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Magic Sky Ranch

Now formally known as the James C. Kennedy Mountain Campus of the University of Denver.

View Map A Front Range Foothills Gem Tucked Away in a Private Yet Convenient Locale View Map 9 Photos 1 Video Featuring Read Less Read More

Distinct topography & granite rock outcroppings
Scenic western views of the Laramie and Mummy Range
604-acre main parcel and a non-contiguous 120 acre National Forest inholding parcel
Includes its own water treatment, sewer, and fire suppression systems
Almost 60,000 square feet of building improvements
Water rights providing both irrigation and storage

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Magic Sky Ranch, now formally known as the James C. Kennedy Mountain Campus of the University of Denver, is a Front Range foothills gem tucked away in a private yet convenient locale. The property is 724 total acres and consists of diverse rolling terrain and is complete with a commercial design and buildout as a premier outdoor educational facility. Formerly owned and developed over several decades by the Girl Scouts of Colorado the campus can serve several hundred individuals at a time with state-of-the-art self-sustaining infrastructure including a dining hall, lodging cabins, offices, large activity center, equestrian center, and various outdoor improvements. Approximately 1.5 miles of South Lone Pine Creek flows through the property providing lush riparian meadows and livewater. The ranch also enjoys a private lake and a network of private trails throughout the property and linking into adjacent National Forest lands. The property will serve to provide a wholesome outdoor education component for DU students for generations to come.

Mirr Ranch Group proudly represented the Buyer in this off-market transaction. Read more about the transaction.

GSCO announces partnership with DU, sale of Magic Sky Ranch

Girl Scouts of Colorado is excited to announce a partnership with the University of Denver that includes the sale of Magic Sky Ranch to DU, as well as significant collaboration opportunities between these two, like-minded organizations.

After six years of listing Magic Sky Ranch on the market, GSCO was approached by DU with an interest to purchase the property and evolve it into a mountain location to complement its urban campus. With nearly 12,000 graduate and undergraduate students, DU wants to provide outdoor opportunities and curriculum to enhance the student experience. The funds from the sale allow Girl Scouts of Colorado to invest in a sustainable future and increase its ability to deliver the Girl Scout Leadership Experience to girls across the state.

In addition, DU appreciates the importance of the outdoors and camp traditions within Girl Scouting and has agreed to enable GSCO and its statewide girl membership to continue to access the property outside of Red Feather Lakes for up to six weeks each summer for at least the next seven years.

Girl Scouts of Colorado’s Board of Directors and DU’s Board of Trustees have agreed to the deal, which transfers ownership of Magic Sky Ranch to DU for $11.25 million. The transfer of land will be complemented by significant partnership opportunities between the two organizations, including:

collaborating on outdoor equity and education curriculum as well as programing related to the advancement of women and girls;
mentorship and leadership opportunities for our girls with DU students;
access to DU’s Denver campus facilities for programing and other opportunities;
the ability to partner with relevant academic programs;
internships, fieldwork, and research opportunities for DU students that Girl Scouts can participate in and learn from.

“We are overjoyed to be entrusting Magic Sky Ranch to an organization that shares our passion for youth development and education,” said Leanna Clark, CEO of Girl Scouts of Colorado. “The fact that our girls can continue to have access to Magic Sky, coupled with the extensive partnership opportunities we are exploring with DU, means we are jointly creating a legacy the benefits of which will be felt by our girls and DU’s students for decades to come.”

The Magic Sky Ranch property was purchased in the 1960s by the Girl Scouts Mile High Council. It was operated as a resident camp from 2007 to 2013, during which time it incurred losses of about $750,000 annually; in recent years, Magic Sky Ranch has been used on average only 68 days out of each year. In 2014, the Girl Scouts of Colorado Board of Directors voted to put the property on the market based on the recommendation of the council’s Outdoor Property Task Force. Since then, Newmark Knight Frank and Deloitte Consulting have both conducted additional property studies for GSCO that corroborate the benefits of a sale of Magic Sky Ranch.

Funds from the proceeds of the sale will be held in a separate Girl Scouts of Colorado financial account. A committee of key stakeholders, including members, volunteers, board, and staff, will have input into how the funds will be reinvested in Girl Scout properties and to support delivery of the Girl Scout Leadership Experience. About $3 million from the sale has been approved for expenditure on deferred maintenance projects at GSCO’s other properties. These projects, which will be determined through a property strategic planning process, will take place over several years and include technology and security upgrades, winterizing to ensure year-round access, and upgrades to accommodations.

