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Escavera Homes in Castle Rock Community
By ColoradoPropertySearch.com

Nestled in the rolling hills of real estate in Castle Rock ’s pine and oak forest is the intimate community of Escavera.  Residents of Castle Rock CO homes in Escavera enjoy fantastic Front Range views, maintenance-free living, Douglas County schools, open space, and convenient recreational facilities and golf courses.  Escavera’s Castle Rock CO real estate lies at an elevation of 6,202 feet in the Plum Creek Valley where the mild climate includes more than 300 days of sunshine, clear blue skies, and less than 15 inches of precipitation each year. 

In this special environment, Escavera’s Castle Rock, Colorado homes for sale afford direct access to major metro-Denver employment centers such as the Denver Tech Center, Meridian, and Inverness Business Park within 15 miles, along with convenient major shopping centers such as Park Meadows, the Outlets at Castle Rock, and the new Founders Village Market.   Because of its central location midway between Denver and Colorado Springs along Interstate 25, the town is the county seat.  A lively calendar of community events take place in a charming historic downtown where tourists and people from surrounding communities such as Parker and Elizabeth come to experience the boutiques, cafes, restaurants, salons, spas, antique shops, and banks.

Residents of these special homes in Castle Rock—designed by David Weekley, Legacy Artisan Homes, and other custom builders—relax in the natural beauty of Escavera where the Gamble Oak and hundreds of centurion Ponderosa Pine still thrive.   David Weekley is the exclusive builder in Escavera’s “Peakview” neighborhood and offers ranch and two-story plans ranging in price from the high $300s to the $500s.  Legacy's floor plans range in size from approximately 3,122 to 4,039 square feet, plus basements.  Home prices range from the mid $700s to the mid $800s.

Living in the Escavera community offers a wide variety of recreational amenities, including:

• Wildwood Park at the heart of Escavera with its 3,500-square-foot sport court, grassy open play area, picnic pavilion, and play structures.  

• Saddleback Park, a smaller neighborhood pocket-park with a tot lot. 

• Woodlands Community Park to the west with a picnic pavilion, tennis court, tot lot, horseshoe pit, sand volleyball court, and outdoor exercise circuit. 

• Castle Rock Recreation Center accessible via over a mile of the regional paved bike-and-walking path featuring an indoor swimming pool, gymnasium, running track, fitness center, indoor basketball court, and childcare services.

• Escavera trails, part of the regional system linking community facilities, and accessing Escavera's 93 acres of open space.

The Douglas County Schools are consistently ranked among the top schools in the state and operate the elementary schools (K-6), middle school (7-8), and high school (9-12) for this area.  Newland Communities is the sole corporate sponsor of The Parent University, which, in conjunction with the Douglas County Educational Foundation, offers over 70 courses for parents to help them become engaged in their children's educational experiences.  The University Center at Chaparral, Colorado University Denver, University of Denver, and Arapahoe Community College are the closest colleges and universities.

Newland Communities, the developer, chose to keep the Escavera community small, offering only 260 home sites.  The high architectural standards, cohesive design, painstaking planning around existing landscape.  Every vantage offers magnificent views of the Rocky Mountains, colorful mature trees, and stately manicured homes.  The privately owned company creates residential communities from coast to coast, gleaning expertise in creating a special sense of community by respecting the unique history, culture, and traditions of each development.  Newland currently has nearly 40 communities underway in fourteen states.