courierguy wrote:I'll have to find the sales description of the property, should make for an interesting read! Sounds like a bargain actually. I mean, pick a number..., it's unique. I wonder if the road down one side of the mountain to the airstrip and the large hangar go with it? It was added after the fact, and was the crowning touch I thought.. Over the decades I've been eyeballing it, I've seen continuous signs of more bells and whistles. I will be in the area shortly and will see if I can lay hands on one of those free magazines that feature homes in the area, they are always good for a laugh, due to the inflated pricing of anything within eyesight of the Tetons!

Zillow ad has about 100 pictures.

Deon Heiner was the wild one of the bunch. Do some digging and be entertained….

Bedford gets the most snow in Star Valley every winter. I bet that mountain top is challenging. It will be for sale for a while and probably not fetch full ask….

Joe Ricketts (TD Ameritrade) bought up most of Renegade Airpark on Greys River last year. That had a $45 mil price tag. That was a Call family member project.

Freedom Air Ranch is on 100 acres and has been for sale at $7mil for years. It’s the sweetest strip in the valley.

The Heiner airstrip has sold a couple homes on 10 acres with access in the last couple years for under $1.5 mil.

There's one strip, (out of what, a half dozen or more in the Star Valley) with a big hangar and a big home, about halfway between Afton and Alpine, that makes me laugh every time I fly over it. It looks like half golf course and half grass airstrip, like they couldn't make up their mind, so finally someone said, let's have both! I'll check out the Zillow ad, I finally get a peek inside!

https://robbreport.com/shelter/homes-fo ... 235590818/

A cool one in Wisconsin is WS51 Leeward Farm airport. The Land's End founder built it. There's a big place in the valley below too.

courierguy wrote:There's one strip, (out of what, a half dozen or more in the Star Valley) with a big hangar and a big home, about halfway between Afton and Alpine, that makes me laugh every time I fly over it. It looks like half golf course and half grass airstrip, like they couldn't make up their mind, so finally someone said, let's have both! I'll check out the Zillow ad, I finally get a peek inside!

https://robbreport.com/shelter/homes-fo ... 235590818/

That’s Freedom Air Ranch.

I met Mark about 20 years ago when he was at Aviat. Didn’t realize he was royalty lol.

Then there's the place that SHOULD have a strip, but doesn't. One smaller and older home, with a red metal roof I think, a cabin really, and it sits all by itself mid valley on a little hill that is in alfafa that has the same exact slope as my own strip. For years every time I fly by there I want to land it, but hold off, it's a perfect setup but i guess they don't fly!

Then there the cabin right at the mouth of Tincup, sits up above the valley a few hundred feet, with trees cleared in a swath that sure looks like they planned a strip there. I watched the footings go in, saw the cabin go up as time went by, but never saw a plane there. Also a good steep slope like mine, making takeoffs and landing a breeze, there is just no other reason for those trees to be cleared, in a narrow several hundred feet long swath, as they were that makes any sense, at least to my eyes.

The strip, where the guy built his own control tower looking structure, on the side of his hangar, saw that go up also, a buddy in the crane biz there set his trusses, I think that's my favorite setup in the valley. When Dallas Clinger, former WW2 Flying Tiger, ran the cafe at the junction by Alpine, talking 40 years ago now, I used to land my UL on the highway in front, at his insistance, and get a free breakfast! I also used to land by his brother's Cub Clinger 5 star inn (forget it's name), again with full permission and encouragement. A couple times in the flats by the river, across from the then Red Baron, until the Alpine strip got developed to it's current state, those days are over. I just hope to hell the Aviat people continue to allow me to use their gate so I can taxi over to the old strip, and be a short walk from the cafes, the Ace Hardware store, and the Boomgars farm supply place. Some years ago, when they changed the layout and put the gate up, I told them I had grandfather rights, they laughed and said "have at it." That mechanic shop next door to Aviat,, I park on his back lawn, usually, almost always, on a Sunday morning so both places not open, I need to tell them that sometime and thank them.

Too bad the winters are harsh…

Those castles look pretty but it would wear a guy out chopping enough wood to heat it. No thanks

I was looking for elk with binoculars out my back window one day when I saw some earth moving equipment up on the hill. Whats being built here? I'll have to plead the fifth on how I got some of these photos. It took me five years to get them.

10 photos worth a thousand words. let your imagination run wild.

Thanks for sharing. Prepper with cash?

How long is that airstrip? 300 feet? Serious STOL performance required, at a high density altitude to boot!

skyward II wrote:Thanks for sharing. Prepper with cash?

Microsoft

slowmover wrote:How long is that airstrip? 300 feet? Serious STOL performance required, at a high density altitude to boot!

I measured 390 feet on Google Earth.

slowmover wrote:How long is that airstrip? 300 feet? Serious STOL performance required, at a high density altitude to boot!

RC enthusiast.

That strip is plenty long enough, BUT, it's too level! Mine is 400' and at 5600', but the steepness makes it feel like 800' at least. In this case, either the guy has plans for a Steve Henry type hot rod, or it's for RC.

courierguy wrote:That strip is plenty long enough, BUT, it's too level! Mine is 400' and at 5600', but the steepness makes it feel like 800' at least. In this case, either the guy has plans for a Steve Henry type hot rod, or it's for RC.[/quot

Zzz wrote:

slowmover wrote:How long is that airstrip? 300 feet? Serious STOL performance required, at a high density altitude to boot!

RC enthusiast.

You guessed it. It's for RC. I have seen a few planes make an approach but they always break off before they get too close.

Helicopters .

Y'all are thinking too narrowly when you speculate about the RC use of the strip. That's not what this thread is about!

tcj wrote:let your imagination run wild.

My imagination runs past RC and into something like this AW609 tilt rotor.

https://helicopters.leonardo.com/en/products/aw609

I mean, who builds a nuclear fallout shelter in a remote-ish location without a way to rapidly get to it?

Where is that located?

There is a lot there that you can't see in the photos. It sits on 200 acres. A 360 foot under ground eight foot diameter metal culvert tunnel runs from the house back to the sports emporium. It is 200 feet by 100 feet (20,000 square feet) with a 47 foot ceiling so that he could fly his RC airplanes and helicopters in there in bad.weather. He died unexpectedly in 2016. His two brothers inherited it. His sister in law posted this video of the fountain in his memory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-jEOx2VZ9Q

C180_guy wrote:Where is that located?

Seven miles west of Ellensburg WA.