GSCO will work closely with the Membership Connection Committee to solicit input from members and volunteers on the potential of adding other amenities to our properties as well as exploring ways in which the sale can enable us to reach and serve more girls across the state.

Revealed: The magicians behind DU’s Magic Sky Ranch Mountain Campus

Last week, the University of Denver (DU) announced it had acquired the Magic Sky Ranch located in Larimer County, Colorado to create another academic campus. While large ranch pur chases aren’t entirely uncommon in the West, for a university to pull off something like this, it caught our attention.

The University’s plan for the new property is to develop a complementary mountain campus to its urban, Denver campus. It’s kind of an amazing point – why not incorporate the benefits of Colorado’s outdoor recreational components and opportunities to provide a more enhanced student experience? The University plans to build a new freshman orientation program derived in part from Colorado Outward Bound , focusing on team building and leadership skills through rock climbing, ropes courses, hiking, and other outdoor activities. DU’s four-dimensional (4D) experience will be central to the curriculum being taught.

The property, which will now be known as the James C. Kennedy Mountain Campus, consists of 724 acres of land and almost 60,000 square feet of buildings. The price tag: a cool $11.25 million.

And while private universities, millions of dollars, hundreds of acres, and big names like James C. Kennedy make great headlines, there’s often something else hidden at work.

Enter the land magicians of Mirr Ranch Group (MRG).

This group specializes in representing sellers and buyers in unique, and oftentimes complicated, land transactions. You may recall seeing them in the news in recent years for their involvement in the sale of some exceptional Colorado ranches, such as Cielo Vista Ranch, home to the only private fourteener in North America; Sandstone Ranch, a landmark deal that sold to Douglas County Open Space; JE Canyon Ranch, an ecologically significant property that sold to The Nature Conservancy; and Caribou Ranch, the now peaceful refuge and historical site of the legendary recording studio.

ColoradoBiz sat down with Daniel Carter, MRG Senior Vice President and recent graduate from DU’s Executive MBA program, who helped broker the massive off-market Magic Sky transaction. Below is a synopsis of what we found most intriguing about the evolution of this story and this real estate deal.

ColoradoBiz: There are a lot of land brokerages in Colorado and the West. Why was MRG selected?

Daniel Carter: When the University began its process to identify a suitable property for the campus, they knew they could count on their alumni. A few years ago, they had contacted MRG’s founder, Ken Mirr, a DU Sturm College of Law graduate (‘86), to help sell a university-owned Wyoming property. MRG’s Wyoming specialist and fellow MRG Senior Vice President, Jared Souza, successfully sold the Laramie-area ranch. Building upon this successful relationship with Mirr, DU worked with MRG to represent the University’s unique real estate needs for this transaction.

CB: So, having some history helped? What did this process entail?

DC: Jared and I, alongside the University, performed advanced due diligence for 20+ properties before presenting the Magic Sky Ranch, an off-market property, as a

solution for the mountain campus.

The Chancellor’s vision will be a major differentiator for the University moving forward. While most academic institutions are continuing to focus on remote and virtual learning environments, DU is doubling down on authentic and tangible connections to the natural environment and innovative outdoor programming. And as alumni, we felt honored to have played a small part in the first step of helping to realize that vision.

CB: Campus purchases aren’t all that common. How did you start?

DC: Most ranches do not lend themselves well to being built out into campuses, so there are limited possibilities to begin with, and in the currently volatile land market, we were up against an even greater challenge to deliver the right scenario. It became apparent throughout the journey that a property with existing infrastructure and commercial design would offer a greater value for DU. Given the conditions of the rural land real estate market across Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West, there was simply nothing publicly for sale that fit the bill. So that led us to pursue off-market properties.

Utilizing MRG’s deep network and market knowledge, we began our “canvas for campus” off-market possibilities and introduced the Magic Sky Ranch. The property was owned by the Girl Scouts of Colorado and had a significant build-out of existing infrastructure to support several hundred individuals that had been used as a summer camp and educational facility.

CB: What other factors were at play?

