Yellow Hills Ranch

A Sustainable Community

A sustainable community is a place where residents maintain themselves by employing practices in the areas of land use, agriculture, and resource management that ... (the complete definition)

The Yellow Hills Ranch contains 4,743 acres located (location map) in the northwest corner of New Mexico, in Tierra Amarilla, 90 miles northwest of Santa Fe. It is a place where people, wild horses and big game mingle. Please take a look!

Photo Albums

Yellow Hills one | Yellow Hills two | Chama River | Monero Mustangs | Ghost Ranch

Location

Yellow Hills Ranch is located across the street (see overview aerial) from El Vado State Park, a 15,000 acre Wildlife Preserve managed by the New Mexico Game and Fish Department. The Ranch and the public have access to the Chama River through that Wildlife Preserve.

The Chama River (pictures) is designated as a Wild and Scenic River. The National Wild and Scenic Rivers System was created by Congress in 1968. More Information

Project Design

The design for the Ranch includes homes surrounded by a forest garden, a plan for small scale community agriculture, approximately 3,500 acres of open space that is to be part of a managed grazing program which will always remain in agricultural use. There is more information about the overall design and other details here.

Master Plan Approval

The land is currently in agricultural use, primarily for grazing. Yellow Hills LLC, the owner of the property, is working on a master plan it intends to submit to Rio Arriba County. You can find out the status of that work here ...

Monero Mustangs

Monero Mustangs is a New Mexico non-profit approved as a 501(c)3 by the IRS. It manages a herd of Mustangs on rangeland provided by Yellow Hills Ranch. Together they are working on a program with the following goals...