22346 Rickard Ranch Rd, Yorkville, CA 95494 - Mendocino County

The Billings Creek Ranch Tucked in the hills between Yorkville and the Southern Mendocino County Coast is a lovely, peaceful, and private 160-acre ranch that will give you the seclusion and privacy you have longed for. Featuring southern exposure, open grassland and forests of hardwood and softwood, hilltops, and canyon bottoms, this ranch has it all. In terms of water, again this ranch rises above most with spring water, Billings Creek a year-round creek with Steelhead and Salmon, numerous seasonal streams, an abundant well, and even a spring fed pool to attract wildlife. Did I mention privacy? It has end of the road privacy with no easements through it. Wild game includes deer, wild pigs, wild turkeys and all of the critters and birds of the north coast. For the hunter in the family, this area is known as some of the finest wild boar hunting in California.

Improvements include, several acres of quality deer fenced ground, that houses a small but very well-done cabin with a loft bedroom, that is heated by a woodstove and it has an on-demand gas hot water system. In addition, there is a large shop building housing a solar system on the roof and a 15 Kv diesel powered generator. At the end of that shop building is a good-sized greenhouse for production of home-grown vegies, an essential element to any rural homestead. Other improvements include a very well-built outbuilding near the cabin that can be a shop and storage or could easily be a guest quarters with some finishing, an RV hookup site with large concrete patio, a septic system, and an out of site container box for dry storage. This is an ideal place to get away from it all, and to use as a launch point to visit the coast, 30 minutes away, or sip some wine in the Anderson Valley.

There is plenty of room to build a more substantial home in the fenced compound, or there are two high building sites with commanding vews to the south that include Rock Pile Peak, and other ranges beyond.

Access is great, with the mostly paved county road, called Fish Rock Road, then on a rocked joint road called Richard Ranch road, to a private gated driveway. Other notable ranches in the region are the Milliard Ranch, The Circle F ranch and the Cooley Ranch. After 20 years, life changes dictate that the ranch be sold. You could be the next to enjoy this magical, peaceful, private, and lovely ranch.