$179,000

Some land just feels right the moment you step onto it. This 2.5-acre parcel on River Road in prime Monterey has that quality, a generous level clearing that invites something to be built and loved here. With 550 feet of road frontage, the practical bones are exceptional. To the east and north, the property borders the Berkshire National Fish Hatchery, a working conservation landscape where trails thread through protected woodlands and the quiet restores. Across the road, the Konkapot runs. In spring, snowmelt fills it and you can hear it from the clearing. After a summer thunderstorm it rushes and tumbles, the sound filling the trees. Look closely in May and you may find old peonies pushing through the grass. A farmhouse once stood here. Something of it lingers.