Lot 22

County Road 310 gives up its pavement and turns to caliche, and the last stretch before Tract 22 is the best part of the drive. Pale rock, dark cedar, a road that doubles back on itself twice before it settles. This is 58.52 acres of ranch land for sale on Alamo Ranch in Edwards County, Texas, and you meet the north end of the tract right where that caliche swings hard and then straightens out again. Slow up there. In July the glare off the roadbed is something, and the timber on the far rises reads almost black against it.

That graded caliche is what makes the north end useful. You can pull a gooseneck in on it without praying over the ruts, and a drive leaving the roadbed has short, sensible options into the tract instead of a quarter mile of fresh cutting through cedar. That's real money saved. Exactly where your access sits is spelled out in the deed and on the recorded plat, and we'll sit with you and go over both of them before you ever sign a thing. Power reaches the county road and several points on the ranch, so ask us what it would take to get it to this tract and we'll tell you straight.

The feature you'll still be thinking about a week later is the draw. It enters at the northeast corner and traces roughly 1,630 ft through the tract before it leaves on the west line, and after a hard rain you'll hear it before you see it. Water in this part of the world is seasonal, so nobody should plan around it standing. What the draw does count for is the way everything gathers to it: the bottom holds moisture longer than the rock above it, the canopy thickens through there, and trails feed into it from both directions. Stand in it at dusk sometime.

From that bottom the land climbs. There's 117 ft of relief here, from roughly 2,091 ft at the low end to 2,208 ft at the top, which is enough to change what's in front of you every few hundred yards. The upper benches open in patches, white caliche showing between the cedar and scrub oak, with grass in the swales that goes gold by midsummer. Those openings are the spots most buyers picture for a cabin site, and they're worth checking against the covenants and the county before you settle on one. Whether the high end opens up a long look is something to judge with your own eyes, since neighboring terrain rises too, and we'll take you to the top and let you decide.

Alamo Ranch takes in 4,683 acres of this rough, rolling Texas Hill Country just off County Road 310, and the game travels it without much regard for survey lines. Elk, turkey, dove and hogs all use this stretch. It's lonesome out here. Mornings are quiet enough that a truck registers from a long way off, and the sky after dark is reason enough on its own to own acreage this far out.

The tract is surveyed with its own boundary, the covenants are brief and unfussy, and paid outfitting operations aren't permitted anywhere on the ranch, which keeps things peaceable in season. We carry the financing ourselves, with entry as low as 5% up front, so a buyer isn't sitting on a bank's timeline. February is the honest month to see it, when the oaks are bare and you can read the draw and the benches without guessing. Wear boots with a stiff sole; the caliche chews through soft ones. Call us and we'll meet you at the turn, drive the north end, then cross the bottom on foot and follow it out to the west line.