POV: You Bought the Ranch Beside 317,784 Acres Nobody Can Ever Build On
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Sixty-five million dollars for one hundred and ninety acres — three hundred and forty-two thousand dollars an acre, fifty-three times what the Texas ranch cost. It is the smallest and most expensive property we have ever walked. And it feels bigger than any of them. The reason is on the other side of the fence line: 317,784 acres of designated Wilderness where no road, no building and no machine can legally exist, permanently. A mile and a half of the Wild and Scenic Gros Ventre River runs through the pastures — the same river that came down the valley in 1927 and took the town of Kelly apart. In this POV tour we walk five log buildings, count the water, tell the story of the largest rockslide in American history, and get to a property tax bill that is not what anyone would guess.
⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00:00 You Just Bought 190 Acres
00:00:38 Welcome to Red Hills Ranch
00:01:28 The Lodge
00:02:18 The Land & The River
00:03:24 The Story
00:04:48 The Numbers
00:06:19 Can It Pay for Itself?
00:07:09 The Honest Part
00:08:08 The Answer
00:09:04 Welcome Home
🏔️ THE RANCH
· 190± acres · Kelly, Wyoming (Gros Ventre River Valley, Teton County)
· 1.5 miles of frontage on the Wild & Scenic Gros Ventre River
· Blue-ribbon native trout fishery · irrigation water rights included
· Main lodge, owner's home and three riverfront cabins — five buildings
· 16 bedrooms · 15 bathrooms · log construction · shake roof
· Cathedral ceilings, hardwood floors, sold furnished (artwork excluded)
· Pool · tack barn · horse set-up · irrigated pastures
· Grand Teton, Gros Ventre and valley views
· Surrounded by Bridger-Teton National Forest and the Gros Ventre Wilderness
· No CC&Rs, not in a subdivision, adjacent public land, forest access
· Well water · septic · electric baseboard and cove heating · no cooling
· Built 1976 · unfinished basement · gravel roads
· 25 miles to downtown Jackson
📖 THE STORY
On the morning of 23 June 1925 the north face of Sheep Mountain broke free — roughly 50 million cubic yards of rock, half a mile wide, moving at about fifty miles an hour. It remains the largest rockslide in recorded American history. It landed in the Gros Ventre River and dammed it, forming a natural dam around 225 feet high and creating Lower Slide Lake. Engineers and geologists examined it and declared it safe. The people of Kelly slept in tents on high ground for months anyway, then eventually moved back into their houses. On 18 May 1927 the dam partially failed. The forest supervisor saw farm equipment coming downriver, drove up the valley, met a wall of water and turned back to reach a telephone. By 11:30 that morning the town of Kelly was gone — around 75 buildings destroyed, six people killed, roughly 40 families left with nothing. Only the school, the church and the parsonage were left standing. The scar on Sheep Mountain is still visible from the valley floor.
💰 THE NUMBERS
· $65,000,000 for 190 acres ≈ $342,105 per acre
· Annual property tax per the listing: $31,130 — about 0.048% of price
· Gros Ventre Wilderness: 317,784 acres, designated 1984
· Bridger-Teton National Forest: about 3.4 million acres
· 746 days on the market as of August 2026
· Jackson 25 miles
🔗 Listing: Live Water Properties LLC · MLS# 24-2107
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/15...
📷 Photos: Live Water Properties LLC
🎵 Music: YouTube Music Library
⚠️ Not financial, legal, or tax advice. All figures are rough estimates for illustration only.
⚠️ Value and market commentary is the creator's illustration and entertainment only. NOT part of the listing, not affiliated with or endorsed by the owner or brokers.
⚠️ Some clips are licensed stock footage and do NOT show this property — illustration only. Only the still photographs come from the actual listing.
