Most people think you have to drive three hours out of Pittsburgh to find real country. This place is thirty five minutes from the city and it feels like a different world.

179 Clydes Road is 100.27± acres in one contiguous block in Hanover Township, the far northwest corner of Washington County, where the farms are still farms and the traffic stops at dark. A home comes with it, so this is not a bare land project. You can close, move in, and start working the ground the same season.

The land is the story. Wide open fields roll across this property, the kind of ground that is ready-made for food plots without clearing a single tree. Clover, brassicas, beans, standing corn, whatever your program calls for, the fields are already sitting there waiting on you. Plant them and you decide where the deer feed across a hundred acres of cover, edge and travel. The wooded draws hold bedding and give the deer a reason to stay home instead of wandering onto the neighbor.

There is trout water here, which is a rare thing on a Washington County farm, and it changes what this place is worth to the right family. There is room to ride, whether that means your own horses on your own ground or trailering a few miles up to Hillman State Park, where the Commonwealth keeps 3,697 acres open to horseback riding, mountain biking and public hunting under Pennsylvania Game Commission management.

Location is the quiet advantage. Pittsburgh International Airport is a short run east. Burgettstown is about nine miles off. Cross Creek County Park and its 244± acre lake, one of the better bass and panfish waters in western Pennsylvania, sits to the south. Raccoon Creek State Park and its 7,572± acres are just north in Beaver County. The Pavilion at Star Lake is in the same township. Burgettstown Area School District serves the property.

The tract is enrolled in Clean and Green under Act 319, which is why the tax bill runs $2,963/year on a hundred acres and a house. That is a carrying cost almost any buyer can live with, and it is the difference between owning a farm and paying rent on one.

Farms this size, this close to Pittsburgh, with a home already standing and the fields already open, do not come around often in this county. Call me, and I will walk it with you.