Buying the Rockies

A couple is just starting out and they want to buy their first home in the Colorado Rockies. But all they can afford is a rustic cabin where they’ll be lucky if they find running water, let alone an indoor bathroom.

A couple loves to the hit the trails hiking and mountain biking, but their current home is too far from their favorite outdoor activities. They look for a place in the small gold mining town of Black Hawk, in the heart of the Colorado Rockies.

A couple is sick of the suburbs, and they're ready to head into the mountains to seek some solitude with their three sons. They tour three homes at the gateway to the Rockies, including one that looks like it flew out of a sci-fi movie.

A newly engaged couple wants to buy their first home together in the Rocky Mountains. He's lived in Colorado for years and is used to the lifestyle, but she's a city girl from New Jersey, and for her, it will be a big adjustment.

A couple of adventure seekers decide to pack up and move from the coast of Maine to the heights of the Utah Rockies. They're addicted to the mountain lifestyle and want a rustic home, with plenty of creature comforts.

An adventure guide is nicknamed "Sasquatch" for his love of the outdoors, while his wife likes to stay inside. They tour three homes in Park City, Utah, that bring the wilderness to their front step.

Newlyweds have combined their families into a Rockies Brady Bunch, and they need a place big enough for them and their six kids. This outdoorsy family searches for a log home in Island Park, Idaho, a mile high in the Rockies.

In the Rocky Mountains of Western Wyoming, a couple has struck it rich in the buffalo meat business and wants to buy a million-dollar mountain mansion. They see three homes in the posh Jackson Hole area, where each house is bigger than the next.

Newlyweds moved from Minnesota to Wyoming to be close to the mountains. Now they want to live in the mountains, in the cowboy town of Dubois, Wyoming. They're on the hunt for a home big enough to raise their future family in.

New parents won't let their two toddlers slow them down and seek to move their family to the mountains, but finding the perfect mountain home that's also kid-friendly proves to be a challenge.