Ridgefield, Conn.
Two-time Olympic luge star Tucker West grew up shimmying down a 12-foot track in his backyard: the water slide that feeds right into his family’s stone-lined pool.
“The kids used it nonstop, literally nonstop,” Brett West, 53, says of Tucker, 24, and his sisters Tatum, 22, and Gracie, 18. “Up and down, up and down.”
But with the kids grown — and two other homes where they also spend time — the Wests have listed the spread at 390 West Mountain Road for $2.49 million with William Pitt Julia B Fee Sotheby’s International Realty. Beyond the pool and slide, there’s an outdoor movie screen (two other screens are inside), a pool house with a full kitchen, a grass tennis court and a main house with five bedrooms.
Brett and his wife Pam, 51, custom-built this outdoor oasis after buying the 3.27-acre property in Ridgefield, Conn., in 1999. The pool area has upper and lower decks, with the pool itself on the lower and a hot tub on the upper.
“I just wanted to take advantage of that — what a cool way to go from the hot tub to the pool,” says Brett. “I can only sit so long in a hot tub.”
As for the kids, it was simply fun to have. “There’s probably been 100-plus kids going down that slide over the years,” he adds.
Also included in the listing: a 400-foot luge track that Brett built for Tucker after he grew intrigued by the sport as a child during the Salt Lake City Olympics. (Tucker competed in the 2014 and 2018 Games.)
The outdoor luge track is “kind of like the [water slide], but it’s the wintertime version of it,” Brett quips.