08/05/2026
Here's an odd fact about human decision-making: we'll happily pay a premium for a hotel with a good gym we'll use twice, but we treat "the property already has an indoor arena, five stalls and a cutting pen" as a mere bullet point. This seems backwards.
Near the end of a quiet dead-end road outside Millarville sits 28.6 acres where somebody already fought and won every argument you'd otherwise have with yourself over the next five years. Build the arena or wait? Already built. Get the shop heated or just deal with the cold? Already heated, four-car attached, big enough for trucks and trailers. Five stalls or six? Five, plus a run-in shelter with hay storage, plus a dedicated cutting pen, because whoever designed this clearly wasn't guessing at what they'd eventually need.
The house doesn't play a supporting role here, which is unusual for equestrian properties — it's the main event too. Over 4,400 square feet above grade, four bedrooms, six bathrooms, a bonus room upstairs so large its function is basically "whatever you decide it is." In-floor heating on the lower level, three furnaces, three air conditioners — this is a home built by someone who had strong opinions about never being uncomfortable, in any room, in any season.
There's a particular kind of luxury that isn't about marble or square footage it's the luxury of infrastructure. Double-fenced and cross-fenced. Three spring-fed water troughs, two running year-round. A seasonal creek that exists purely because the Foothills decided to be generous. None of this shows up in a listing photo, and all of it is the actual reason a property like this rarely comes to market.
At $2,674,900, you're not buying a house with acreage attached. You're buying the years someone else already spent solving the problems you'd otherwise still be solving.
📍 274136 272 Street W, Millarville — 28.6 acres, indoor riding arena, 5-stall barn, cutting pen, custom home.
📞 Call Diane Richardson: 403-397-3706
