This Off-Grid Earthship Was Built From 1,343 Tires
Bermed into the Laramie Peak foothills on 55 acres of Wyoming land, this home was built from 1,343 tires, following the official Earthship Biotecture design model. It's genuinely off-grid — solar, wind, its own water system — and Reddit spent a long thread trying to figure out exactly how that works day to day.
Self-Sufficient by Design
Power comes from a 2,180W solar array and a wind turbine, backed by a 2024 battery bank still under warranty and a diesel generator as a last resort. Water is collected from a 1,658-square-foot roof catchment into four cisterns holding roughly 6,800 gallons, with a permitted well as backup. Passive geothermal cooling and solar heating keep the interior between 62 and 82°F year-round without any fans. A 66-foot greenhouse corridor runs the full length of the south face, built to support year-round food production.
Handmade Details Throughout
Inside the 1,500-square-foot home, hand-troweled plaster walls, peeled log vigas, bottle-glass accents, and custom pine cabinetry with diamond inlays give the place real craftsmanship, right down to a 73-inch clawfoot soaking tub with an air massage system. It sits in a covenant-protected subdivision with no HOA dues, bordering roughly 280 acres of BLM land and nearly 636 acres of Wyoming State Land, and it's under 30 minutes from downtown Wheatland.
The Internet Has Thoughts
Naturally, this listing caught the attention of Reddit's r/zillowgonewild community, who got deep into the practical details: maintenance costs are mostly labor rather than materials, water catchment systems like this one are reportedly shockingly effective even in drier climates, and a long-running debate about whether the tires off-gas anything harmful was mostly settled by commenters pointing out there's no solid evidence for that concern after years of research. One person who's actually toured an Earthship explained how the north-facing vents work for passive cooling — pulling cooler air through earth-cooled tubes while hot air escapes through the roof. See what people are saying about it here.
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