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ONE OF A KIND
Photo by: Fernando Castillo
Ron Hatfield
A native of Houston, Texas, Ron Hatfield comes Steamboat Springs, Colorado, a house he had for
over 20 years and only sold when he started Del Mar
from a small and traditional family. He and his sister Development.
grew up during what he describes as “the best years in Six years ago, Ron bought Northern Colorado’s’
the history of the United States; the end of the 40’s and Historic Rawah Ranch, a guest ranch named for the
the beginning of the 50’s.” His father was an executive rugged and majestic snow-capped mountains that rise
in a large company while his mother stayed at home to above and the untouched wilderness that surrounds it.
care for the family. The ranch occupies 250 wilderness-surrounded acres it
He fondly remembers spending childhood vacations and features two and a half miles of the Laramie River,
in Colorado where he bought his first property in a beautiful lodge, and private fly-fishing, horses and
great food for up to thirty guests.
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