You could buy Red Hills Ranch and own a chunk of Wyoming Wonderland, or you could just visit the Gros Ventre for a heckuva holiday.
Talk about a hot property and legendary listing, Red Hills Ranch—one of Wyoming’s truly iconic private estates—is on the market for the first time since 1975. The 190-acre sanctuary in the Gros Ventre River Valley was the cherished retreat of late U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl, who represented Midwestern Wisconsin but made his heart’s home in the Mountain West. The same Kohl behind retail empire Kohl’s department stores, the senator built a different kind of empire in the Cowboy State, comprising incomparable views of the Tetons and 1.5 miles of designated Wild & Scenic Gros Ventre River frontage—appointed with a main lodge, owner’s home and pool, and historic tack barn, plus three riverside cabins spread amidst irrigated pastures.
Too bad you can’t redeem your Kohl’s Cash for Red Hills Ranch because you’ll need to part with some serious scratch to fork over the $65 mil to own this piece of the promised land, where residents can hike, horseback ride, fly-fish, raft, snowmobile, and cross-country ski without ever leaving home. “Red Hills Ranch is one of God’s special creations. The Grand Teton view is right in front of you, and the Red Hills and cliffs are just as spectacular,” says Brian Cook, the longtime ranch manager who has overseen the property and managed its horse program, Wild & Scenic River access, and day-to-day stewardship for almost two decades. “The quiet of the mountains and the sound of the Gros Ventre River flowing by make it a place of retreat like no other,” he adds. “I hope someone with a good heart buys this special place.”
Don’t have the myocardial means for a Red Hills bid? The ranch is an inholding within the 300K-acre Gros Ventre Wilderness and the 3.4M-acre Bridger-Teton National Forest, and those public lands provide a vast escape for us hoi polloi. Visitors can hike stellar backcountry trails like the Cache Creek loop and camp among elk, moose, and bighorn sheep posing before a serrated Teton horizon. A-list neighbors here include Grand Teton National Park, the National Elk Refuge, dude ranch favorites like the historic Triangle X Ranch, and elevated Western digs just down the road in Jackson.
Find out more at redhillsranch.realestate.
A mere $65 mill buys Red Hills Ranch and this incomparable view of the Tetons.
