If a home buyer were just looking for seclusion, as opposed to the drop-dead views surrounding the house Kentwood agent Jennifer Markus just listed in Roxborough Park, they couldn’t find anything remotely like this.

“It’s probably the most beautiful home I have ever seen,” said Markus about her $8.4 million listing at 3755 N. Rampart Range Road, Littleton. She was ranked as Kentwood Company’s top-selling agent last year.

Fountain Formation rocks

Anyone who has been inside the custom community of Roxborough Park knows the road passes the guard gate, then wraps a two-mile track through the hogbacks that becomes increasingly more scenic as it gets close to the Fountain Formation red rocks.

Those rocks are the headliner next door at Roxborough State Park, but also at Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre, on Boulder’s Flatirons, and at Garden of the Gods. But this home is far closer to the scenery than any other, not just in Roxborough, but Ravena or any of the estate communities along the foothills.

The state park map shows why. Amid its 3,400 acres dotted with formations, Markus’ listing appears as a white box of private land surrounded by park. Flanking its eight acres are several of the park’s 300-million-year-old sentinels.

Those ruddy surroundings are a match to the home’s Italianate design in limestone set against copper gutters and a red tile roof. The style is Tuscan, including San Gimignano tower elements. But Markus, with plenty of experience in palazzos, said it’s a mistake to see this as a 400-year-old Italian farmhouse

“It’s very earthy and has a warm feel, far warmer than some of the homes I see in Cherry Hills, where the large volumes feel like dead space,” Markus said.

That said, this house has seven suites, each with en-suite baths (10 baths total), with a primary suite with a copper soak tub and steam shower. The plan shows mixed-species wood floors and limestone tile, reclaimed wood beams (from LoDo’s Ice House makeover), and a kitchen with a steam oven, warming drawer, beverage fridge and dual copper sinks. There’s a theater, offices, three laundries, a dog-wash, garages/workshops with nine bays, and artisan copper, ironwork and stained glass.

Eight acres

At $8.4 million, Markus notes that this is far from the most expensive home on the market and that those are selling. In the premium areas of Cherry Hills, Greenwood Village, Castle Pines and Littleton, there are 15 homes for sale above $7 million, two of them pending sales. With eight acres, this one is by far the largest acreage.

“If you want something private with this city access, there isn’t much else to choose from,” she adds.

With headlines focused on what Colorado might be losing from its corporate base, Markus said the luxury market is swift (a Cherry Hills listing went for a reported $9.75 million last month, sold off-market).

“People still want to come to Colorado and big money is being spent here,” she said.

The access to this is not through the state park; rather, it’s through the community of Roxborough Park, where it’s beyond Arrowhead Golf Club and a second security gate, then another mile deep into the park.

BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

WHERE:  3755 N. Rampart Range Road, Littleton; from C-470 head south on Wadsworth/Highway 121 four miles to a left onto Waterton Road, follow Waterton 1.6 miles to Rampart Range Road, turn right on Rampart, 2 miles to the security gate.

SIZE: 7 bed/10 bath, 10,756 square feet 

PRICE: $8.4 million 

WEB: MarkusDreamHomes.com

OPEN:  By appointment only 

AGENT:  Jennifer Markus, 303-817-0192