GRAHAM FAUPEL MENDENHALL & ASSOCIATES
ROB DESLAURIERS
A Legacy Property at Crescent H Ranch
Spanning more than 71 acres, boasting 10+ acres of trout ponds and live water, and with direct view of the Tetons. The Ranch’s huge spread features an 8300 sq ft main home, as well as a fully-restored modern office and play barn, riding arena, horse corrals, a management cabin/ office, and three guest cabins.
Main Residence
Basecamp Barn
Basecamp Cabins
S Fall Creek Road
Horse Arena
Basecamp
Fish Creek
Main Residence
Snake River
Five Ponds Ranch
Owning this ranch affords a buyer a total compound footprint of up to 30,000 sq ft of buildings. Five Ponds Ranch comprises a genuine legacy estate with all of the elements of a generational property with extensive water, fishing, horses, and trails, plus plenty of room for tennis and pickleball courts, pools, a car barn, and dedicated event space. That dream gets a lot of lip service in these parts, but this ranch is the real deal.
All of this is set in Crescent H Ranch, Jackson’s most desirable neighborhood, with countless miles of private certified blue-ribbon year-round fishing, hiking, riding, groomed nordic skiing, and direct access to millions of acres of wilderness. The Ranch sits off Fall Creek Road, one of the most scenic small road drives in all of Wyoming. This road sees almost no tourist traffic and is ideal for road cycling and access to overlooked trail networks and locals-only swimming holes. Just single-digit minutes from the ranch, you’ll be in Teton Pass with all of its hiking and backcountry skiing, as well as a short drive or bike ride to all of the legendary West Bank, Wilson, and Town of Jackson lifestyle. Capping it off is your 15-minute door-todoor drive from the Ranch to Jackson Hole Mountain Resort itself. No need to tangle with the westbound bridge backups on the way to a powder day. Overall, there is simply nothing like this ranch available in the Jackson area.
10+ acres of ponds and flowing live water
• Main home 8,308 square feet Restored barn 4,600 square feet
• Studio and Office 1,250 square feet
• Three 1,000 square foot, 3-bedroom guest cabins
• Primary pond with a depth of 28’
• Located within Crescent H Ranch
• Horses allowed
• Hiking, biking, horse back riding, nordic
• Total of 30,000 square feet of development rights
Surrounded by Water
The 8,308 square foot, 5 bedroom, 8 bathroom home sits on a peninsula surrounded by yearround ponds fed directly from Fish Creek and Alder Creek. The Ranch’s main pond comes right up underneath the home’s outdoor deck. Building regulations have changed so that structures like this can never again be located this close to water, but this house is grandfathered in. Canoeing, kayaking, stand-up paddling, and swimming in the ponds are a regular treat for the family who resides here, plus extensive waterfront outdoor decks and large lawns make for perfect opportunities to gather, play, and relax.
The current owners have planted over 100 mature trees for maximum beauty and privacy, and have spared no expense in enhancing the conservation value and biodiversity of the Ranch. Accessed only by state-of-the-art gates off Fall Creek Road, the Ranch is a Teton utopia, despite being just minutes from all that Jackson has to offer. The owners built a private trail system meandering throughout the property for miles and providing for hikes and mountain biking, as well as nordic skiing during the winter months. While trout are present natively across the Ranch, the primary pond, with depths reaching 28’, is stocked with cutthroat trout which, because they are in private water, can be brought inside to eat, versus the catch-and-release in the creeks and rivers.
Built by the original developers of the Crescent H Ranch for themselves because they deemed it the most desirable lot in the Ranch, the home’s two-story great room with a wet bar and wood-burning fireplace has views spanning from the Tetons across the range to Mt. Glory.
The main floor includes a beautiful office with full Teton views, a luxurious kitchen, dining room with fireplace, family room with another fireplace, breakfast nook, walk-in pantry with sink, full laundry room, and two powder baths.
At night, the family gathers in a media room with a pool table, wet bar, full bath, and step-out treehouse esthetics deck. If a buyer chose, this spacious room could also serve as a bedroom considering its full bath.
The home features a ground-floor master suite with separate his and her bathrooms and walk-in closets, as well as its own wet bar and laundry. The owners wake up gazing directly at the Tetons over peaceful water framed by gorgeous cottonwoods, spruce, aspens, and new willows.
Upstairs, you’ll find three bedrooms each with en-suite bathrooms, an open lofted hallway with Teton views for reading, a separate loft currently used as a craft room, and a mother-in-law apartment complete with laundry and a wet bar.
Back down below, the 1200 square foot heated garage with finished closet space and a bonus storage room comfortably houses their cars, bikes, kayaks, canoes, waders, rods, tackle, and all manner of outdoor adventure gear.
Ranch Improvements
Since acquiring the Ranch, the current owners have invested millions of dollars intoupgrades of the land itself. This includes extensive tree and natural landscape planting, large-scale berming, tree removal and care, driveway and parking area grading, bridge installation, and other improvements including new irrigation wells and restoration of the historic buckrail fences. The primary pond had an aeration system added and has been restored to full health while also being enhanced with flow upgrades to ensure consistent water levels yearround. The family also spearheaded a successful project to underground the overhead power lines that used to pass in front of the Ranch. The Ranch also now has a new high-security powered entry gate through its grand entrance. Inside the home, the current owners have fully updated the HVAC system, replaced the water heaters, installed a new propane boiler, added whole-home humidification, installed a house-wide ultraviolet and water filtration system, and pulled enhanced electrical power to the site to support future loads. The family also pulled a direct fiber optic Internet line with Starlink backup, added Control4 and Sonos to control A/V throughout, introduced a keyless entry system, and installed a hot tub sunken into the deck off of the master suite.
