Price cut: T. Boone Pickens’ 65,000-acre Texas ranch

Brokers selling T. Boone Pickens’ huge Texas Panhandle ranch have cut the price on the property.

But at $220 million, the 65,000-acre spread near Pampa is still one of the most elaborate ranches offered for sale in the U.S.

Pickens, who died in September at 91, put his Mesa Vista Ranch on the market in 2017 with a $250 million price tag.

Located 90 miles northeast of Amarillo, the 101-square-mile property includes broad mesas, lakes and rivers and a grand home and lodge on the Canadian River.

“There are many reasons why the time is right to sell the ranch now, not the least of them ensuring that what I truly believe is one of the most magnificent properties in the world winds up with an individual or entity that shares my conservation beliefs,” the Texas billionaire said when he decided to sell Mesa Vista.

T. Boone Pickens' Mesa Vista Ranch in the Panhandle of Texas has a guest lodge, family house... — T. Boone Pickens' Mesa Vista Ranch in the Panhandle of Texas has a guest lodge, family house and other buildings.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)

Pickens started acquiring the property in 1971 with a 2,926-acre purchase along the south side of the Canadian River in Roberts County.

He developed the ranch to entertain, with a tennis court, shooting range, small golf course, a 30-seat movie theater and a two-story pub.

There’s a separate lakeside chapel and a private “lake house” with 11,500 square feet of living area and 3,800 square feet of porches and patios.

Mesa Vista has its own lighted runway that can handle jet service.

“To our knowledge, no other ranch can replicate Boone’s Mesa Vista Ranch,” real estate broker Hall and Hall says in its pitch for the property. “He has spent nearly 50 years transforming this Texas Panhandle ranch into a wildlife paradise with spectacular water features and improvements fit for a king.”

Hall and Hall and Chas. S. Middleton and Son are marketing the ranch for the Pickens estate.

Mesa Vista Ranch