Overview
- The entire Belden compound is on the market for $4.75 million, with an adjacent five‑acre parcel offered separately for $500,000.
- The property includes an owner’s apartment, seven guest cabins, an 18‑room lodge with restaurant and bar, about 16 RV spaces, a mechanic’s garage, a shuttered schoolhouse, and multiple outdoor event areas.
- Owner Ivan Coffman, who has run and lived at Belden since buying it in 1989, says he still pans for gold daily and cited his age and the death of his son earlier this year as reasons for selling.
- Buyers are being pitched a range of uses — boutique resort, festival or music venue, retreat center, glamping site, or corporate getaway — though the site’s remote, unincorporated location and the wildfire threat highlighted by the 2021 Dixie Fire are major factors for any new owner to consider.
- Belden began as a Gold Rush camp and later served hikers and travelers on the Pacific Crest Trail; the sale hands a culturally distinct, self‑contained community to whoever will decide whether to preserve its hospitality role or redevelop the site.