Liz Wilson poses on the ridge near her home in Morrison, Colorado on May 24, 2024. Wilson, a descendant of the Bax family, used to live in the home pictured in the background, across the road. Descendants of the Bax family, long-time neighbors to the Coors and pioneers in the Morrison area, are planning to list their home on Lyons Rock Ridge in early June. near Morrison’s Willowbrook neighborhood will test how much Colorado buyers are willing to pay up to be able to look down.
The view from the Wilson home, overlooking the Denver skyline, in Morrison, Colorado on May 24, 2024. Wilson’s grandfather, Drew Bax, was a gentleman rancher and avid art collector fascinated with the Old West who donated or gifted about 600 pieces to the Denver Art Museum. Wilson and her husband, both airline pilots, scraped enough together to buy 23 acres from the estate on the ranch’s high point. They waited another 10 years, until 2005, to build their dream home in the “parkitecture style.”“Everything in this home is custom, from the old barn wood 3/4″ pine hand-hewn flooring , and trestle beams from a bridge near the Great Salt Lake.
The acreage has large trees with a zip line and a spring-fed pond with large carp, bass and blue gill fish for the next owner. Deer, elk and even bobcats are regular visitors to the property.The Bergen Ditch, an irrigation canal that runs through the property, wouldn’t be worth mentioning except that it feeds Rabbit Falls, a waterfall along the road leading up to the home that looks very similar to the logo on older versions of the Coors Banquet cans.