Our Mountain Property

Our home & acreage is a beautiful work in progress, 5 minutes from downtown Nelson. We live on Morning Mountain, and look across the lake to Baldface.

We bought the property 12 years ago from a woman in her 90's who had spent her entire life here. According to our neighbours the house and property back in the day was incredible and since her husband died 30 years ago...the mountain/mother nature had slowly started to take the land back.

Since we moved in, we've done major renos on the house. In fact, we called it our "gutter-upper" for many years. We've done almost everything ourselves and built a suite and a tiny home on the property too.

The 6 acres of land we are just finally getting to now.

We are situated on a north-facing mountain property with 1 acre of established perennial gardens, old rock walls and many fruit trees. We have about half an acre of open Douglas Maple forest, followed by 4.5 acres of large Fir, Cedar, Hemlock & the occasional Yew backing onto crown land. We have a few short established trails in the back and a creek that runs 10 months out of the year.

A century ago, the land was used for orchards and animals. We have two transparent apple trees from that era. We also have two other apples (unsure of type), Royal Anne cherry, Bing cherries, crab apple, hazelnuts, elderberry, saskatoon berries, raspberries, blueberries, thimbleberries and pear, peach & plum trees that aren't yet producing fruit.

As for your experience, well, to start off - we're a 5 minute drive to Baker St. in Nelson...or a 20 minute walk. You're super close to coffee shops, restaurants & shops. We have lots of mountain biking and hiking within 20 minutes and tons more if you venture out further. And there are lots of sandy beaches to choose from for lazy afternoons.