Named Horse Whisperer Ranch, after Redford’s 1998 movie, the property is 16 miles from Sundance, Utah, where Redford ... Winderemere Real Estate A hay barn, a four-stall breezeway barn, covered ...

I have been warned. This much is clear within minutes of ducking out of a helicopter onto the high-desert oasis of Skinwalker Ranch in northeastern Utah one searingly bright October afternoon.

We were headed for the same destination, the only one for miles in any direction: Riverbed Ranch, a burgeoning off-grid community in the high desert of western Utah. Riverbed isn't a commune or a ...