Saguaro Ranch · Marana, Arizona
A private desert estate on 4.2 acres, built as the personal retreat of Saguaro Ranch's original developer.
Offered at $6,500,000
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Saguaro Ranch was planned around a simple idea: keep most of the desert as desert. About 80 percent of the community is permanently preserved, and you reach it through a tunnel in the mountain. Arriving feels like discovering a hidden national park.
This estate was the personal retreat of Saguaro Ranch's original developer. The current owners reimagined it from 2023 to 2026 with award-winning designs: a redesigned kitchen, new outdoor rooms, sound and grounds, all built around how the place is actually lived in.
Design awards
Designed with Lori Carroll & Associates.
The films
Floor plans
Sizes are approximate. Measured floor plan with square footage (PDF)
The spaces
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The great room
The great room sits under hand-carved beams imported from Argentina, with a floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace at one end and dining at the other. French doors along both walls open the room to the courtyard on one side and the terraces on the other.
Kitchen and wine cellar · Redesigned in 2023
The kitchen was redesigned in 2023 around a long stone island, a professional range under a steel hood, and a ribbon of windows facing the hills. Beside it, an entertaining nook sits against a wall of stacked stone, and the barrel-vaulted wine cellar is a few steps away.
The primary wing · about 2,202 square feet
The primary wing stands apart from the main house. The bedroom is wrapped in glass on two sides. Around it: two spa baths, two dressing rooms, a kitchenette with a fireplace, a sitting room, a study lined with shelves, and four terraces facing the sunrise.
Guest wing, casita and media room
In the main house, a separate guest wing holds two suites, each with its own living room and spa bath, and doors out to the desert. A detached casita adds a kitchenette and bath, and the media room opens through walls of glass to the back terrace.
Outside
Pool and waterfalls
A salt water pool and spa are built into native rock and saguaros, with two waterfalls and an outdoor shower. It is private and quiet out here: just you and the desert. Nearby, a coffee spot sits in a shaded garden.
Fire lounge, wine bar and outdoor cinema
Under a timber pavilion, built-in seating wraps a fire feature. Next to it, a bar with stools pours wine in the evenings and coffee at sunrise, facing the outdoor cinema and lounge, and the courtyards hold more seating under the trees.
The sky deck · third floor
About 900 square feet on the third floor, with a dining table, loungers and nothing above it but sky. The sun rises over the Catalina Mountains, sets over the Sonoran Desert, and then the dark desert night takes over. See tonight's sky from here.
Interactive 3D tour
Watch the floor plan draw itself and rise into the house, then step inside: every room, every terrace, up to the sky deck.
Reconstructed from the floor plans and listing photographs. Approximate.
From the sky deck
We've mapped the sky over the sky deck for every night of the year. Here is tonight's, in plain English: what you'll see, where to look and when.
Tonight from the deck
How to read the map. The circle is the whole sky above the deck, as if you were lying back and looking straight up. The middle is directly overhead and the edge is the horizon. North is at the top, and east is on the left because you are looking up, not down at a map. Drag the slider, or the map itself, to move through the night, and use the arrows to pick another night.
Calculated from the positions of the stars, planets and Moon for the house's exact location. It is not a weather forecast or a photograph: clouds and moonlight change what you can actually see.
The land
The lot, outlined from Pima County parcel records. Drag to turn the terrain.
The details
Information from the MLS, the sellers and the floor plans. Square footage and room sizes are approximate and should be verified.
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