Dirt Flight is not a drone photography service. To get aerial photos of a Colorado parcel, enter the county and the APN. The boundary is drawn from county assessor parcel data and the pack renders in about ten minutes: an outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video and a contour map that shows which way the view faces. Nobody flies out, so there is no travel charge, and all 64 counties render.
- Coverage
- Statewide, from county records
- Turnaround
- About 10 minutes
- Travel charge
- None, ever
- Imagery age
- One to three years
Elevation is the product, and flat photos hide it.
Colorado land sells on the view and the climb. Five acre pieces in the San Luis Valley, mountain parcels off a forest road, ranchland out east where the only vertical feature is a windmill. What the buyer wants is the view line and whether a truck gets up the drive in March.
County assessor parcel data is what the boundary is drawn from, so coverage here is complete rather than partial. The four cardinal 3D views show which way the view faces, which is the most asked question on Colorado land, and the contour map shows the grade of the access.
Boundaries are approximate, from public parcel data, and are not a survey.
One APN. Everything below.
One parcel, one APN, everything below. Sage and pinyon, a two track in from the county road, and the range on the western horizon.
Everything in the pack
This is the whole Colorado delivery.
Every view below came back from one parcel number, in about ten minutes, with no pilot and no site visit.
Where Colorado land actually trades.
These are the ones land buyers ask for most, each with its own page.
Do not see your county? Every one of the 64 renders. Send the APN and it comes back the same ten minutes.
Asked by people selling Colorado ground.
Which Colorado counties can you do?
Send the county and the APN and we go straight to that county's own parcel records. Coverage varies: some states publish one statewide layer, others leave it county by county. If yours is one where the records are not public, you hear it from us before anything is charged.
How much does a drone photographer cost for a rural Colorado listing?
Dirt Flight is not a drone photography service, so this is not our fee. A Colorado pilot quotes the shoot plus the drive, and the drive to a five acre parcel outside San Luis is four hours each way over a pass. Dirt Flight renders the parcel from licensed aerial imagery and public elevation data instead of sending anyone up in the air, so there is no travel charge, no scheduling and no weather day.
Can a buyer see which direction the view faces?
That is what the four cardinal 3D views are for. Looking from each side shows what the parcel faces, where the range sits and whether a rise blocks it, which is usually the deciding question on mountain land.
Does it show whether the access road is drivable?
It shows what is there: county road, graded gravel, two track or nothing, plus the grade it climbs on the contour map. Whether a particular truck makes it in mud season is still a judgment call, and we do not pretend otherwise.
How recent is the imagery on a Colorado parcel?
One to three years, and the date is on the pack rather than buried in a footnote. A new driveway cut or a beetle-kill thinning from this year will not show until the next flight. If something changed on the ground recently, say so in the listing text.
What exactly comes back for a Colorado APN?
Six pieces: the outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, the 18 second orbit, a contour map, a context map and a parcel info sheet. Paydirt adds road frontage views, infrared, a social kit and the full resolution files. Colorado sellers put the contour map and the 3D views front and center.
Got a Colorado parcel under contract?
Send the county and the APN. If your invite is not open yet we will still look at the first one by hand.