Extreme Real Estate: Sporty Mansions

Johnson City, Tenn.

Crantzdorf Estate, a private castle in the mountains of East Tennessee, was built for the businessman Steve Grindstaff. It took more than 10 years to replicate the European-castle style, which includes imported antiques from actual European castles. The house is listed for a reduced $19,500,000 and has plenty to keep the sporty king or queen of this castle entertained.

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Johnson City, Tenn.

The more than 20,000-square-foot home has nine bedrooms and 10 full bathrooms. It also has an indoor basketball court.

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Johnson City, Tenn.

The sprawling 13-acre property on Boone Lake also has a scale replica of the NASCAR track at Bristol. The actual track is a mere 15 minutes up the highway if you care to make a comparison.

The replica track features the same 38-degree banked turns as the original, just smaller around. It also comes equipped with four (very fast) replica Formula One cars -- each costing more than $50,000.

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Johnson City, Tenn.

For more relaxing sports, the castle has a billiards room. (After your exertions playing pool, you can relax in the home theater with raked seating and classic velvet curtains.)

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Johnson City, Tenn.

A few laps in the outdoor pool will also get your blood pumping.

Fun fact: The home was rebuilt after a January 2009 fire caused by a lightning storm. Twenty-five firefighters responded to the scene and took more than two hours to put out the blaze. Don’t worry, no one was hurt.

For information, contact Lux Mountain Real Estate (276-623-1747) or visit the website.

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Los Angeles, Calif.

“The Manor” in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles is a 123-room (including 14 bedrooms and 27 bathrooms) French chateau-style mansion built for Aaron Spelling and his wife, Candy, in 1988. It is still the largest home in LA. Spelling died there in 2006 at age 83.

Within its 56,500 square feet and 4.6 acres are a fully equipped gym, two-lane bowling alley, billiards room and a separate game room. There is also a gift-wrapping room, five kitchens, a beauty salon and dog-grooming area. Outside there is a tennis court and pool. It is listed for $150,000,000.

For information, contact Jeff Hyland (310-278-3311) or visit the website.

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Chappaqua, N.Y.

Listed for $27,500,000 is this 20,000-square-foot home built in the Georgian-manor style and set on 86 acres with hiking trails that might require a map and compass to find your way back.

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Chappaqua, N.Y.

If you enjoy a game of hoops, there is an indoor basketball court. You can relax after your sweat by practicing trick shots in the billiards room, reading a book in the two-story mahogany library or warming up in front of one of the eight fireplaces.

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Chappaqua, N.Y.

When the weather is nice, why not some tennis? Night games on the lighted courts is an option for people busy at work during the day.

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Chappaqua, N.Y.

Wind down from it all with a swim in the infinity pool, or a dip in the spa.

For information, contact Stacy Levey (914-238-4766 ext. 314) or visit the website.

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Milbrook, N.Y.

The Sky Blue Farm, a 145-acre estate in one of the wealthiest towns in New York, is listed for $27,000,000. It comes complete with a wide variety of recreational facilities for the sporting type who never wants to run out of things to do.

For the equestrian, there are pro facilities that include an 18-stall barn, two tack rooms and a 20,000-square-foot indoor ring with observation deck, automatic windows and an audio and video system. There are also two outdoor rings – sand and grass.

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Milbrook, N.Y.

There is an outdoor lighted skating rink equipped with a separate chiller to keep the ice icy and – wait for it –  a Zamboni! Play hockey, do some triple axels or just glide around, and when it’s time to take a break, there’s a cozy viewing shed with a fireplace to get warm.

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Milbrook, N.Y.

Of course, there is a beautiful outdoor pool if you need to get a few laps in, as well as an indoor spa and fully equipped gym. The main house has 13 bedrooms and 19 bathrooms.

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Milbrook, N.Y.

There is also a motocross track designed by an X-Games designer on the property along with a lighted tennis court pavilion with a refrigerator and equipment room adjoining outdoor viewing area. The outdoor sporting fields also include a fully remote-operated professional skeet shooting range with sporting clays and tower shoots, along with a viewing deck and equipment storage space.

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Milbrook, N.Y.

There is also a 3,200-square-foot guest house, a carriage barn, caretaker’s house and equipment sheds. In a finished old wooden barn is a private movie theatre with stadium seating, a wet bar and a theater-style snack counter for the total multiplex experience.

For information, contact Adam Hade (914-764-5762, ext. 375) or visit the website.Photo Credit: Houlihan Lawrence/Bedford Village Green

Telluride, Colo.

In the upscale resort town of Telluride is a very upscale home with plenty of sporty diversions to keep the most intense athlete from getting bored. The stone and log chalet has 23,000 square feet of living space with seven bedrooms and eight full bathrooms.

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Telluride, Colo.

There is also a 75-foot indoor pool on the grounds alongside an AMF bowling alley. Of course, there is a gym, billiards room and home theater as well.

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Telluride, Colo.

For target practice, there is a two-lane indoor commercial shooting range.

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Telluride, Colo.

Outside is a golf fairway and a putting green with a bunker. After a relaxing round of golf (nobody waiting to tee off behind you, for one thing), you can relax with the rest of your foursome and three friends in the gazebo's hot tub with nearby wet bar.

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Telluride, Co.

For maze enthusiasts, there is a replica of the labyrinth at Chartres, France, to wander around. You can also stroll through the extensive landscaping, complete with waterfall and exotic statues.

For information, contact Matthew Hintermeister (970-729-1200) or visit the website.

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Highland Park, Ill.

This 11,000-square-foot home in the swanky suburb of Chicago has such rustic features as a log and twig staircase, scrapped hickory hardwood floors and vaulted ceilings with exposed beams. It has six bedrooms and seven bathrooms and is listed for $1,950,000.

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Highland Park, Ill.

The real treat of this place, though, is the indoor hockey rink. Need we say more?

For information, contact Margie Brooks (847-494-7998) or visit the website.Photo Credit: Baird & Warner

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