After living at the first "Sugar Mountain" for over 7 years, we noticed that progress was encroaching upon us.  There was talk for a few years about paving our county road.  We were located at the junction of 2 county gravel roads.  The camping cabins down by the lake, which were once part of the Tunnel Dam building project, were sold.  Traffic increased, dust got worse, and there were more and more people.  By 2005, though, we had quite a homesteading community built.  

As our remote area got less remote and more crowded with people, we were getting closer to having our property paid for.  We had 4 years left on our mortgages.  When a local developer began to buy up hundreds of acres in the area, we turned down his offer to buy ours.  After a year, we discussed the options we had.  If we sold, we could get out from under the fixer-upper farmhouse, pay off the mortgages, and buy another homestead somewhere else outright.  

Eventually, we accepted his offer and sold out our entire acreage.  Those of our community who chose to stay were able to do so, and contracts were just transferred from us to the new owner.  

Finding a new place and moving the community was quite a job.  You can see photo galleries of our progress by clicking on the link below:

New & Improved Sugar Mountain (Before)

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