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Model Colorado Horse Arenas Right for Your Family

When it comes to designing Colorado horse arenas that work for your activities, location, and budget, the classic pole barn fits. Lester Buildings partners with Sapphire Construction, Inc. in Castle Rock to provide your family a seamless building process.  Dream big and let’s get ingenious.  A few custom modifications and you’ll be tipping your hat ‘til the horses come home.
Site Selection

Our professionals can help choose the right piece of real estate or the best building site on existing properties.  An aerial view of the building site plan will incorporate necessary programming, including setbacks and excavation.  Setbacks are required by the county, city, and subdivisions.  It is space between buildings, property lines, easements, right of ways, and from animals to the neighbors’ house.  Excavation plans include drainage fields, septic, sewer, water, electricity, and any other underground systems.

Equestrian Activities

In Colorado, many equestrians prefer indoor facilities. Our designers and engineers have constructed numerous model barns and arenas for neighboring enthusiasts.  Let us show you options for customizing spaces to accommodate your goals.  How many horses will you accommodate? What purposes do you have in mind? Do you have a couple of young 4-H students? Are you in the competitive rodeo circuit? Are you training dancing horses?

Commonly requested rooms include:

• Riding arena
• Official size arena
• Padlocks and stalls
• Office
• Kitchen and restroom
• Tack room, heated?
• Meeting/social room
• Wash rack room
• Storage
• Loft spaces

Location Variables

In between the moderate and temperate climes, we know Central Colorado can be hot, cold, wet, and windy.  Our Colorado horse arenas are purposefully placed to accommodate passive or natural elements such as sunshine and prevailing winds. Buildings are engineered specifically to withstand snow and wind loads. But there are also design elements inherent in the pole barn to facilitate proper ventilation and air quality for animals and people.

We sit with clients to build a schematic.  Where should the pasture be?  How about the outdoor arenas, paddocks, barn, and fencing?  This model becomes subject to the budget.

Budget

After determining your arena budget, relax.  Technical experts and software geniuses put together some great tools to help our clients and our salespeople.  Clients tell us what they want and we plug the design in to the software program.  Everything is broken down to a cost estimate. Make a few changes and run it again to get updated costs. This is a great way to stretch each dollar and prioritize where it goes.

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Please contact Sapphire Construction, Inc. at (303) 619-7213 for information about Colorado horse arenas in the Central Colorado region, especially Douglas County, El Paso County, Jefferson County, and Elbert County.