Nothing Like It
All told, on the east side (water side) of the Crescent H Ranch, there are only fifteen deeded 35-acre parcels. Of those, four have had their development rights completely extinguished. Of the eleven remaining, two families own two contiguous parcels each. So, effectively, there are only nine parcels that touch the water, and they almost never come up for sale. One interesting note about Five Ponds Ranch is that it has one of the few parcels in the area that has not been conserved.
Donating a conservation easement to the Jackson Hole Land Trust could create a charitable tax donation deduction and potentially add an additional 10,000 sq ft development entitlement to the lot. However, as it stands already today, with three entitlements and generous building envelopes spanning the Ranch, the owner can build out a total of 24,000 sq ft of residential space, plus up to 6,000 sq ft of barns, garages, entertainment buildings, man caves, etc. With an additional entitlement, the owner would be able to add another 10,000 sq ft of permitted building.
Basecamp, A True Modern Ranch
Five Ponds Ranch served as the core of the horse operations when Crescent H was still operating as a dude ranch. Since the 1920’s, slickers from around the country would trek out to learn to ride and rope as well as fish the miles of creeks at the first Orviscertified fishing location in the world. The current owners acquired the property from the estate of the family that purchased it just after the dude ranch operations ceased and the neighborhood became exclusively reserved for residents. Thus, at the heart of the Ranch, you’ll find a 4,600 square-foot climatecontrolled and lofted barn with an additional 1,000 square feet of enclosed storage bays on each side. The barn was fully renovated just two years ago with no expense spared, and the result is a multipurpose building that the current owners use every day. It’s an office, an entertaining and gathering space, an art and craft studio, and a year-round play space for kids and adults alike, complete with an El Dorado professional climbing wall, adjustable height basketball hoop, epoxy-finished floors downstairs, and oak plank floors upstairs.
Near this incredible barn, there are four other structures. The first is what used to be the administrative, kitchen, and laundry facilities for the working ranch. The current owners fully renovated this space to become a studio apartment with office space for a property manager or family assistant, an upgraded laundry facility, a project prep room, and a built-in professional dog wash station. This facility also includes a separate room designated for storage. In addition to this are three restored guest cabins that, combined, include nine bedrooms. Whether hosting the whole extended family or pulling together a corporate retreat, it’s nearly impossible to match the Ranch’s total of 15 bedrooms.
Dating back to the days of the dude ranch operations, the property still has one of the largest riding and roping arenas in Teton County. This is complemented by multiple horse corrals around the south end of the parcel. Currently, the owners allow the riding school next door to pasture their horses in those corrals. It’s been a treat to experience the joy of having those majestic creatures around and always available for a visit or a feeding with some carrots and apples, but without actually having to be responsible for their care. The family has enjoyed taking riding lessons at the neighbor’s ranch on those same horses. As part of the owners’ extensive restoration investments, you’ll find countless new mature spruce, willows, and aspens to create visual privacy and enhance the lot’s overall topography. They also reclaimed thousands of square feet of land that had been trampled by the commercial horse operation, reviving the vast meadows and lawns.
Five Ponds Ranch is truly a blank canvas for whatever the owner can imagine, ranging from guest houses to full entertainment facilities. There is plenty of room to build things like an indoor gym and basketball court, tennis/pickle/padel, spa and treatment rooms, yoga facility, indoor pool, full theater, meeting venue, a recording studio or broadcast space, bar/party room, toy and car showcase garage, lookout tower, horse barn, golf simulator, arcade, extensive wine cellar, gallery space, just name it. The sky is the limit, and these structures, all with views of the Grand Tetons itself, can be built in virtually any architectural style, from traditional to contemporary.
Details
Spread: 71.25 Acres
Bedrooms: 15 across multiple structures
Main home 8308 sq ft with 5 beds and 8 baths
Restored barn is 4600 sq ft with a powder bath
Studio and office of 1250 sq ft and a 3/ 4 bath
Three cabins with 9 bedrooms totaling ~3000 sq ft and 6 3/ 4 baths
30,000 sq ft total buildable space permitted
All told, the Ranch features 16,000 sq ft of buildings with 15 bedrooms, 14 baths, and 71.25 acres that includes over ten acres of ponds and flowing creeks.
Entitlements & Coordinated Improvements
• The current property owners were able to bury the power lines along the roadway to improve the aesthetics of the Ranch.
• Aligned the Ranch driveways so they are directly across from one another. With the move of the entrance to The Barn, the family was able to treat both as one contiguous property.
• The Property is secured by a keypad entry gates.
• At a maximum,these two properties have 16,000 square feet, 10 bedrooms, 14 baths, 71.25 acres,with a potential to build up to 30,000 square feet. Truly not able to be re-created anywhere within the Jackson Hole valley.
• Private trail system that meanders between the two parcels that also connect to the Crescent H trail system for hiking, mountain biking, and Nordic skiing or snow biking during the winter season.
Across this impressive property is every recreational opportunity and comfort one could ask for all within minutes of the world-class skiing of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort and the Arts and Community of the Town of Jackson.
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