6425 Quartz Mine Road

Hanson Ranch · Mountain Ranch, Calaveras County, California

$497,500

3 bedrooms · 3 baths · 2,205 sq ft · 8.59 acres · built 1984 · private gated · no HOA

Most listings show you a house on one good afternoon.

This one shows you the year. Eight and a half acres behind a private gate, three bedrooms under an open beam ceiling, a cleared yard you can actually walk — seen the way you would live in it, from the first green in March to the quiet in January.

Interior

2,205 sq ft

Land

8.59 acres

Beds / Baths

3 / 3

Built

1984

A year at 6425 Quartz Mine Road

Rural property gets bought on a sunny Saturday and lived in for all twelve months. Here is the honest version, season by season.

March – May

The green comes back

The foothills turn for a few short weeks and the whole parcel changes character. What matters here is that the 8.59 acres includes real usable open ground — an expansive cleared yard around the house rather than brush pushed up to the doorstep. That is the difference between owning land and being able to walk it.

June – September

Shade, and long evenings

In July the square footage matters less than where the shade falls and where you can sit after seven. The house answers with an open floor plan and an open beam ceiling that gives the main room its height, then hands you the rest of it outdoors — a timber-framed gazebo on the deck, and covered outdoor living for the hours when inside is the wrong place to be.

October – November

The quiet season

This is when the privacy stops being a bullet point and becomes the reason you bought. You come in through your own gate, with complete 360-degree seclusion beyond it, no HOA with an opinion about what you do with the place, and pines where other people have neighbours’ windows. The summer traffic is gone and the road belongs to whoever lives on it.

December – February

Inside, mostly

A winter house is judged on one question: is the middle of it somewhere you want to be? Here that centre is a wood stove set into a white brick hearth, under the open beams, with the kitchen and its island a few steps away and new high-end flooring run throughout. Three bedrooms and three full baths means a full house over the holidays does not turn into a queue.

The house itself

The full tour

6425 Quartz Mine Rd seen from the cleared lawn, single-storey home among tall pines

Covered front porch and gabled entry of the home at 6425 Quartz Mine Rd

Side elevation of the home showing the full-length deck and railing

Private gated entry to the property, wrought iron gate with sun medallion

Great room with open beam vaulted ceiling in tongue-and-groove wood, dark wood floors and french doors

Open-plan living room under the vaulted wood ceiling looking through to the kitchen

Living room with wood-burning stove set against a white brick hearth under the open beam ceiling

Kitchen with large central island, gas cooktop, vent hood, double wall ovens and white cabinetry

Kitchen island with five-burner gas cooktop, stainless refrigerator and built-in ovens

Timber-framed gazebo on the deck with outdoor table and seating, looking out to pines

Covered deck with pergola shading outdoor seating alongside the house

Bathroom with freestanding soaking tub, double vanity and large window

Bedroom with dark wood flooring, ceiling fan and ensuite door

Expansive cleared yard in green grass ringed by oaks and pines

Open meadow on the parcel surrounded by mature pines

Open acreage under tall ponderosa pines with fence posts marking the boundary

Detached metal outbuilding and workshop on the property

Facts of record

Price	$497,500
Bedrooms	3
Bathrooms	3
Interior	2,205 sq ft
Lot	8.59 acres
Year built	1984
Community	Hanson Ranch, gated
HOA	None
County	Calaveras
Approx. price / sq ft	~$258

Features of record

Open floor plan
Spacious kitchen with large island
New high-end flooring throughout
Open beam ceiling in the living room
Complete 360-degree privacy
Private gated community, no HOA
Expansive cleared yard
Outdoor living space and gazebo

Ask the person who lives up here

Erik Katz has spent two decades in these foothill communities — West Point, Wilseyville, Rail Road Flat, Mokelumne Hill, Mountain Ranch. Rustic Country Real Estate is a local practice, not a call centre: clients as friends and family, rooted in community.