Listings by Angela M. Acosta

With over 65 usable grass and oak-studded acres, this old-world-inspired home and horse ranch is definitely the cure. Leave town behind and join us up where you belong, in the mountains of Warner Springs. Travel down your private pine tree-lined driveway to a fenced and gated five-and-a-half-acre spread. Your home has two bedrooms and two full bathrooms, the perfect kitchen design according to experts, a warm, livable living area, and an attached 4-car garage (currently used as a massive fun and guest room but easily converted back to garage space if so desired). We love the antique plaster look and nostalgic details of the home's exterior, down to hand-selected art pieces and Spanish tiles edging the very practical metal roof. A few steps away, just beyond some magnificent boulder formations, are the storage and tack sheds, a 4-stall horse barn, a round pen/arena, and a pasture with a run-in shelter. Beyond the fenced homestead lies the rest of the acreage, which has been carefully maintained to showcase this area's most spectacular natural beauty and vistas. There are miles of trails for riding and hiking within your land, up along a rocky ridge, down through meadows, and past a private pond - a favorite respite for local critters. Your ranch features two currently active water wells and two additional ones not in use at this time. You'll find the well water here to be one of our most treasured and precious resources! It's delicious and unspoiled. There are over 20,000 gallons of water storage up on the ridge overlooking the ranch, so even in times of no power, you and yours can remain healthy and hydrated. And if 65 acres isn't enough, the ranch backs up to thousands of acres of public lands. You can also ride directly from your home without trailering and almost instantly be on the California Riding and Hiking or Pacific Crest Trails, which run from Mexico to Canada directly through this community, not to mention the Dr. Bronner's AOGF open space preserve, Chihuahua Horse Camp, and more.

Wildlife and nature lovers' paradise on over 85 acres, San Diego County, Warner Springs. Your home is a small, cozy little footprint with absolutely ENORMOUS outdoor living space, each detail lovingly carved and curated to work harmoniously with the setting. Gorgeous kitchen. Stone hearth. Eating and living areas. Warm and restorative bedroom. Spa on the deck for evening soaks under the tremendous canopy of our unpolluted dark skies. Fenced for your four-legged fur friends. In fact, several areas are set up for your domestic companions, as well as space for livestock and horses. Your overnight guests can choose between 3 tiny off-grid cabins, fully fenced and gated, replete with lounge areas, hammocks, reading nooks, etc. It's the perfect way to truly unplug. Guests may also choose from a few additional overnight experiences where disconnecting from power and Wi-Fi isn't in the cards, but they can still feel submersed in this one-of-a-kind environment. The entire property is supported by two excellent water wells, waterlines throughout the acreage, on-grid underground power, a robust 40-kilowatt solar array, and a 22-kilowatt backup generator for backup power, and is on septic. The certified forest therapy trails make a happy path throughout the property, 3.5 miles onsite total, winding over meadows of sage and native grasses, through thickets and under the canopy of over 200 scattered oaks, and then high up top past ancient manzanitas to one of the most incredible vistas for miles around. There is even a yurt - can you imagine hosting get-togethers, seminars, or classes here? Mindful rest, self-care, and community, all in one. The Pacific Crest and California Riding & Hiking Trails are nearby, and the property backs up to the Bureau of Land Management Open Space. You can hike or ride horses for DAYS, glamping and staging your excursions from right on site.

