Set among stunning landscapes, these impressive ranches can be found for sale around the world and offer potential owners a rural escape with a purpose. Offering a slice of the good life, they are perfect places to isolate alongside acres of rolling land and state-of-the-art equestrian and cattle facilities. So saddle up and let's take a look around...

Found nestled in the idyllic hills of Umbria, Italy, this rather beautiful villa is surrounded by just under 100 acres of land, populated by vineyards, olive groves and foliage. The eight-bedroom cottage, built from natural stone, is certainly charming, but it's the stables that would really catch the eye of any cowboy looking to relocate to Italy…

With 13 boxes, the stables sit nearby the caretaker’s house and come complete with a horse walker for the training of English thoroughbred horses, which have been raised in the charming Umbrian property for Italian and International gallop races, according to the listing. 

The stunning and spacious 13-box stable boasts vaulted ceilings and smart, black trim wood-surrounds, while the rest of the 99-acre equestrian estate hosts a large swimming pool and one hectare of lawn. Ideal for shooting the breeze and cleaning your spurs, this dream residence is all yours for €2.8 million (£2.5m/$3m).

For further downtime activities, the eight-bedroom, eight-bathroom villa features a pool table in one of many entertaining rooms. Beautiful wood beams adorn the ceilings and complement terracotta tiled flooring, while semi-open plan living is achieved throughout via rustic cut-out doorways.

How about a private lakefront retreat, complete with its own private lake? This waterfront ranch is found in Bridge Lake, Canada and sits on a whopping 285 acres of land. Currently on the market with Sotheby's for CAD$5 million (£3m/$3.7m), let’s take a look around…

Not only does that outlay secure you the nine-bedroom wooden guest lodge, the ranch also comes with two guest log cabins, a two-bedroom 'log home', riding ring, barn/tack area and that impressive 285-acreage to roam around on.

Horses will get a good workout across the miles of trails here, while the lucky new owners and their guests can also enjoy the epitome of Canadian fishing and hiking. Currently, the ranch runs as a commercially certified guest ranch for three months of the year and the price tag includes all assets, equipment and the horses themselves.

Alongside five kitchens, you’ll find a welcoming 'saloon', ready to serve guests and host the ultimate hoedown. Described as a turnkey operation, the estate could be a profitable investment or simply an idyllic lakeside retreat for a horse-keen family.

This sprawling estate sits on approximately 100 acres of British countryside in Surrey. Approached via discreet iron entrance gates, the estate boasts a five-bedroom main house, three-bedroom ancillary cottage and extensive equestrian facilities and groom’s flat.

What’s more, for the £9.8 million ($11.7m) asking price, you’ll also assume ownership of some beautiful gardens, with plenty of pasture and woodland to roam about, as well as a home cinema, swimming pool, sauna and gym. But let’s take a look at where the horses will live…

Barbin’s Grange, as it is called, has a seven-stable yard complete with tack room, feed store, hay store and a two-bedroom grooms’ flat with kitchen and bathroom. Elsewhere, there are two outdoor arenas and parkland-style gardens with plentiful mature specimen trees, seven fenced paddocks and almost 19 acres of woodland. To the south of the house, you’ll find a “substantial area of pasture”, as per the listing, which was used as a polo pitch in a former life, while another pasture area was formerly a cross-country course.

Alongside the spacious farmhouse-style main residence—which includes a machinery barn—guest accommodation resides within Copse Cottage, comprising three bedrooms and a private garden, alongside a portable two-bedroom annexe or mobile home. You’ll also find a two-storey office that hosts a basement cinema room to unwind in after a long day tending to the steeds.

Described as one of the largest homes in the United States, this ranch sits at the end of Hobble Creek Canyon, boasting stunning views across the Wasatch Mountains in Utah. Residing across a magnificent 156 acres, with stables and paddocks, it is the ultimate equestrian estate. 

Built in 2010, the expansive estate is ideal for raising horses against a picture-perfect backdrop of trails and mountain-scapes. Hobble Creek Canyon also boasts a plethora of outdoor activities to enjoy alongside horse riding, including hiking, hunting, snowmobiling, cross-country skiing and a round or two at Utah's public golf courses.

Currently on the market for £14.7 million ($17.5m) with Sotheby's after previously being listed at £17.6 million ($21m) in 2021, the Hobble Creek property skews less towards the rustic, more towards the luxurious. Stretching across almost 51,000 square-foot of living space, the main residence boasts a grand entranceway with enormous 20-foot-high ceilings, chandelier and dual staircases.

