The recent listing of Wyoming’s expansive Pathfinder Ranches drew a global spotlight for its size at more than 900,000 acres — four times New York City, bigger than Rhode Island and double Jacksonville, Florida.
Now there’s an even larger ranch for sale, and it’s also in Wyoming.
It’s a sheep ranch in southwest Wyoming that lies under the shadow of the Wind River Mountains, spanning parts of Sweetwater and Sublette counties.
Called the Midland Ranch, it totals 1.15 million acres, exceeding Pathfinder’s overall 916,076 acres, making it more than five times larger than the five boroughs of New York City. It’s also larger than the state of Delaware.
For both ranches, those totals include far more leased land than deeded. In the case of Midland, the deeded acres are 5,880 acres. The