Property the Stackly
Four agents, four towns and one routine: read the paper, walk the ground, answer the hard questions and put the costs on the table before anyone signs.
High desert
Tumalo Juniper Lot
Tumalo, near Bend, Oregon
$395,000
Acreage
3 acres
Frontage
412 ft on a paved county road
Power
At the lot line
Water
Well to be drilled, plus 1.5 acres of irrigation
Septic
Site evaluation approved, April 2026
Zoning
RR-10, Deschutes County
About this parcel
A level pad, old junipers and the mountains to the west.
This is the kind of lot people in Central Oregon wait for. Three acres on the quiet side of Tumalo, with old western junipers along the north line and a level, open pad in the middle that needs almost no cut or fill. Stand on the pad in the late afternoon and Broken Top and the Three Sisters line up across the west.
The hard questions already have answers. The septic site evaluation was approved by Deschutes County in April, power is at the lot line, and the paved county road gives year-round access without a private road agreement. The two closest wells were drilled at 260 and 310 feet, which is normal for this part of Tumalo.
The parcel also carries 1.5 acres of Tumalo Irrigation District water. The seller has used the share every season, so it is current, and it makes a small pasture, an orchard or a serious vegetable garden realistic in a place where most land is dry by July.
At a glance
Acreage
3 acres
Frontage
412 ft on a paved county road
Power
At the lot line
Water
Well to be drilled, plus 1.5 acres of irrigation
Septic
Site evaluation approved, April 2026
Zoning
RR-10, Deschutes County
Property tax
About $1,900 a year as bare land
Walking the parcel
What we found, from the road to the back line.
01
The approach
You turn off the paved county road onto a short dirt apron the county has already approved for a driveway. The road is plowed in winter and is the school bus route.
02
The building pad
A natural flat of roughly half an acre sits about 140 feet back from the road. It drains to the south and east and stayed dry when we walked it after an October storm.
03
Junipers and ground
The junipers on the north line are old growth and worth keeping as a windbreak. The ground is sandy loam over pumice, easy to dig, with rock only near the east corner.
04
Water and irrigation
The irrigation ditch runs along the south boundary with a headgate already in place. A well site is marked near the pad, 100 feet from the approved septic area.
05
Sun and views
The pad is open to the south and west. The mountain view is from the pad itself, so a house sited there keeps it without building up.
06
Neighbours and noise
Two homes sit on neighbouring five-acre lots, both set well back. The loudest sound on our visit was irrigation sprinklers and a few cattle across the road.
The neighbourhood
Tumalo: farm roads, a good school and Bend fifteen minutes away.
Tumalo is a small farming community between Bend and Sisters. It has a store, a cafe, a feed shop, a state park on the Deschutes River and a well-liked K to 5 school. Most lots are three to ten acres, many with irrigation, so the area still feels rural even as Bend grows.
Tumalo store and cafe
4 minutes
Tumalo Community School
5 minutes
Downtown Bend
15 minutes
Sisters
20 minutes
Redmond airport
25 minutes
Mt. Bachelor
45 minutes
Schedule a land walk
Walk it with Renee before you make an offer.
A land walk takes about an hour. Renee meets you at the road, walks the boundary with you, shows you the septic test holes and the well site, and brings copies of every record we have on the parcel.
Wear boots. Junipers and pumice are hard on sneakers, and the ditch bank is soft in spring.
