Courtesy of Summit Sotheby's International Realty
The estate on River View Ranch.
- The newest luxury ranch on the market is River View Ranch, a massive $45 million property in northern Utah spanning 200,683 acres and with a mansion once owned by the Mrs. Fields Cookies founder.
- The ranch's main estate (a 17,000-square-foot European-style manor designed by Debbi Fields herself) is roughly 30 minutes outside of Park City, Utah. Beyond the mansion, the property (expanded by the current owner) spans four counties.
- The hefty asking price includes the furnished estate, multiple other homes on the land, cattle, ranch equipment and machinery, grazing permits, water rights to a nearby private river, elk hunting rights, and mineral rights.
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Debbi Fields started selling homemade cookies in Palo Alto, California, in 1977. It wasn't long before her name became synonymous with warm, fresh chocolate chip cookies - and it certainly paid off for her.
By 1983, the cookie magnate was building and designing her own dream estate on a private bluff just outside of Park City, Utah. Now, the 10-bedroom, 14-bathroom mansion and the sprawling property beyond it are up for sale.
Once Fields' cookie chain filed for bankruptcy in 2008, the estate went into foreclosure, according to Mansion Global. "Eleven different banks had a piece of it," Jeanette Brooks, the co-founder of the company behind Xocai chocolate, told Mansion Global. "We bought it 'as is' at auction for I think $1.7 million."
Brooks spent years and millions of dollars renovating and restoring the dilapidated home. She also bought up tens of thousands of acres to run a fully functional cattle ranch. The renovated Fields estate is the focal point of the property, but that's only a fraction of the listing.
Keep reading for a closer look at the property and all it includes.