Website
The ONLY official HLR POA websites:
.com site https://www.hlrpoa.com/
Membership site https://www.hlrpoa.org/
Buildings & Homesteads
The POA for your dreams to come true
At HLR, after obtaining the Cochise County Owner Builder Optout Permit, many go on to build homes and other structures using “alternative” methods. The HLR POA currently has two Earthships one started and one planned, two compacted earth-bag homes that are planned, one rammed earth house already built, a barndominium, a couple planned Elon Musk Boxabl tiny houses, one shed-to-cabin started, and a planned container home. Yea! You see, this is the place for your dream alternative home.
Whether it is Adobe and Pueblo houses, stucco, or earthships, small or large homes, you will find them all here!
If you want a “strict HOA” this is not the place. If you want to enjoy desert living in peace, leave others alone, and be left alone, then you will be among friends here! If you are a “Karen”, the majority of Owners will spot that in you and frankly you will not be welcomed here. Owners have been burnt in the past by that type of a personality and are over it!
Homesteading
Many owners are engaged in a variety of the following: Homesteading, animal husbandry, gardening, and Permaculture practices. You will find Cattle roaming the roads (a rural Arizona norm), horses, goat pens, chickens, ducks, rabbits, gardening, green houses, water recycling, composting, rain collection, water wells, lots of solar power and the off-grid lifestyle. Grid power is also available at some lots.
My POA has had lax enforcement, no enforcement, and many waivers issued over the last 10 years. This makes High Lonesome Ranch POA a unique oasis in the Chiricahua Desert.
It is truly an oasis here, we get an average of 11 inches of rain a year. 2021 and 2022 had very active monsoons and we collected thousands of gallons of rain water!
Here is a not so little secret, most of this ranch happens to have excellent ground water, that is not too deep, something that is priceless for your homesteading dreams, and a treasure in the desert!
Truly, this Ranch is a well-hidden secret of Cochise County! Hurry and get your acreage here! I am on a mission of spreading these secrets, so get your land before others do.
Reputation
Good or bad?
If you heard negative stories about HLR, these are, sadly, true. However, you must know those that caused problems and the “Karens” are on their way out, getting older, and slowly accepting the changing times.
There exists a free website hosted on weebly . com which is run by an owner, it has inaccurate and misleading information. It is an artifact of the past. If you come across that, ignore it. Your only reliable source for information should be the 2 official websites.
This POA has a history of non-enforcement and many waivers. If you want a strict HOA look somewhere else. If you want to enjoy desert living in culturally, socioeconomically, and architecturally “diverse” community of homesteaders you will be among friends here!
We have a group comprised of at least half the owners called Owners for Change working to improve the reputation of this Ranch and keep the old corruption at bay.
In some areas, you find DSL internet, electricity, line of sight internet, and StarLink. Some lots are off-grid, others are on-grid.
Mos the time, our roads are in a very good condition compared to other dirt roads. Gleason road is your way in and out of the Ranch. It is a beautiful paved winding road overlooking mountains, hills, grasslands and absolutely stunning views!
A Unique Location!
Tombstone and the Chiricahua Desert
High Lonesome Ranch (HLR POA) is located in a unique spot! We are at the southern foothills of the Dragoon mountains! We are just south of a ghost town, half an hour drive from the historic town of Tombstone!
The HLR POA is located within the Chiricahua desert. You will feel as if you are living in a national park! Here, you find a diverse plant and animal life, at an average of 4,500 ft in elevation. These species share the HLR POA with us: javelina, coyotes, coues deer, mountain lions, kit fox, lizards, horned toads, rabbits, jackrabbits, rattlesnakes, scorpions, Sonoran desert toads, roadrunners, quail, owls, bats, eagles, vultures, humming birds, lots of birds, ocotillo, prickly pear cactus, yucca, mesquite, grasses, wild purslane, etc.