 sq ft, known as “Little Lake Lodge”
- Future Residence Allowance: Approved and engineered plans for an additional 19,750 sq ft home
- Guest / Staff Home: 5,286 sq ft modern riverfront home (built 2014) with all en suite baths and heated two-car garage
- Additional Residences: 2,432 sq ft alpine-style home (3 beds, 3 baths) and 1,024 sq ft home (2 beds, 2 baths)
- Pool: 80-foot infinity-edge pool
- Water Features: Private trout-filled lake and Roaring Fork River frontage
- Trails: Miles of marked trails, groomed in winter for cross-country skiing
- Outdoor Spaces: Covered and open-air terraces
- Parcels: Four separate land parcels
Mountain lodge vibes. stone and wood stacked just right.
Okay, the wildflower meadow at sunset is doing all the heavy lifting.
Mirror-still pond with the mountains doubled. I’d park a chair here.
Bedroom is full log walls. Looks warm enough to hibernate.
Those beams are massive. Feels a cathedral for flannel.
Hallway flex. mahogany panels and stone, softly lit a boutique hotel.
If I sit here, I’m never leaving. Windows wrap all the way around.
Green cabinets with wood accents. Cozy without trying too hard.
Same green kitchen, but check the tile and beams. Sunshine doing its thing.
Arched windows make the trees look framed. Afternoon nap zone.
Mahogany everywhere, but the high ceiling keeps it from feeling heavy.
Great room goes full lodge. soaring beams and a whole lot of wood.
Details
This is the kind of place where you don’t really need to leave the property unless you want to go into town for dinner. The estate sits about a mile from downtown Aspen, close enough that you can walk or bike along the river, but once you’re on the land it feels very private and tucked into the mountains. It’s spread over four parcels and more than 74 acres, so it feels less like a single house and more like a small, self-contained retreat.
The main home, called Little Lake Lodge, is huge at over 18,000 square feet and sits right on its own lake, with mature landscaping and natural vegetation that have clearly been looked after for years. On top of that, there are multiple other houses, including a newer modern home on the Roaring Fork River built in 2014 for guests or staff, plus two smaller alpine-style places with their own bedrooms and baths.
One of the big selling points is that the owners already worked out approvals with the county to allow a future second residence nearly 20,000 square feet in size, which is much larger than what’s normally permitted here. Those plans are fully designed by an award-winning local architecture firm and are included. Outside, the property is set up for people who actually like to be on the land: there are miles of marked trails that get groomed for cross-country skiing in winter, a trout-filled lake, an 80-foot infinity pool, and direct river frontage. Wildlife and birds are a regular part of the setting. For someone looking for a long-term family base in Aspen, this is less about a single house and more about creating a multi-generation compound that feels like its own private mountain ecosystem, but still sits only a few minutes from everything in town.