*Offered without a published price. The sellers are accepting offers and will evaluate on price, terms, and ability to close.*

Most large land offerings in Pennsylvania are one thing. Timber. Recreation. Farm ground. Development ground. This one is several things at once, and that is the entire point.

Mountain Ridge Trails Resort is a contiguous mountain assemblage in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, in the heart of the Laurel Highlands, made up of thirty-one separate parcels held under a single ownership. It carries an operating off-road recreation business, a long-term wind energy lease, and oil, gas and mineral interests. It also sits on some of the best big woods hunting ground in the western half of this state.

There is a difference between land where you could build a trail system and land where the trail system already exists, already has a name, and already produces revenue. This is the second kind. The trails are cut, marked, and maintained. Staging, gate control, signage, and safety infrastructure are in place. Assembling a contiguous block of this size in Pennsylvania is close to impossible today. Getting a trail system operating on it is a separate multi-year project. Building a rider following is a third. Somebody already paid that price. The next owner does not have to.

The growth case is the largest value driver here. This property is under monetized relative to its footprint, which is what happens when a family-scale operation sits on an institutional-scale asset. Lodging, a rental fleet, memberships, organized events, four-season use in one of the more reliable snow belts in the state, service and retail, hunting leases, and managed timber are all supported by ground and infrastructure that already exist. Somerset County is also building a countywide ATV trail plan, and county officials and ownership have been in contact about this property serving as a connection point within it.

The energy position separates this from every other large recreational tract in Pennsylvania. A portion of the ridge is under a wind lease, and the owned the oil, gas and mineral interests convey rather than being carved out at closing. That produces contractual income and establishes that this ridge carries real energy infrastructure value. It also opens a conversation most land never gets to have. The constraint on data center development in this country is power and land. Pennsylvania sits inside PJM, and site selection teams screen weekly for exactly what this is. A large contiguous block, one seller, one closing, existing energy infrastructure, ridge top elevation and cool ambient temperatures, proven heavy construction access, frontage, and a rural jurisdiction that works with the energy industry. This is not an entitled, powered, shovel-ready site and no one should buy it as one. It is a site that scores unusually well on the criteria that matter.

Then there is what happens here when the machines are parked. Mature hardwood and mixed cover on mountain terrain with elevation change, natural funnels, benches, and thick bedding cover, in a county that consistently produces some of the better bucks, black bear, with strong turkey, grouse, and small game throughout. What separates it from the rest of the state is not habitat. It is control. One ownership and gated access means the property is the management unit, and the buyer controls the herd, the pressure, and the harvest. Almost nobody in Pennsylvania has that.

Marketing gets attention. Strategy gets offers. This is not a property that sells because it is listed. It sells because a buyer understands what took decades to assemble here and what it would cost to replicate. Thirty-one parcels, one ridge, one ownership, one signature.

A confidential property, parcel and asset schedule, financial statements, executed leases, permits, and title work are available to qualified buyers upon execution of a confidentiality agreement.

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