Lots of raw land for sale (and lease) in California from Death Valley to the Oregon border. Big acreage pieces too.

We might have just what you are looking for...

5 acres on Highway 395 in Cartago, CA.  Flat, surveyed, subdividable, with

Olancha Peak and eastern sierra views. $59K

2.27 acres at the mouth of Jawbone Canyon, paved access, Kern County, click for all the details. SOLD

4.51 acres near new CA City Blvd and Highway 14 interchange - will sell on terms!  $16K 

Owner financing available -- no qualifying or banks involved. 

(email or call anytime for more info, land requests, to buy, or for help with selling, 760-935-4089)

owensdrylake@hotmail.com

Trades welcome: currently looking for more farm land, recreational vehicles, vintage travel trailers, construction work, well drilling, and, a small farm tractor or backhoe.

Owens Valley Land Co-op: with only 1.7% of land available for private ownership in Inyo County it makes sense to pool our resources - email with interest.

      "Of the millions who visit or pass through the Owens Valley each year, most are in a rush to reach the wilderness playground to the north or enter the solitude of the backcountry; there is little time to stop for stories. Many do stop at real estate offices in Lone Pine and Bishop to inquire about property for sale, perhaps with a thought to moving into the valley; It is an appealing idea: an easy four-hour drive from Los Angeles, a nearly pristine landscape, picturesque towns, breathtaking scenery, and unparalleled recreation. But most would-be residents are surprised to learn that only a fraction of valley lands are privately owned, and available property is scarce; With a countrywide population of just under 20,000, the Owens Valley is an anomaly in a state with thirty-five million people; Inyo County's 1.8 people per square mile placed against the 217.2 people per square mile in the rest of the state speaks clearly to the urban/rural dichotomy of the modern West. In 2003, one of every two people living west of the one hundredth meridian - John Wesley Powell's West - was living in California, and among those, fully two-thirds are in the state's urban centers.
     Those who yearn to escape to the Owens Valley and places like it, looking for a life, presumably, of greater simplicity and free of the burdens of city living, can be reminded that others, lured by similar ambitions, once "went West." "To be an American in to move on," writes Kathleen Norris - "as if we could outrun change."4 They will know, too, after hearing the stories of these fourteen people, about the profound sense of place environments like the Owens Valley can engender, and how the burdens of a tumultuous historical legacy are evident in the very landscape itself. In this long land of the West, we have all met, yet someone coming into its astonishing emptiness for the first time might well ask if history of any consequence has taken place there at all." (206)

 

Wehrey, Jane

Voices From This Long Brown Land

New York: Palgrave MacMillan

February 2, 2006

 

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