Fountain Valley Colorado
Homes for sale in Fountain Valley offer many advantages, most especially for military families. Home to 80,000, this prime real estate sits at Fort Carson’s outside back gate 20. Colorado Springs Airport and Fort Peterson are on the northeast edge of the valley.
About 5-10 miles south of Colorado Springs, the valley sits at 5800-foot elevations, spanning over 50 square miles east of Interstate 25. Highway 87 and South Powers Boulevard pass north-south through Fountain Valley and, via Mesa Ridge Parkway, meets I-25 yonder on the southside of The Springs.
Real Estate in Fountain Valley
The communities of Security, Widefield, and Fountain are in Fountain Valley. Here buyers find older bungalows and new homes—usually on larger lots for reasonable prices per square foot than can be found in in the Colorado Springs city limits. The average lot size for Fountain CO real estate is 0.29 acres. The median list price is around $300,000.
Security offers older affordable homes and much of the valley’s commercial activity. Most of the new homes are being built in Fountain where open land invited some larger and newer subdivisions. Think Cumberland Green, Ventana, and El Dorado Springs for spacious homes with upgraded features priced $275,000 to $350,000.