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Chunn's Cove

Soon after you come out of the tunnel, heading east on Tunnel Road, you'll go left onto Chunn's Cove Road at a traffic light, just after the Innsbruck Mall. This probably isn't even even five minutes from downtown. You'll soon be headed up a country road, passing cattle in a pasture on your left. There are apartments on the right and not a lot of homes as you go along. You will notice new construction in a subdivision off to the right.

If you're like me you may wonder about the term cove. I only knew of it to mean and inlet or bay in a body of water. But there are coves in the mountains, too. It just means a sheltered nook or recess in the hillside. It can be a valley. Chunn's Cove goes up from Tunnel Road into the hills.

This is not one neighborhood. There are scattered older homes, new subdivisions of homes and scattered individual newer homes. Some of the homes that sold from March 2006 to March 2007 were ranch houses, between $200,000 and $300,000, built in the 1960's. They were on between a third acre and a bit over one acre. They measured between 1500 and 2500 square feet and had 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.

At the higher end, by altitude and price, there were custom-built newer homes on the hillsides, with beautiful views, on over 1.5 acres that sold for over $680,000. They measured 3,000 to 4,300 square feet and had up to 6 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms.

I recently visited a new neighborhood here called The Wildes of Chunn's Cove. Unfortunately it looks like the developers bulldozed everything flat to be able to make a nice neat circle of homes, so the landscaping is all newly planted. But the homes are very nice and include some duplexes. The yards are very small - low maintenance. The best thing of all is that this seems to have a close neighborhood feel. The people who live here actually know each other, get together regularly for celebrations, and they help each other when there's a need. It's surrounded by mountain views and is just about 3-5 minutes from downtown.