Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn own several properties in California, Colorado and New York
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- Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn built a Colorado ranch in the 1980s to embrace a lifestyle outside of Hollywood
- The couple’s Colorado property, spanning 70 acres, includes two residences in Aspen and Old Snowmass
- Their son, Wyatt Russell, and his family moved nearby in 2025
Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn have long embraced a lifestyle outside the Hollywood norm, including choosing not to make Los Angeles their permanent home.
After living in the City of Angels for decades — he moved there as a toddler, and she relocated from the East Coast at 19, per The Wall Street Journal and Interview — the couple built a ranch in Colorado in the 1980s. It was there that they raised their blended family, which includes actors Oliver and Kate Hudson, from Hawn's relationship with Bill Hudson, and their son, Wyatt Russell.
“What I want to look at, what I want to be a part of — all the things that Colorado has to offer,” Russell told PEOPLE in May 2026. “I wasn't escaping. I was just living where I live."
So, why did Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn leave L.A.? Here's everything to know about their decision to purchase property in other states, including which home they've deemed their "favorite."
Russell grew up in L.A., and Hawn moved there in the 1960s
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Russell was born in Rangeley, Maine, where he spent his first few years living in a log cabin that his grandparents had built. After his father, a former minor league baseball player, was cast in a movie as an umpire, the family relocated to L.A. when the actor was 3 or 4 years old.
"Goldie and I share a passion for log homes," the Tombstone star told The Wall Street Journal in March 2026. "I never got that out of my system, starting with the one in Maine."
Hawn grew up in Takoma Park, Md., and moved to New York to pursue her career as a dancer. She moved to L.A. when she was 19 for a show, telling her daughter in Interview magazine in April 2017 that she thought it would be a brief part of her story.
"I had no idea where my life was going," the Private Benjamin actress explained. "I believed this was a short gig and that I would come home and marry a Jewish dentist and have a beautiful little house with a picket fence and raise children and have a dancing school."
They left L.A. in the 1980s
A few years after the couple started dating in 1983, while working on the movie Swing Shift, they built a ranch in Old Snowmass, Colo.
Russell told PEOPLE that he didn't "dislike L.A.," but just preferred a different lifestyle than what the city offered.
However, moving outside of Hollywood wasn't a popular choice at the time, and his peers in the industry warned him that it would negatively affect his career.
“I was fortunate that it really didn't make any difference," he told PEOPLE. "But when I did it, nobody else was doing that. I had many people tell me, ‘Well, that's goodbye. That's it.' I said, ‘Well, we'll see.' "
They chose Colorado because they loved the lifestyle
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Over time, the couple have expanded their real estate portfolio to include homes in L.A., New York and Palm Desert, Calif.
However, Russell admitted that their Colorado property — which includes two residences in Aspen and Old Snowmass, joined by 70 acres of land — was the "favorite" in his interview with The Wall Street Journal.
“I like to wake up in bed each morning looking at the mountain out back,” the actor added of the home. “I like to head down to the barn, saddle up a horse and ride. I also like zoning out in front of the living room fireplace.”
Russell later explained to PEOPLE that getting "into the ranching life" was a large part of the reason they relocated.
“It's very different from living in a city,” he said. “There are difficulties to it, but there are also great rewards to it. I'm just more comfortable there.”
Russell and Hawn's son decided to raise his family in Colorado
Though the slower-paced Colorado lifestyle is what drew Russell and Hawn to the Centennial State, the pair later gained another perk when their son relocated nearby.
Their daughter-in-law, Meredith Hagner, shared in a December 2025 Instagram post that they had "moved to a pocket of heaven in the mountains on the river" over the past year, which led to "so much family time."
In a March 2026 interview with Fox News, The Madison star shared that he and Hawn "like to spend as much time there as we can" now that their son and grandchildren are in Colorado.
"[Hawn] really likes it in Colorado," Russell added. "I'd like to be there more. And there's a different kind of life there. That's primarily it. I'd like to be able to spend as much time there as possible."
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