Douglas County, Colorado
Luxury homes and acreage in Franktown
Franktown is the crossroads of Douglas County’s horse country: a community of about 400 people where Highways 83 and 86 meet, ten minutes from Castle Rock and Parker and a world apart from both. There is no town center to speak of. There are custom homes on five, ten, and thirty-five acres, pine ridges above Cherry Creek, the canyon of Castlewood, and a market that has moved steadily upscale as buyers who could live anywhere choose to live here. I represent buyers and sellers of Franktown’s larger homes and acreage, and this page is where I keep what I know about it.
Homes for sale in Franktown
Every active Franktown listing in the Denver MLS, newest first. Save the search to be notified the day something new is listed, or talk to me about what is coming that is not on the market yet.
Start of list of properties
MLS# 9460377
RE/MAX Alliance
MLS# 8727973
RE/MAX Alliance
MLS# 4728980
8z Real Estate
MLS# 8080226
RE/MAX Alliance
MLS# 6202622
Colorado Homestead Realty
MLS# 5082701
RE/MAX Accord
MLS# 6030216
RE/MAX Alliance
MLS# 9681062
eXp Realty, LLC
MLS# 5201114
eXp Realty, LLC
MLS# 2892763
eXp Realty, LLC
MLS# 2786564
Compass - Denver
MLS# 7970892
HomeSmart
MLS# 1610345
Signature Estates LLC
MLS# 6185224
RE/MAX Alliance
MLS# 7288971
RE/MAX Alliance
MLS# 8898428
Equity Colorado Real Estate
MLS# 2748980
Keller Williams Advantage Realty LLC
MLS# 7022483
Trelora Realty, Inc.
MLS# 5482752
Compass - Denver
MLS# 6848315
Brokers Guild Real Estate
MLS# 3831203
RE/MAX Alliance
MLS# 9247608
eXp Realty, LLC
Why Franktown has become a luxury market
Franktown was farm and ranch country for most of its history, and the ground still looks that way. What has changed is who is buying it. Over the past several years the homes going up here have grown larger and more finished: custom builds with detached shops, barns, guest quarters, and outdoor living designed around the views west to the Front Range and Pikes Peak. Buyers come for privacy, land, and dark skies, with the practical advantage that Castle Rock’s hospital, shopping, and I-25 are ten miles one way and Parker’s are ten miles the other. The result is a small market where a meaningful share of sales are well into seven figures, and where the difference between a good purchase and a poor one usually comes down to the land rather than the house.
I sold the eight-acre estate at 9141 Red Primrose Street here, and I work Franktown from both sides: helping buyers evaluate acreage properly, and giving sellers a marketing program built for a buyer who is searching by lifestyle rather than by ZIP code.

Franktown neighborhoods and acreage communities
Much of Franktown is un-platted acreage described by metes and bounds, but several established communities anchor the market: Fox Hill, Bannockburn, Russellville, Deerfield, Flintwood Hills, Burning Tree, and Whispering Pines among them, most of them on lots of several acres with covenants that vary from strict to nearly none. Which one fits depends on what you want to do with the land, whether you want horses, a shop, or simply distance from the next house, and how much of the maintenance you want to own. I can walk you through the differences in an afternoon.
What I check on every Franktown property
Acreage carries responsibilities that a subdivision home does not, and the listing rarely tells you about them. These are the items I work through before a client writes an offer.
The well
Permit type and allowed uses (household only, or livestock and irrigation too), Division of Water Resources records, depth, production, and whether the well on the ground matches the well on paper.
The septic system
Douglas County On-Site Wastewater Treatment System records, the system’s age and rated capacity, and whether the advertised bedroom count is the count the system was permitted for.
Zoning and covenants
What Douglas County allows on the parcel, what the covenants add on top of that, animal and outbuilding allowances, and agricultural status and its effect on property taxes.
Access and easements
Legal access, shared drives, recorded easements, utility routes, and fence lines that may not match the survey. On larger parcels a current survey is money well spent.
Permits and outbuildings
Building-permit history on the house, the shop, the barn, and any addition. Unpermitted work is common on rural property and becomes the buyer’s problem at resale.
Wildfire and insurance
Defensible space, roof and siding materials, and whether the property is insurable at a reasonable premium. This has become a real factor in the pine country along the Palmer Divide, and I raise it early.
Selling a Franktown home
The buyer for a Franktown estate is often coming from the Denver Tech Center, out of state, or another acreage community, and is searching by lifestyle: views, land, horses, a shop, privacy. My listings here get drone and cinematic video that shows the land as clearly as the house, an interactive parcel map with boundaries and terrain, placement on Zillow Showcase, Homes.com, Land.com, and HorseProperties.net alongside the Sotheby’s International Realty global platform, and a preparation plan that has the well, septic, survey, and permit records ready before the first showing. The full program is on the Signature Listing Services page; the Sell page explains how I price.
Castlewood Canyon, Franktown Cave, and the Grange
Franktown’s history is unusually visible for a place this small. Castlewood Canyon State Park, just south of the crossroads, holds the ruins of the Castlewood Dam, built in 1890 and leaking from the year it was finished; when it collapsed on August 3, 1933, it sent a flood down Cherry Creek all the way to downtown Denver. The park’s trails, cliffs, and the canyon of Cherry Creek are among the best day hikes on the Front Range. Franktown Cave, a rock shelter used by people for thousands of years, is one of Colorado’s most important archaeological sites. The Pikes Peak Grange No. 163, founded in 1908 and still active, sits on the National Register of Historic Places, and the Franktown School Museum keeps the story of the settlement that was, briefly, the seat of Douglas County.
- Castlewood Canyon State Park, Colorado Parks & Wildlife
- Franktown Cave, Colorado Encyclopedia
- Franktown history, Wikipedia
Where Franktown sits
Questions buyers ask about Franktown
How far is Franktown from Denver?
Roughly 35 to 40 miles to downtown Denver, depending on the route; Castle Rock and I-25 are about ten miles west, and Parker about ten miles north on Highway 83. The Denver Tech Center is a common commute.
Is Franktown a town?
No. It is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Douglas County, which means county zoning, county roads, and no municipal services. That is part of the appeal, and part of what a buyer needs to understand.
Can I keep horses in Franktown?
On most acreage parcels, yes, subject to county zoning and any covenants, and subject to a well permit that allows livestock watering. The equestrian property page covers what I check.
Do you sell off-market property in Franktown?
Some of the best acreage here changes hands without ever appearing on the portals. If you tell me what you are looking for, I will keep you in mind when I hear about it.
Start the conversation
Talk through Franktown
Whether you are buying acreage, selling an estate, or trying to work out what a particular parcel will and will not allow, the first step is a conversation, not a commitment.
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303-961-6956
Email Phillip
Phillip Booghier, Global Real Estate Advisor · LIV Sotheby’s International Realty · 482 W. Happy Canyon Rd., Castle Rock, CO 80108
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau 2020 (Franktown CDP); Franktown history, elevation, county-seat dates, Castlewood Dam, and Pikes Peak Grange via Wikipedia and Colorado Parks & Wildlife; Colorado Encyclopedia (Franktown Cave). Neighborhood names from the Denver MLS. Listings are live from the Denver MLS through REcolorado and update automatically.