SELLER MAY FINANCE WITH ABOUT 30% NET TO THEM AT CLOSE OF ESCROW. Welcome to the wild and wonderful Fairoaks Ranch of 160 acres - and all of its western goodness - in San Diego County, Warner Springs. Located directly on the Cooper Cienega Truck Trail, Mitchell Camp Road, and the California Riding and Hiking Trail, this is the perfect placement for enjoying the best of the backcountry, be it for horse rescue or sanctuary, livestock raising, crop farming, or just relaxing with your favorite critters and maybe a few of only your very favorite friends and family. This is a rare opportunity in an area where the average parcel size is about 5 acres, and the improvements here are both thoughtful and abundant. It is fenced, crossfenced, with an electric entrance gate and side gates, one of which leads you directly into the next-door BLM open space, and here you are only steps away from the Dr. Bronners AOGF Open Space as well. The permitted water well boasts 30 gallons per minute, 10,000 gallons of water storage, and is plumbed throughout the ranch - there are standpipes EVERYWHERE. Acreage has also already been improved to include a fabulous chicken palace, horse turnout pasture, tack room outbuilding and deck, additional storage sheds/ hay barn, greenhouse, a workshop with a bathroom and shower, a racetrack, and more. Built above and around 4 full-sized sea train containers is one of the most charming barns you've ever seen. The downstairs is outfitted with HUGE storage and recreation spaces, a utility bathroom, and an outdoor covered BBQ and gathering space. Upstairs is a 2-bedroom, 2-bath apartment with a darling kitchen, living area, and stone fireplace. A short walk away is a small park, under the shade of ancient oaks, replete with the obligatory tire swing and even a tree house. Pathway through the park leads you to an outdoor cowboy kitchen, a small gazebo for evening sips from frosty cans of the champagne of beers, and surrounded by huge, fluffy rows of lilacs is a really excellent country home of 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. This acreage and all its amazing improvements is the perfect start to making the ranch of your dreams. Utilize the clever lodging available now while you comfortably customize to your wants and needs. The Fairoaks Ranch is waiting!

The most special place !!! This hacienda-style adobe pool home with detached guest quarters/ADU is situated just perfectly right on a lovely 15-acre spread. This is Old Mine Road, in an incredibly scenic and historic portion of Ranchita, with westward views and more cover from the elements that can be a little more wild, further east toward Borrego Springs, on the wide-open portions of town. Gorgeous plaster, saltillo tiles, murals, and mosaics speak to the heyday of this excellent ranch, once an Angeleno museum owner's and artists' retreat in the 1930s and 1940s. There is a small "servant's" quarters off the kitchen, and a very practical root and wine cellar beneath that wing of the home. There are multiple outbuildings for storage, workshop, a small adobe stable for horses or burros or goats and sheep, and another outbuilding was converted to be more habitable, possibly for guests or moody teenagers, or maybe it has a future as an upscale "catio" or chicken palace! More recent stewards of the ranch have updated countless necessities as well as creature comforts, including the addition of a small orchard and garden, a vineyard, and of course, the resort-like pool and sun deck with pizza oven, hearth, and outdoor kitchen. A winding path will take you to the upper elevation of the acreage where you can look out over the beginnings of a lavender farm, perfect for this elevation and climate, and other plantable areas. You can also still spy the remnants of yet more art installations from bygone days, as well as the views over miles of open space, distant night sky observatories, and some of the most gorgeous sunsets you will ever see. This has been a very popular airbnb the last 9 years with excellent ratings, and always in high demand. Offered fully furnished for you to continue as an income property, or keep this as your own private hideaway.

The upper ranch consists of appx 1010.79 acres, a beautifully restored Olde Californian ranch home from 1935, a barn, spring-fed pond, guest cottage, detached office/library building with a small apartment, a private rental home with its own access, and an absolutely delightful art/architecture piece: the Tree House! The upper property is replete with natural creeks and streams along riding & hiking trails, and features a backup generator and solar system, and two water wells, water storage. The lower ranch is comprised of 95 acres total, and it features a well-maintained, light and bright 1930s cottage, a garage with a guest or caretaker's apartment, a large horse arena, an additional, separate/private rental home, and a fabulous converted barn building. Used as a site for gatherings large and small, this incredible retreat features a central kitchen, large pantry, an industrial kitchen, rooms for overnight guests, a large stone hearth, cozy loft, en suite baths as well as one indoor and two "public" WC amenities outdoors - because visitors almost always want to take in the vistas, romp around in the park, lounge in the shade, and otherwise enjoy the nature outside. There is even RV/camping space designated at the arena. And as if these improvements don't already inspire so much awe and wonder, the lower ranch also features an authentic, permanent ceremonial sweat lodge, large enough to accommodate about 15 people. This guest retreat area and the private rental each have their own water wells. Rancho San Felipe is one of the most peaceful and enchanting locations, anywhere. Here you are secluded, but not isolated, as there are several private and major airports and transportation within an easy, scenic drive. Much of the more mountainous acreage is part of a conservation easement, while the maximum utility is reserved for the most accessible and usable acreage. Here is a place to gather, to learn, to create, to heal, and allow oneself to connect to something scarcely found elsewhere.