Lot 15

Almost every acre of Tract 15 wears timber, and that is the honest strength of it. Cedar and live oak, thick and shading, over 60.24 acres of ranch land for sale on Alamo Ranch in Edwards County, Texas, out where Highway 55 hands off to County Road 310. Buy this one for seclusion and for game. Shade, browse, bedding, a seasonal draw threading the whole of it and a rise at one end to sit above all of that: what this tract does best is hide you and hold wildlife, and anybody shopping for bald pasture ought to keep driving.

The draw is the spine. It enters at the northwest corner and cuts roughly 1,610 ft through the middle before it leaves at the east line, and the timber crowds it tight the entire way. It carries water when the plateau gets a good rain and sits dry between, the way these draws do out here, so plan around it rather than on it. What matters more is the lane it makes. Game will follow shaded, low footing before it will cross open rock in July, and that bottom is the coolest, quietest travel route on the tract. We will follow it with you from the northwest corner clear over to the east line, and you can read the tracks in the caliche yourself.

The terrain climbs 154 ft over this tract, roughly 2,007 ft at the low end to 2,161 ft up on the high end. On 60 acres, that is real relief. The high end is where a person would open a small clearing and look out over their own timber, up out of the bottom where the cold settles on a January morning, and it is also where the breeze finds you on a still summer afternoon. What it would take to put anything up there, septic, a well, power to the pole, is worth confirming with us and with the county before you plan too far. Rock is not far under the soil in this part of the plateau. Bring that up when you call and we will tell you plainly what we know.

Alamo Ranch is 4,683 acres in total, and the feel of it is lonesome in the best way. Elk, turkey, dove and hogs all pass through this ranch, along with the game this stretch of Texas is known for, and a heavily timbered tract like this one is exactly the kind of holding they use during daylight. Sound carries a long way out here. Most evenings the loudest thing is wind in the cedar.

On the practical end, the tract is surveyed, and the plat and deed govern where the corners fall and how you get in, which is a conversation we would rather have with paper in front of us than in a paragraph. There is fence the full length of the west line and roughly two thirds of the north, and where it ties in, where the wire is tight and where it wants stretching, is easy to see once you are out there. The caliche ranch road swings through this part of the ranch and holds up to a truck in wet weather. Power reaches the county road and other points on the ranch. Ask us where the nearest pole stands.

• Roughly 1,610 ft of seasonal draw, northwest corner to the east line
• 154 ft of elevation change, roughly 2,007 to 2,161 ft
• Nearly the entire tract in cedar and oak timber
• Fence the length of the west line and much of the north
• Owner financing available with as little as 5% at signing

The rules on this ranch are short and written to keep it feeling like a ranch: no outfitting operations, and neighbors who leave each other alone. Owner financing is available on every tract here, starting at 5% at signing, and we handle it in house without a bank in the middle. Wear boots with a stiff sole, because the rock will chew soft ones, and pick a cool morning in October or a day after a wet spell in spring. We will start you at the northwest corner, take the draw through to the east line, then climb to the high end so you can stand up there and see the whole 60 acres of it before you decide anything.