DC: It certainly didn’t hurt that the University had a $26 million gift as a part of its purchasing power. This allowed a very diverse range of choices and options and fully allowed us to do our work correctly.

It will be a joy to watch as the mountain campus vision continues to unfold. I know it will have a meaningful influence on DU’s future generations.

Elevating the DU Experience

For University of Denver students—past, present and prospective—the Rocky Mountains beckon from sunup to sundown. Tantalizing views of Front Range fourteeners are as much a part of the campus backdrop as copper roofs and stately trees. But access to the mountains hasn’t typically been feasible for every student.

That changed Oct. 5, when Chancellor Jeremy Haefner announced DU’s acquisition of 724 acres of mountain real estate in Colorado’s Larimer County. Bordering the Roosevelt National Forest and perched at 8,000 feet, the pine-dotted spread makes up the new James C. Kennedy Mountain Campus, named, by DU’s Board of Trustees, in honor of a prominent alumnus, dedicated conservationist, former trustee and longtime supporter of the University’s academic enterprise.

The new campus will, Haefner says, distinguish DU as the only U.S. university that integrates an urban and mountain experience for all its students. It also will complement DU’s signature 4D Experience.

“With the establishment of the Kennedy Mountain Campus, the University will be able to fully realize its vision for a transformative four-dimensional student experience—one that emphasizes advancing intellectual growth, exploring character, promoting well-being, and pursuing careers and lives of purpose,” Haefner says. “By the time they graduate, every DU undergraduate and graduate student will have had the opportunity to learn and grow at this remarkable place.”

Harnessing the educational powers of nature

Remarkable just begins to capture it.

The Kennedy Mountain Campus sits roughly two hours northwest of Denver in terrain that encompasses everything from tranquil meadows to craggy rock formations. Pine trees and aspen groves shelter wild turkeys, deer, raptors and the occasional meandering moose. A serene body of water summons to mind Thoreau’s sojourn at Walden Pond.

Formerly known as the Magic Sky Ranch, the new campus was purchased for $11.25 million from the Girl Scouts of Colorado, which, since the 1960s, used the property as a summer camp. The property—with a cafeteria and full kitchen, facilities for outdoor leadership training and a gymnasium complete with climbing wall—encompasses a contiguous 600 acres, as well as a 124-acre parcel enveloped by national forest and accessible only by trail.

Purchase of the campus was made possible by a substantial gift from Kennedy (BSBA ’70). His gift also will fund upgrades to the property’s buildings and infrastructure, as well as the launch of a full complement of programs for students. Going forward, the University expects to fund all additional programming and operation costs through philanthropy at no extra cost to students or their families.

“The partnership and visionary leadership Mr. Kennedy provided are transformational,” says Valerie Otten, senior vice chancellor for University Advancement. “Gifts like this will touch the lives and shape the futures of countless students, both now and long into the future.”

In his two-year hunt for a site hospitable to 4D education, Brandon Buzbee, a senior associate vice chancellor for University Advancement, was looking for someplace where “nature could serve as a medium for education.” In consultation with a subcommittee of DU’s Board of Trustees, as well as Haefner and other senior administrators, Buzbee toured 40 properties, some of them too near happening ski resorts, some of them no more than a sprint from java joints and pizza parlors. Other properties were too small, too inaccessible, too unsuitable for year-round use.

“We were trying to find a little bit of a unicorn,” says Allan Wilson, who, as DU’s director of real estate, helped negotiate the mountain campus purchase. Only Magic Sky Ranch offered just the right contrast to Denver’s hustle and bustle: a combination of harmonious scenery, well-maintained infrastructure, space for a vast range of outdoor and indoor activities, and splendid seclusion.

Emphasis on seclusion. It’s nearly 7 miles from the nearest town, Red Feather Lakes, population 385. And because the property’s immediate neighbor is a national forest, it’s not at risk of encroaching development. Better still, Wilson says, the campus came with better-than-adequate water rights, which are essential for accommodating large numbers of visitors.

Todd Adams, vice chancellor for student affairs, considers the remote location a respite from urban life, one that provides students the chance to take stock of their day-to-day challenges, cultivate perspective on their studies and invest in their well-being.

