500+ Ft Stocked Trout Creek, 1.73 Acres - Ashe Co, NC

Owner Financing: - $37,997.50 down (includes a $2,000 earnest money deposit), $0 doc fee - $37,997.50 down, $845.23/mo for 60 months (plus prorated taxes and note maintenance fee) You have been looking for a creek. Not a mention of water in a listing description, not a low spot that floods once a year and gets photographed at the right angle. An actual creek, with current, with rock, with trout in it. On Three Top Road in Ashe County, North Carolina, that is what you will find on this 1.73-acre parcel: more than 500 feet of Three Top Creek, actively stocked with trout, running the length of the property. Then there's the road. This property carries its own frontage on Three Top Road, a paved, state-maintained road, not a shared easement or a gravel cut-through that depends on a neighbor's goodwill. That kind of frontage is part of what makes a rural parcel genuinely valuable rather than merely available. You are not buying access. You already have it. And then there's the barn. Weathered, silver-gray with age, standing open-sided in a mowed pasture with a wooded hillside rising behind it, the kind of structure people picture when they imagine real mountain land, long before they ever actually see one in person. The roofline has settled the way barns do after decades of holding themselves up, and a few of the door panels lean rather than sit flush. It's also still standing, still sound enough to shelter equipment or gear out of the weather. For the right buyer, a barn with this much history is part of what makes a property feel earned rather than manufactured, not something to work around. There's also a garage-type structure on the parcel, offering a second layer of covered space if you need it. Creek frontage, road frontage, and a barn with real history, on a single 1.73-acre parcel. That combination is what makes this property worth a closer look, and it's worth taking each piece seriously rather than skimming past it. Start with the water, because it's the reason buyers will remember this listing. Three Top Creek isn't a quiet trickle. It breaks over stone the entire way through, the kind of moving, oxygenated water that holds fish rather than just passing through, and this stretch is actively stocked with trout. If you've spent time on North Carolina's mountain streams, you already know what that designation means and why it outweighs almost anything else on a listing sheet. Owning a stocked stretch is a different proposition than owning land that happens to be near one. You're not driving to a public access point and competing for a spot with everyone else who read the same stocking schedule. The water is on your own property, running past your own bank, and it's yours to fish whenever you decide to walk down and do it. For someone who has spent years working public water and waiting on the state's calendar, that shift, from access to ownership, is the entire point. Stand at that bank in late winter, the way it looks right now, and you'll see exactly what we mean. Bare hardwoods and a stand of rhododendron holding onto its green through the cold months. Stone worn smooth on one side of the bank, loose river rock on the other. The water breaking white where it runs shallow over the rock bed, then settling into deeper, darker pools where it slows. That's not a description built for a listing. That's what is actually there, and it's the same water whether you're standing on it in January or July. The kind of person who's spent real time on trout water knows to look past the word "creek" and check what's actually holding the fish. Here, that means riffles breaking over exposed rock feeding into slower, deeper pools, and a bed that's rock and stone rather than silt. Those are the details that separate water worth owning from water that's just there for scenery, and this stretch has them. And unlike a lot of creek frontage in this part of the state, you don't have to fight a hillside to reach it. The ground here is flat, so getting from the barn down to the bank is a short, easy walk, not a scramble down a grade. Most of the property is open, mowed pasture, the kind of ground you can walk end to end without watching your footing, with a wooded hillside framing it on one side and the creek running along the other. That combination, real water and land you can actually move around on, is what separates this parcel from most of what gets listed as "creek adjacent" in Ashe County. There's also something to be said for how this property holds up across the year rather than being a fair-weather kind of place. The creek keeps running through the winter, the same as it does in July. The flat, open ground doesn't turn into a liability when the weather shifts. Paved frontage means access is never a seasonal question. A property this consistent, in every month of the year, is rarer than the listing photos alone can show. This corner of Ashe County sits inside one of the more desirable pockets of western North Carolina, and for good reason. The New River lies to the north, placing this parcel within easy reach of one of the state's most storied river systems rather than off on its own somewhere. Boone is roughly 20 miles out, close enough for anything you need without feeling like you're commuting to get it. Elk Knob State Park and New River State Park are both nearby if you want to widen your range beyond your own property line, and the Blue Ridge Parkway is within easy reach if a scenic drive is ever on the agenda. None of that changes what this parcel already is on its own. It simply means the water and land you'd be buying sit inside a region built around exactly the kind of outdoor life that likely brought you to this listing in the first place. If you already own land, or have owned it before, you know that the properties worth paying attention to are rarely the ones with the most acreage. They're the ones with something real and irreplaceable already in place: water that runs year-round, frontage that isn't shared, structures with actual history rather than a rendering of what might someday exist. This parcel has all three, and that combination does not come up often in Ashe County. When it does, it tends to move quickly, because the buyers who understand what they're looking at recognize it immediately. That's the calculation worth making here. Not acreage against price, but rarity against price. A larger, dry parcel with no real water and no existing structures can always be found again next month. A 1.73-acre tract with 500-plus feet of stocked creek frontage, its own paved road frontage, and a barn with real character standing on it, cannot. Once a property like this sells, the next one isn't simply waiting in the wings. There is a difference worth naming between land that advertises water and land that actually has it. A lot of listings in this region mention a stream almost in passing, a small feature buried somewhere in a paragraph about acreage and zoning, often describing something closer to a drainage ditch than a real creek. That's not what's happening here. Buyers who know creek frontage when they see it don't need convincing. They just need the right listing to find. The property is offered at $75,995 cash. Owner financing is also available for buyers who prefer that route, with a $2,000 down payment to get started, a total down payment of $37,997.50, and monthly payments of $845.23 over 60 months, and there is no doc fee attached to this listing. We'd rather talk with you about the property than have you make a decision off a listing page alone. If you've been searching for creek frontage like this, you already know the questions worth asking, and we would rather answer them directly than have you guess. Call our team today and let's talk about what ownership of this stretch of Three Top Creek would look like for you. You'll speak with someone who knows this property firsthand, who can talk through the water, the frontage, the barn, and everything in between, without a script and without pressure. This is how we do it. State: NC County: Ashe Zip: 28694 Size: 1.73 acres Apn: 03088014 #1 Legal Description: Being a 1.73 acre parcel of land; being all of Grantor's property located east of NCSR 1100 (Three Top Road), being bounded on the west by NCSR 1100, and North by Three Top Holiness Church, and on the South and east by Eller and Woodard, as shown and depicted in the plat prepared by Jason T. Herman entitled 'Survey For Michael Karr and wife, Ruth Karr' recorded in Plat Book 10, Page 310, Ashe County Registry. Tract I, 1.729 Acres, as shown on Record Map for Christopher Palsgrove, Book 2012, Page 0151, Ashe County Register of Deeds. Lat/Long Coordinates: Nw: 36.375583, -81.613667 Ne: 36.375583, -81.612389 Sw: 36.375583, -81.612389 Se: 36.3732, -81.6137 Elevation: 2900 ft feet Annual Taxes: Approx. $$343.38 per year Zoning: Residential Property, Recreational Property, Hunting Land Flood Zone: No HOA/POA: No Improvements: No improvements done. Access: Paved Road Water: Will need to install a Well Sewer: Will need to install a Septic System Utilities: Electric Owner Financing: - $37,997.50 down (includes a $2,000 earnest money deposit), $0 doc fee - $37,997.50 down, $845.23/mo for 60 months (plus prorated taxes and note maintenance fee) We do not offer owner financing for residential use or full-time living on the property during the financing term.