Lot 10

Tract 10 knows its job. Two pastures already divided by a cross fence, a dry creek bed carved into the western edge, and a two-track that fords that bed at the northwest corner: 45.76 acres on Alamo Ranch, ranch land for sale in Edwards County, Texas, that a person can start using the first weekend it's theirs. Turn a few head out on it. Sit the draw of an evening. Most of this tract you can drive in a pickup without picking a way through anything.

You'll remember the creek bed. It enters at the north end and holds the western edge the whole length of the tract, roughly 1,820 feet of it, cut into pale limestone that shows white where storm water has scoured the shelves clean. Rain hits this rock hard and drains fast. These draws are seasonal, so plan on a dry bed most of the year, and when you're out here we'll stand in it with you and you can judge what it does after a good rain. What the cut does hold is a travel lane. Game uses a trench like this, and the taller growth strung beside it throws real shade in July when nothing else does. A shorter draw feeds in at the northwest corner, and that's exactly where the ranch track fords the bed, so there's already a crossing between the two halves.

The cross fence angles from that same northwest corner to the southern line, nearly 1,790 feet of old ranch wire dividing the tract into two pastures of usable size. One to rest, one to graze. What's standing out there is standing, and we'd rather you look it over with us than assume anything about it. There's wire on the southern boundary as well, better than half that line. None of it settles where your corners fall, either, since the recorded survey and title govern the boundary, and we'll put you on the surveyed corners while you're here.

Most of this tract carries low scrub, sweeping from the northwest corner through the southern half in shin-high cedar, sotol, prickly pear and grass that goes gold by late summer. Trees run heavier from the western edge over to the southeast corner, live oak and cedar in mottes wide enough to park a truck under. The terrain lifts roughly 93 ft, from 2,073 ft at the low end to 2,166 ft at the high end, and it does that in long, patient swells rather than any hard climb. Nothing here fights a pickup. If the high end is where you'd want to sit a cabin someday, ask us about soil, septic and county requirements before you count on it.

Alamo Ranch takes in 4,683 acres of the Edwards Plateau, swelling rises and broad valleys with dry creek bottoms threading between them, and Tract 10 is a surveyed piece of that with deeded access. Highway 55 and County Road 310 bring you in, with Rocksprings sitting north up the pavement. Elk, turkey, dove and hogs all use this ranch, and free-ranging exotics have spread through this stretch of Texas for generations. Power poles stand by the county road and at points through the ranch, so ask us how a connection would be handled for this tract rather than assuming it. Ownership terms are straightforward: few rules, none of them fussy, and no outfitters selling paid access on the ranch. Owner financing is on the table, starting at 5% down.

Wear a hard-soled boot, because the limestone chews up anything soft. Early fall is the easiest stretch to see it, once the July heat lets go and the grass still holds color. We'll start you at the ford on the northwest corner, trace the creek bed the length of the western edge, cut back on the cross fence to the southern boundary, and finish on the high end while the day cools. Bring a hat and water.