“We’re in an urban setting—and a fairly vibrant one at that. We’re on a quarter calendar, and we move at that pace. So the opportunity to be on another campus, to give more time for reflection, for experiential kinds of learning, really does complement what we’re doing on [the Denver] campus,” he explains.

Just as important, the mountain campus will align with the scholarly work of DU’s faculty. Mary Clark, provost and executive vice chancellor, expects that vital research in everything from the natural sciences to anthropology will find a home on the campus. (Already, faculty experts in anthropology have begun to examine the site’s history and, in consultation with Indigenous partners, will conduct an archaeological study, all in the interest of ensuring an honest engagement with history.)

Clark and Adams also envision co-curricular opportunities such as Wellness Weekends, where students escape the city to decompress before final exams or to balance intellectual exertion with physical challenges. Also on the drawing board: retreats for graduate students needing a quiet place to write theses and dissertations; immersive classes in plein air painting for visual artists; intensive executive education for business students wanting to hone leadership skills or ponder ethical dilemmas.

Away from urban distractions, Clark says, students can also engage in individual and group activities that promote what she calls “reflection on self and relations to others,” which complements the 4D emphasis on character development. Any such activity—a group challenge perhaps—can be followed by quiet time to assess and evaluate.

Chad King, executive director of sustainability, hopes that time at the campus will cultivate a conservation mindset in students. “It’s been documented that when people have experiences in nature, they often are more connected to it and see more reason to conserve it,” he says, adding that the campus will likely afford opportunities to study such sustainability concepts as carbon sequestration in forests and off-the-grid energy use.

Karlton Creech, vice chancellor for athletics, recreation and Ritchie Center operations, considers the mountain campus a welcome addition to the outdoor recreation programming his division supports. What’s more, varsity and club teams can stage retreats and trainings at the campus, while individual students can sample something new, whether rock climbing or a miles-long hike. “You can choose your level of difficulty, and there’s something there for everybody. I think every student who goes out there can carve out their own experience,” he says.

That’s exactly what Denise O’Leary, chair of DU’s Board of Trustees, wants to see happen. “Our vision is to have this be a unique and transformative experience for every student at DU: to develop a better appreciation for and understanding of the natural world, their fellow classmates and, perhaps more importantly, a better sense
of themselves.”

Students put the new campus to the test

In early October, several undergraduate and graduate students visited the mountain campus to size up its potential.

Anthony Crosby (BS ’21) was among them. Amidst the quaking aspen and long meadow grasses, he spotted the opportunity for the kind of learning that DU champions.

“It means so much for students to be hands-on in an environment that not only allows [them] to grow, but also thrive,” he says. “The endless activities and endless adventures to be had will give all DU students the Colorado experience that they will take with them for the rest of their lives.”

An awestruck Katie O’Connor, meanwhile, found herself energized by the “absolutely beautiful” landscape. A senior studying marketing, she appreciated the chance to join others in activities—some invigorating, some relaxing—conducive to making connections.

“Playing catch with a softball and scaling the ropes course both made me feel a strong sense of community. Sometimes the simplest activities bring the most joy when bonding with peers in a completely new environment. Sitting at the lake, I just took in the beauty and all these ideas came to me. We could canoe, climb, stretch, picnic,
or listen to a speaker while fully connected to nature.”

For Qingyu Zhou, a graduate student in University College’s communication management program, the trip to the campus provided the chance to try something she otherwise might not attempt: rock climbing.

“I was willing to get out of my comfort zone,” she says, “I had no idea how to do rock climbing, but the instructors [were] patient and helpful. I almost gave up when I saw how high the cliff was. However, I was able to convince myself that this is not hard and started slowly going down. The height was scary at first, but it got easier once I found my balance up there. Even though it took me 20 minutes to get down when other people usually take five minutes,
I still made it.”

More students will begin enjoying short opportunities at the mountain campus as early as this fall. Longer stays involving structured programming for every first-year and transfer student will begin next fall, and in time, programming is expected to span the seasons. By 2025, the University anticipates the campus will be in full swing, with an ever-evolving range of options for the entire DU community.

DU’s 19th chancellor can’t wait. “If there is one word that captures what this campus means to this university, it’s transformative,” Haefner says. “The James C. Kennedy Mountain Campus has the potential to touch hearts and minds and to build lifetime bonds.”

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