WARBONNET
HOME & ACREAGE
BUFFALO, WY
$1,199,000 | 5± Acres
 
PRICE: $1,199,000
Status: Active for Sale
Shared in MLS: Yes
Listing ID: ######
Property Type: Elevated land, Grazing, Hunting, Residential
Listing Type: Exclusive Agency
Original Price: $1,199,000
Acres: 5.09+/-
Address: 14 Warbonnet Dr.
City, State: Banner, WY
County: Johnson
ZIP Code: 81252
Presented By: Mike Callan
Phone: (307) 217-6090
Email: Click to Contact
Total Tax: $3,077
Tax ID: R0005536
Land ID: Click to View
14 Warbonnet Drive pairs a custom-built, 4,376 square foot home with 5.09 acres on Sullivant Hill, one of the most storied pieces of ground along the Bighorn Mountains.
From the covered porch, the view runs across the Piney Creek Valley and up the east face of the Bighorn Mountains. Mature apple trees, lilacs and lilies surround the home, and wildlife moves through the property year-round.
The home was built in 1999 with poured concrete exterior and interior walls, a solid construction that's rarely found in this market. Five bedrooms, three baths and three finished levels give a family, or a steady rotation of guests, room to spread out. A separate guest cabin adds to that.
An adjoining 2.4 acres, in two separate parcels, is available for an additional $150,000, giving the next owner the option to hold roughly 7.5 acres in a single ownership.
Located in Banner, in northern Johnson County, the property sits about midway between Buffalo and Sheridan. It offers the quiet of the country with two of Wyoming's best small towns close at hand.
THE HOME
This is a home built to last. The exterior and interior walls are poured concrete, which makes the house quiet in a Wyoming wind, steady in temperature through every season, and efficient to heat and cool.
A standing seam metal roof, replaced in 2012, and Pella wood-interior, clad-exterior windows complete a shell designed for decades of low-maintenance ownership. Natural light reaches every level.
Main level. The heart of the home is a 24' x 32' great room for living and dining, with vaulted ceilings and chandelier lighting. Wide pass-throughs connect it to a large kitchen with custom cabinetry, stone countertops, and an informal eating area.
A sun-filled bedroom with a separate exterior door and a remote-start gas fireplace offers the opportunity to add on your dream bathroom suite. Two generous bedrooms, a fully tiled bath and a sitting area round out the floor.
Upper level. The primary suite has the top floor to itself, with a private bath and dressing area. A vaulted loft with oak railings looks down on the sitting room below.
Lower level. One more bedroom, a family room, music/recording room, a third bath, office, a mudroom, and locking storage. It works equally well as guest quarters, a home business base, or a place for gear after a day in the mountains.
Outdoor living. A 14' x 32' covered porch and wraparound deck take in the valley and the mountains. The space beneath the deck serves as covered storage or a carport.
Garage and guest cabin. An attached two-car garage has attic storage above. A separate guest cabin gives visitors their own space, or serves as a studio or office.
Systems and finishes
• Two furnaces. The main high-efficiency forced-air unit was replaced in 2024
• Central air conditioning and a heat pump
• Electric service, Propane, private well, and septic
• Bamboo and hardwood, ceramic tile, and carpet flooring
• Walk-in closets
THE LAND
The 5.09 acres are Lot 44 of Little Piney Estates, set on the crest of Sullivant Hill at roughly 4,870 feet. The elevation is what makes the property: the ground falls away toward the Piney Creek Valley, and the Bighorns fill the western skyline.
Years of care show in the grounds. Mature apple trees, lilacs, and lilies frame the home and give the place a settled, lived-in character that new construction takes a generation to earn.
The acreage provides real separation from the neighbors while keeping the benefits of an established subdivision with maintained road access. Horses are allowed, and there is room for a small barn, a garden, or simply open ground left for the deer. There is no homeowners association and no HOA dues, which is increasingly hard to find on small acreage along the Bighorns.
The property shares its southern fence with Fort Phil Kearny State Historic Site, which means the long view in that direction crosses protected state ground, not a future building site. That same ground is a Wyoming Game and Fish Hunter Management Area, giving an owner permission-slip hunting for deer, antelope, wild turkey, pheasant, and partridge right next door.
The Adjoining 2.4 Acres
An additional 2.4 acres, made up of two separate parcels adjoining the home, is offered at $150,000. Together, the two offerings total roughly 7.5 acres for $1,349,000.
For most buyers, this is the piece that protects the investment. Owning the neighboring ground means controlling the view, the privacy and what gets built next door, for good.
It also adds options:
- Pasture and turnout for horses
- A site for a shop, barn or equipment storage
- A buffer held as open space
- Two separate parcels to hold, or pass along to family, down the road
- Buyers of the home have the opportunity to secure it now. Ground like this, next to a home like this, seldom comes available a second time.
A HILL WITH A HISTORY
Few residential properties in Wyoming sit on ground this significant. Sullivant Hill is part of the ridge that rises between Big Piney and Little Piney Creeks, directly above the site of Fort Phil Kearny.
Colonel Henry Carrington established the fort in 1866 to guard the Bozeman Trail, and he named these hills for his wife Margaret's family, the Sullivants. The fort's wood road ran along the crest of the ridge to the timber near present-day Story, chosen because the high ground let soldiers see what was coming.
Long before the fort, this stretch of the Powder River Country was prized hunting ground for the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho. The Bozeman Trail cut straight through it, and the conflict that followed, Red Cloud's War, became one of the few in American history in which the government ultimately withdrew.
In December 1866, a decoy party that included a young Oglala named Crazy Horse drew Captain William Fetterman and his entire command into an ambush just north of the fort. The following August, soldiers and woodcutters held off a far larger force from behind a corral of wagon boxes near present-day Story. The Army abandoned the fort in 1868.
Today Fort Phil Kearny is a State Historic Site and a National Historic Landmark, and the Fetterman Monument and the Wagon Box Fight site are each only minutes from the front door. Owning here means living inside one of the defining stories of the American West, and carrying some responsibility for the ground that holds it.
RECREATION
The Bighorn Mountains are the backyard. More than a million acres of Bighorn National Forest, including the Cloud Peak Wilderness, begin a short drive west, with trailheads for hiking, horseback riding, snowmobiling and backcountry skiing.
Fishing. Piney Creek and its forks run cold and clear out of the mountains just below the property, and the high lakes and streams of the Bighorns hold trout all summer. Lake De Smet, minutes to the south, is one of the region's best for trout and walleye, with room to run a boat.
Hunting. The country around Banner holds mule deer, whitetail and antelope, along with good numbers of wild turkey, Hungarian partridge, sharp-tailed grouse and pheasant. Elk country in the Bighorns is a short drive west, and public land in the national forest and on nearby state parcels keeps a full fall calendar within easy reach.
 