#wyoming #jacksonhole #ranchforsale #POV #luxuryrealestate #grosventre #flyfishing #tetons #dreamhome #landforsale
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POV: You Bought the Ranch Beside 317,784 Acres Nobody Can Ever Build On
Quiet Listings
17,819 views
Sixty-five million dollars for one hundred and ninety acres — three hundred and forty-two thousand dollars an acre, fifty-three times what the Texas ranch cost. It is the smallest and most expensive property we have ever walked. And it feels bigger than any of them. The reason is on the other side of the fence line: 317,784 acres of designated Wilderness where no road, no building and no machine can legally exist, permanently. A mile and a half of the Wild and Scenic Gros Ventre River runs through the pastures — the same river that came down the valley in 1927 and took the town of Kelly apart. In this POV tour we walk five log buildings, count the water, tell the story of the largest rockslide in American history, and get to a property tax bill that is not what anyone would guess.
⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00:00 You Just Bought 190 Acres
00:00:38 Welcome to Red Hills Ranch
00:01:28 The Lodge
00:02:18 The Land & The River
00:03:24 The Story
00:04:48 The Numbers
00:06:19 Can It Pay for Itself?
00:07:09 The Honest Part
00:08:08 The Answer
00:09:04 Welcome Home
🏔️ THE RANCH
· 190± acres · Kelly, Wyoming (Gros Ventre River Valley, Teton County)
· 1.5 miles of frontage on the Wild & Scenic Gros Ventre River
· Blue-ribbon native trout fishery · irrigation water rights included
· Main lodge, owner's home and three riverfront cabins — five buildings
· 16 bedrooms · 15 bathrooms · log construction · shake roof
· Cathedral ceilings, hardwood floors, sold furnished (artwork excluded)
· Pool · tack barn · horse set-up · irrigated pastures
· Grand Teton, Gros Ventre and valley views
· Surrounded by Bridger-Teton National Forest and the Gros Ventre Wilderness
· No CC&Rs, not in a subdivision, adjacent public land, forest access
· Well water · septic · electric baseboard and cove heating · no cooling
· Built 1976 · unfinished basement · gravel roads
· 25 miles to downtown Jackson
📖 THE STORY
On the morning of 23 June 1925 the north face of Sheep Mountain broke free — roughly 50 million cubic yards of rock, half a mile wide, moving at about fifty miles an hour. It remains the largest rockslide in recorded American history. It landed in the Gros Ventre River and dammed it, forming a natural dam around 225 feet high and creating Lower Slide Lake. Engineers and geologists examined it and declared it safe. The people of Kelly slept in tents on high ground for months anyway, then eventually moved back into their houses. On 18 May 1927 the dam partially failed. The forest supervisor saw farm equipment coming downriver, drove up the valley, met a wall of water and turned back to reach a telephone. By 11:30 that morning the town of Kelly was gone — around 75 buildings destroyed, six people killed, roughly 40 families left with nothing. Only the school, the church and the parsonage were left standing. The scar on Sheep Mountain is still visible from the valley floor.
💰 THE NUMBERS
· $65,000,000 for 190 acres ≈ $342,105 per acre
· Annual property tax per the listing: $31,130 — about 0.048% of price
· Gros Ventre Wilderness: 317,784 acres, designated 1984
· Bridger-Teton National Forest: about 3.4 million acres
· 746 days on the market as of August 2026
· Jackson 25 miles
🔗 Listing: Live Water Properties LLC · MLS# 24-2107
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/15...
📷 Photos: Live Water Properties LLC
🎵 Music: YouTube Music Library
⚠️ Not financial, legal, or tax advice. All figures are rough estimates for illustration only.
⚠️ Value and market commentary is the creator's illustration and entertainment only. NOT part of the listing, not affiliated with or endorsed by the owner or brokers.
⚠️ Some clips are licensed stock footage and do NOT show this property — illustration only. Only the still photographs come from the actual listing.
#wyoming #jacksonhole #ranchforsale #POV #luxuryrealestate #grosventre #flyfishing #tetons #dreamhome #landforsale