Nestled within the magnificent residence you’ll find this resort-style swimming pool with waterslide, waterfall, lazy river, rope swing and hot tub for relaxing after a long day of horse treks. Elsewhere within the six-bedroom, 13-bathroom home there awaits a full basketball court, two-lane bowling alley, 27-seat home cinema and, of course, a shooting range area for the true cowboys among us.

How about a ranch in New Mexico with a western swashbuckling name? Be your own caped crusader at Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe—with stables, grass air strip and a hangar alongside a grand three-storey main house for £15.1 million ($18m) all in with Sotheby's International Realty.

The expansive primary residence hosts four bedrooms and offers incredible vistas of the New Mexico landscapes, along with luxurious interiors. Nearby you’ll also find the caretaker’s residence, The Lodge and the Log Cabin, alongside four more private residences in Ranch Central near the entry.

With enough room to harbour a large band of horses, the spacious stables are beautifully kept, with soaring vaulted ceilings and stretching walls of varnished wood. Alongside the huge stables, you’ll also find a firehouse and yurt on the land.

A wood-panelled tack room boasts a tan leather Chesterfield sofa, multiple horseshoe hangers for reins and plentiful hanging saddles ready to choose from. Just 35 minutes from nearby Santa Fe, this is a covetable New Mexico ranch fit for a cowboy and their whole brood.

If you fancy the best of both worlds, with a sprawling wild ranch just moments from the hustle and bustle of San Antonio city life, you’re in luck. Arroyo Vista Ranch sits behind a gated entrance just off Highway 46 in Texas, comprising a 138-acre compound brimming with mature sycamore, cypress and live oak trees alongside private water wells and plenty of grazing and hunting areas within pasture and woodland.

The Spanish Revival estate boasts a 4,800-square-foot main house, three separate guest casitas and this impressive, well-stocked trophy room. “Reminiscent of an African game lodge”, per the listing, you’ll find a thatched roof bar with limestone countertops surrounded by trophies and “curated collectables from all over the world” beneath the soaring vaulted latilla wood ceiling above.

Bursting with unique features, the three-bedroom main house merges modern amenities with “old world charm” and spectacular architectural details, with reclaimed hand-hewn wood beams and door headers, while natural light pours in through clerestories, large picture windows and French doors. You might also enjoy the "owner’s wing" bathroom, with turquoise tiling and a 3D sunflower mural surrounding the corner bath and solid wood monastery doors.

Alongside a den with built-in wet bar and wine fridge, rancheros can also enjoy an indoor shooting range, pool bath and shower, a rock spring house, picnic area with barbacoa pit as well as this covered porch with wood-burning fireplace. Ideal for taking in the Arroyo Vista scenery while your hamburger cooks to perfection. All this could belong to you and your herd for £16.4 million ($19.5m) with Sotheby's International Realty. 

This next ranch could be one for the dog lovers, as well as the cow herders and the horse riders. Y Bell Ranch is surrounded by the Cascade Mountains and rolling fields, with a fully operational cattle ranch, four-stall horse barn and heated dog kennels with runs. All this and plenty more could be yours (and Fido’s) for £16.8 million ($20m). Let’s take a tour…

The five-bedroom, five-bathroom main house is awash with luxury amenities, should you get jealous of your dogs and their heated residence. Enjoy a rustic wooden chef’s kitchen with Monogram appliances, a full bar, games area, cinema room and attached 9,200 square-foot trophy room to display your trappings.

The outbuildings include a steer barn, stables and cattle ranch with its own single-storey, three-bedroom Ranch Manager’s house. You’ll also find a hay shed, original barn, heifer calving set up, steel pens and state-of-the-art indoor arena with “well considered” tack and feed rooms to make sure your herds are kept nourished and happy.

To fully unwind after a hard day tending to the livestock, how about taking a stroll onto the patio with built-in pool and hot tub for a relaxing soak with a view? As the listing declares, Y Bell Ranch isn’t just a residence, or a ranch, “it’s a playground for ambitions, for imagination, for dreamers, and for doers”.

With plenty of barns, outbuildings and pastures to run your own ranch, this particular lakeside estate also comes complete with not one but two luxury lakeshore homes. Sitting on over 1,200 feet of shoreline on Shuswap Lake, Canada, you can enjoy your very own cove with two docks/buoys and a fully-serviced beach cabana.

Completed in 2020, the main home and second home total well over 14,300 square foot of living space, with 11 bedrooms and 14 bathrooms between them. Described as a luxury corporate retreat, the ranch also hosts a professional boardroom seating more than 12, should you fancy turning the estate into a corporate business destination.

