Green & Clean

South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker have built an eco-friendly mountain getaway.

Built in Steamboat Springs, Western Colorado, it is valued at $5 million and features ceilings made of Douglas fir timbers salvaged from a rail trestle that once spanned Great Salt Lake. It also uses recycled carpet and in-floor radiant heating.

There are no messes. No signs of Hollywood, parties or all-night production crunches.

Instead, the timber-frame home on nearly 2 acres near the base of the Steamboat Ski Area is filled with a Zen-like calm and a love of nature. Those feelings are portrayed through elegant wood finishes in the five bedrooms and bathrooms, high ceilings supported by Douglas fir timbers reclaimed from a railroad trestle that once spanned the Great Salt Lake and simple furnishings such as broad couches and a bathtub surrounded by sand.

There are views of the ski area from the front porch; a curved, granite kitchen counter with a leathered finish in shades of evergreen; and a mid-19th-century Japanese tansu, or antique chest of drawers, that faces a 110-inch projection screen. A Western dining room with sweeping views across the south valley is balanced by an Eastern dining room with low chairs and windows that look onto an aspen grove. In the rear of the property, at the end of a winding stone walkway, is a Japanese tea house that appears as authentic as one found in a Tokyo garden, with sliding screens as walls and tatami mats on the floor.

Hard to believe the house is the property of people who made a fortune on fart jokes, puppet sex and social satire grounded in lowbrow humor.

(photo from Craig Daily Press)