Arizona’s largest private landholder is a 139-year-old ranch in the northern part of the state. Babbitt Ranches covers about 700,000 acres between Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon. The ranch was founded in 1886 by five brothers from Cincinnati and is still family-run. Today it raises grass-fed cattle and breeds horses, manages land for conservation, and offers trail access across parts of its private land. That 700,000 acres is not all deeded land. The ranch describes the total as private, federal and state land, and one estimate puts the acreage the family business actually owns at about 270,000. It still sits in a state where private land is rare. Arizona covers about 72 million acres, and according to the Arizona State Land Department only about 17.6% is private. Federal land makes up about 42%, tribal reservations about 28% and state trust land about 13%. Babbitt is also small next to the biggest landowners in the country. The 2026 Land Report 100 puts media and sports owner Stan...