A 6,715-square-foot mountain-modern ranch tucked into the pines outside Franktown swung open its doors today as one of the marquee stops on the 2026 Denver Parade of Homes, carrying a $2.695 million price tag across five bedrooms and six bathrooms on a two-acre lot about a mile from town. The custom residence, at 1555 Arrowpoint Court, is part of an annual home-touring event that runs through August 23.
Timber Beams, a Hidden Bonus Room, and an 'Impulse Buy'
According to the Denver Gazette, the walkout ranch was built by Parker-based Northstar Custom Homes, led by builder Steven Gage — who also has commercial construction experience — alongside designer Megan Gage. The plan includes a side-load three-car garage, a large study, a great room framed with prominent timber beams, and a ribbon-flame fireplace trimmed in light stone. A courtyard sits just off the entry, and a large deck out back offers views of the Front Range.
The home also hides a steel-framed bonus room excavated beneath the garage — a feature builder Steven Gage says other buyers have turned into everything from a man cave to a custom music studio. The Arrowpoint Court residence sits within the gated Arrowpoint Estates subdivision and comes with deeded water rights and low homeowners association fees, according to a social media post from Gage.
Inside, the primary suite opens to a bathroom with separate vanities, and light-toned wood floors run through a design Megan Gage — who handles interior design for Northstar Custom Homes — calls warm and current, down to a gray bathtub she picked out herself. Megan Gage told the Denver Gazette that buying the site felt personal, saying, "It was an impulse buy for me," after she and Steven Gage briefly imagined the lot as the site of their own Franktown home.
Franktown's Luxury Prices Meet New Wildfire Rules
The listing sits in a corner of Douglas County where luxury pricing runs well above the norm. Franktown's ZIP code carried a median single-family listing price of $1.71 million in mid-2026, compared with a $775,000 median across all of Douglas County, according to Realtor.com. Countywide, the average detached home price reached nearly $850,000 by late 2025, even as total residential construction permitting fell 56.1% year-over-year, according to Douglas County Economic Development.
Custom builds at this level aren't cheap to produce, either — high-end luxury construction in Douglas County typically runs $450 or more per square foot in 2026 before land, permits, or site excavation, per RME Construction. The property's footprint also runs smaller than what's typical for the area: Franktown's Rural Residential zoning generally calls for lot minimums between 5 and 9.9 acres per home to preserve open space and pine vegetation, according to Gridics, though gated subdivisions like Arrowpoint Estates can offer smaller parcels.
Any new construction in Franktown's timbered Wildland-Urban Interface now also has to clear a fresh regulatory bar. Colorado's statewide Wildfire Resiliency Code took effect on July 1, mandating structure-hardening standards, including Class A fire-rated roofing and ignition-resistant siding, for new residential builds in designated wildfire zones, according to Garfield County.
Touring the 2026 Parade, From Firestone to the High Country
The Franktown ranch is one of just four genuine custom designs in this year's Parade of Homes, the Denver Gazette reports, inside an event that otherwise spans from Firestone to Castle Rock with 64 home designs from 27 other builders. Firestone alone has nine entries this year, while a cluster of new builds near Denver International Airport is concentrated in the Windler development in Aurora. Prices among the rest of the lineup range from $384,900 to $6 million, including several listed under $500,000 in Aurora, Bennett, and Firestone.
This year's event also expanded beyond the metro area, adding a 'Parade in the Peaks' high-country showcase with homes around Winter Park, a head-to-head townhome 'Designer Challenge,' and a mobile app for ticketing and tour mapping, according to The Villager.
Tickets run $12 for visitors 14 and older, with free admission for children 13 and under, and homes are open Thursday through Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.; touring maps are available at paradeofhomesdenver.com. A portion of ticket proceeds benefits the Home Builders Foundation of Metro Denver, a nonprofit founded in 1993 that builds ramps, roll-in showers, and widened doorways for people with physical disabilities across eight metro counties, according to the Colorado Senior Law Handbook.
