We’ve Found The Country’s Most Amazing Hot Tub and It’s In New Mexico

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Imagine lounging in deliciously warm, bubbling water under a clear blue sky, sipping an adult beverage, inhaling crisp and clean mountain air, and gazing down a 600-foot red rock canyon to a river gorge below.

Dream no longer! We’ve located the world’s most scenic hot tub, and it’s in a remote corner of New Mexico. The dreamy tub, including its 10,090-acre river ranch with two custom homes, can be yours for $7.25 million.

From the hot tub perched on the edge of Alamita Canyon, you can see the snowcapped Rocky Mountains, red bluff mesas, and a branch of the winding Canadian River below. The Kiowa National Grassland stretches for miles in every direction, and the river functions as a wildlife corridor, so you’ll see deer, elk, and antelope as well. It’s the perfect antidote to a rough day.

The one-of-a-kind hot tub is accessed by a series of flagstone steps leading from the property’s Canyon House, a 3,800-square-foot Mediterranean-style hacienda with three bedrooms and four bathrooms. The hot tub and the house may be the jewels of the property, but they’re just a tiny slice of the land in question. Dubbed Alamita Canyon Ranch, the property spans the Canadian River for almost 6 miles.

Views for miles

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The ranch includes productive pastures, stacked stone ruins, and caves. There’s also a 2,000-square-foot River House with three bedrooms and two baths, with a nearby shop, storage barn, and working pens. You’ll also find stables, a riding arena, meadows, and barns—everything you’d need to raise a herd of cattle, or simply revel in the solitude with nothing but Western flora and fauna for miles around.

Canyon House at Alamita Canyon Ranch

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Of course, a place this dreamy is remote—it’s the price a multimillionaire buyer will have to pay to soak in the world’s coolest tub. The property’s a scenic two-hour drive from Santa Fe, but only about 30 minutes less from the private airstrip in Raton, NM, which is frequented by media bigwigs, including Liberty Media’s John Malone and CNN founder Ted Turner.

Hot tub is perched on the edge of a red rock mesa in New Mexico.

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Canadian River Gorge, part of the Alamita Canyon Ranch

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So what is it about this remote ranch (in addition to the hot tub, obvs) that has cattle ranchers, wealth managers, billionaires, and recreational hunters circling like buzzards with their wallets ajar?

It’s the price, according to listing agent Greg Walker of Walker & Martin Ranch Sales, who deals mostly in river ranches from Santa Fe to Denver.

“The price per acre is still affordable,” he says, comparing it to Texas, Colorado, and Montana, where ranch prices are soaring like eagles.

Walker says the homeowner, who was from Northern California, bought and developed the property to its current state about 17 years ago. He loved it so much he made it his home base, Walker adds. Now, with his children gone and raising families of their own, it’s time for the homeowner to reluctantly say adios to his huge and beloved ranch.

It’s likely that some buyer will come for the hot tub, and stay for the stunning natural beauty of the place. It’s nice to know unspoiled beauty like this still exists, and that you can survey it all from one jaw-dropping hot tub.

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