Low-hanging beams and handsome wood flooring complement the fresh neutral décor throughout, while a floating stone wall houses an integrated fire burner creating a cosy atmosphere in one of eleven bedrooms on the estate. Multiple terraces await on each level, offering plenty of space to sit and enjoy the lake views.

The ultimate in luxury ranches, you can access Shuswap Lake retreat by floatplane, helicopter, car or boat. Whether you need extra space for your cattle herds and horse stables, or a luxe retreat for your corporate ventures, this 78-acre ranch in an idyllic lakeside location is perfect for both and is on sale now for CAD$30 million (£18m/$21.9m).

This German stately stud farm boasts an array of covetable amenities for the animal-loving cowboy in all of us, including a horse exercise area and treatment and therapy centre, horse stadium, indoor riding arena, plus a veterinary practice on-site for large and small animals. The estate focuses on the breeding of Trakehners, the “legendary riding horse breed that originated in Trakehnen/East Prussia”, for which the Soelring estate is known today, according to the listing.

The seaside stud farm is divided into two, between residential buildings/outhouses and the adjacent recreational and agricultural land. As the listing describes, the “soul of the estate" is the stables for the Trakehner mother mares, indoor riding arena, surrounding boarding stable and hay storage with granny apartment. The veterinary practice hosts a holiday apartment on the upper floor, offering a space for horse owners to stay while their animals are being cared for at Soelring.

Alongside the equestrian areas, the estate plays host to a beautifully kept rose rondel, overgrown wild gardens and a koi pond. You’ll also find a barbecue house and two garden houses for keeping guests as well-fed as the animals.

Inside the nine-bedroom main house, you’ll find open-plan living adorned with handsome wood flooring and neutral decor. A large dining table takes centre stage, ready to host multiple guests or visitors to therapeutic Soelring Estate now on the market at €24.5 million (£21.5m/$26.1m) with Sylt Sotheby's International Realty.

Occupying over 3,900 majestic acres in the state of New York, Savannah Dhu, currently on the market for £41.1 million ($49m), was created with self-sufficiency in mind. Private roads wind through the property, connecting the main lodge, additional residences and agricultural facilities.

The main property, Pine Lodge, is the lot's pièce de résistance, with 25,000 square feet of rustic-yet-regal living space on offer, including 10 bedrooms and 12 bathrooms. In the great room, a huge chandelier built by local artisans is the star of the show, while a vast stone fireplace towers over the seating area. Luxury touches aren't forgotten either—there's also a home theatre, bar and wine cellar to enjoy.

There are a number of outbuildings scattered across the acreage, including an 1800s Dutch-style barn that can accommodate up to 30 guests. Hidden in the woodlands, West Lodge and Hadden House offer additional accommodation, so visitors to this amazing estate can stay in their own picturesque property.

Complete with a conference centre and catering kitchen, there's plenty of commercial potential for the property. However, it's the estate's outdoor amenities that really shine. Private lakes, silos, organic gardens, greenhouses and equestrian facilities, plus barns filled with livestock, pepper the rolling grounds. Whether you want to work the land, create an eco-retreat or just bask in the beauty of nature, it doesn't get much better than this.

With a whopping 424,000 contiguous acres, this sprawling Texas ranch is half the size of the state of Rhode Island. Brewster Ranch has been carefully compounded over several decades and today consists of 22 properties, including seven different ranches. The space also boasts vast expanses of field and brush—the preserved habitat of plenty of ranching wildlife—as well as numerous natural springs, creeks and rivers, plus a complex system of subterranean wells.

The spectacular ranch is also steeped in local history, having retained much of the appearance and environment of the original ranching settlements of the 19th-century pioneers. The entire parcel includes 10 different ‘headquarters’, but the two primary bases are Horse Mountain and Chaney Headquarters, each of which comprises not only significant main houses but multiple outbuildings, bunk houses and guest houses. There are also a series of older airstrips scattered across the ranch at the various headquarters.

Perhaps the most exceptional part of the property, however, is not its size or its structures, but instead the incredible diversity and scope of its natural environment. Lush with desert brush and blooms, and rich in natural water, the land plays host to a wide variety of desert mule deer, javelina, desert big-horn sheep, elk, aoudad, mountain lion and black bear, as well as a vast assortment of local birds.

With so much upkeep required to maintain a property of this scope, the ranch is currently being leased to several local ranchers who help maintain its infrastructure and oversee improvements, which include the recent reworking of the main roads that traverse the property. Perhaps because of the daunting amount of required maintenance, Brewster Ranch has so far struggled to secure a buyer and has had to reduce its list price from £342 million ($413.4m) down to £190 million ($230.3m).

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