Inside £200m Texas mega-ranch complete with its own airport, wedding chapel, 20 lakes and meat factory
The 65,000-acre Mesa Vista Ranch, owned by business magnate T. Boone Pickens, has just hit the market and it comes with a lot of interesting features
HERE’s a look at America’s most expensive property, which features a private airport, a wedding chapel, 20 lakes, a tennis court, a golf course, and a cinema.
It’s owned by business magnate T. Boone Pickens, and has just hit the market for a staggering £200 million.
The property also includes a building for storing firearms, a meat-processing centre, and man-made waterfalls and creeks.
The 65,000-acre estate sits in the Texas Panhandle, prime Quail hunting territory, and features a 12,000-sq-ft lake house, a 33,000-sq-ft lodge, a 6,000-sq-ft family house, a 1,700-sq-ft gatehouse and a 1,600-sq-ft pub.
Pickens, 89, was a lover of dogs and hunting, so the home also includes a 11,000-square-foot kennel, on-site veterinary lab, and 40 chain-link pens plus an outdoor exercise area.
Pickens, who founded BP Capital Management, even had his entire childhood home moved onto these lands from his home state of Oklahoma in 2008.
He bought the land in 1971, when all that existed in the are was little more than a corrugated iron shack.
As his wealth grew to a reported $500 million, so did his beloved Mesa Vista Ranch.
The property is packed with interesting details such as the stained glass door on the lake house, which used to belong to American singer Bing Crosby.
The airport features a 25,000-sq-ft hangar (with a 2-bed, 2-bath apartment for pilots) and a 6,000-foot airstrip.
All of the furnishings, farming equipment, trucks, and hunting gear are included.