SURROUNDING AREA & ATTRACTIONS
Buffalo, the Johnson County seat, and Sheridan are both a short drive away via Interstate 90, and each brings its own brand of small-town Wyoming character along with genuine amenities. Buffalo's historic downtown centers on the 1880 Occidental Hotel, a frontier-era landmark that once hosted Theodore Roosevelt, Buffalo Bill Cody, and Butch Cassidy, and the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum, an award-winning collection covering the area's Native American, cattle-war, and homesteading history. The town also has full medical care, grocery and hardware options, and easy access at the I-25/I-90 interchange. Sheridan, a bit farther north, offers a similarly rich Main Street, anchored by King's Saddlery and its free Don King Museum, and the century-old Mint Bar, along with Sheridan Memorial Hospital and a broader base of retail, dining, and professional services for anyone settling in the area full-time.
Sheridan County Airport offers scheduled commercial service to Denver, along with general aviation. Sheridan College, part of the Northern Wyoming Community College District, offers agriculture, nursing, dental hygiene, and trade programs in a town of this size. For winter recreation, Antelope Butte and Meadowlark Ski Lodge, the Bighorns' two local ski areas, are both a manageable drive up into the mountains. It's a setting that offers both quiet distance and genuine convenience, a balance that's harder to find than it sounds.
Just up the road, the community of Big Horn adds a different kind of amenity: a genuine polo tradition dating back more than a century. The Big Horn Equestrian Center and the neighboring Flying H Polo Club field host matches all summer long, from June through Labor Day, drawing players and spectators from around the world to watch the sport on the fields at the foot of the Bighorns. It's the kind of neighboring event that lends the whole area a bit of unexpected character.
Nearby
- Fort Phil Kearny, visible from the property, minutes away
- Fetterman Monument, marking the site of the 1866 Fetterman Fight
- Wagon Box Fight site, just north of the fort
- Powder River Country, historic homeland and hunting ground of the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho
- Bighorn National Forest, beginning just west of the parcel
- Buffalo: Occidental Hotel, Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum, full medical and shopping, I-25/I-90 access
- Sheridan: King's Saddlery and Don King Museum, Trail End State Historic Site, Sheridan Memorial Hospital
- Sheridan County Airport (commercial service to Denver) and Sheridan College (NWCCD)
- Antelope Butte and Meadowlark Ski Lodge, the Bighorns' two local ski areas
- Big Horn Equestrian Center and Flying H Polo Club, summer polo matches near Sheridan
 
THE OPPORTUNITY
14 Warbonnet Drive brings together three things that rarely share an address: a home built with uncommon care, acreage with a full view of the Bighorns, and a setting on some of the most historic ground in Wyoming.
At $1,199,000, with the option to add the adjoining 2.4 acres for $150,000, it suits a full-time resident, a family looking for a Wyoming base, or anyone who values land with a story behind it.
A property like this is best understood from the porch. If you would like to walk the ground and see the view for yourself, give me a call and I will meet you there.
Contact Mike Callan at Pathfinder Brokers. (307) 217-6090
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