California Woods 1B Tract

Land Description

The ± 225 acre California Woods 1B tract provides an affordable opportunity to own quality hunting and timberland. Additional contiguous tracts are available for a total offering ± 803 acres (See California Woods 1A, 2A, 2B in addition to 1B). Final Division lines are negotiable. The ± 640 acre California Woods East tract ( 3A & 3B) recently sold in one transaction and is no longer available.

± 144 acres of the property is upland cutover that was harvested in 2022 and 2023, providing a blank slate for you to grow natural hardwood and pine, plant pines, convert flatter areas to fields or food plots, or a combination of land uses. Many landowners can qualify for reforestation cost share programs such as Eqip to cover most or all your reforestation costs.

Complimenting the recent clearcut are several aesthetic creek bottoms with mature hardwoods and clear running creeks, several areas of mature upland pine and hardwood, and a few small stands of loblolly pine planted in 2014. While deer hunting opportunities are of course throughout the property, the mature natural timber provide especially good turkey hunting opportunities. There is a quality network of recently improved woods roads providing good access for both hunting and future logging.

Throughout the tract on higher elevations and peaks are stunning views, especially looking west across the Chattahoochee River valley into Alabama as far as the eye can see. Particularly the views are spectacular from California Woods Rd, the aesthetic food plot at the center of the property, and a peak along the south property line provide spectacular views. The varied topography with mostly rolling terrain and some flat and steep areas has ± 200' in elevation change.

Adding to the allure of California Woods 1B is the grave site of James Templeton, who was born in 1809 and died in 1879. Inscribed on the marker that is in amazingly good condition is “His soul is saved by grace. In heaven he shall rest in his native place”.

Located near Lake Eufaula and Providence Canyon State Park in a very peaceful and secluded rural area of western Stewart County GA, there is no shortage of outdoors enjoyment in the area. Essentials are available close by in Lumpkin GA, Cuthbert GA, Georgetown GA, and Eufaula AL. Nearby Columbus GA offers major retailers, great dining, and more.

Each California Woods tract offers the best in off-grid remote privacy with only a short and peaceful drive of a few miles down California Woods Road to GA Highway 27. California Woods Rd is a public county road and the county road dead ends just past the California Woods tract. With only a few large landowners along the road, traffic is almost none, and privacy and tranquility are maximized. The county road is a public road but is not county maintained. The road is privately maintained as needed by the few private landowners along the road, at their own expense and discretion. Most of California Woods Rd is sand based that handles rain well, while there are some stretches with heavier clay content that get slick in rain but do dry out quickly.

Some locals say the area is known as California Woods because the unique rolling topography is reminiscent of certain areas of hill country in California, and some say it is because the area is so remote and undeveloped. The area is unique from a habitat and ecosystem and topography perspective, making the California Woods offering ideal for a permanent conservation easement (Ce). If the next owner places the property in a CE, there would be a tax benefit for the owner while allowing the owner to do the things most would want to do such as hunting, growing and harvesting timber, building an off-grid cabin or house and outbuildings for personal use, building lake or two, hobby farm, etc. The more restrictive the CE, the more tax benefits there would be.

± 16.5 acres of 2014 Planted Loblolly Pine

± 60.8 acres of Mature Oak & Mixed Hardwoods

± 144.4 acres of 2022 & 2023 Natural Upland Regen

± 1.51 acres of Open Land

± 1.71 acres of California Woods Road Right of Way

± 4,072' of frontage on California Woods Rd (county road, dirt, not county maintained (maintained by the few landowners on the road as needed)

± 8,023' of recently improved woods roads

± 7,195' of creeks

± 3,957' of drains

± 200' in elevation change

± 12 miles to Lumpkin GA, 21 miles to Eufaula AL, 48 miles to Columbus GA, 152 miles to Atlanta GA, and 363 miles to Orlando FL.