Lot 23

Some tracts sell themselves in the first hundred yards. Tract 23 takes a while longer. It's honest, wooded, rocky acreage that asks an owner to pick a spot, cut a little room, and build the thing they actually want, and for a certain buyer that patience is the whole appeal. 61.75 acres of Texas Hill Country ranch land for sale on Alamo Ranch in Edwards County, off Highway 55 and County Road 310. Bring boots and a chainsaw.

Two draws give the tract its shape. The larger one cuts the middle from east to west, some 1,730 ft of shallow seam through rock and leaf litter, dry most of the year and shaded when the rest of the acreage is baking under a July sun. The second drops in off the northern edge and bends out through the west line, another 1,150 ft of it. Those seams are the travel lanes on a piece this thick, and they're where I'd sit an evening. Neither one holds water for you day to day and I won't pretend otherwise. After a hard storm, though, you'll hear the middle draw before you see it.

Timber carries the greater part of this tract, live oak and cedar packed tight over pale limestone, dark and heavy at a distance and cooler than you'd expect once you're under it. The openings read as bright caliche and bare rock between the crowns. The land climbs roughly 105 ft end to end, from around 2,051 up to 2,156 ft, which is enough rise to feel in your legs and enough to let you choose between a shaded pocket in the trees and a higher bench that catches more air. Clear a half acre up on the rise and you have breeze and drainage. That's how these get built out here.

A hard caliche ranch road bends through the upper end, white as bone against the cedar, and it's the practical route in as well as the practical way to reach the far end without cutting fresh trail. How access reads is a matter for the deed and the recorded plat, and we'll go through that with you line by line before anything gets signed. Go see where the road ties in. It'll tell you more than an hour of talking.

The ranch around this tract rolls in long wooded ridges and wide dry valleys, and it stays quiet in a way that surprises people the first time they shut the truck door and stand still. Turkey scratch the open patches. Dove pass through in season, elk and hogs range the ranch, and this is famously good wildlife territory in a lonesome stretch of west Texas plateau. What you're buying is the raw material for a family camp, held together by two draws and a stand of oak and cedar.

Every tract on the ranch is surveyed and sold as its own parcel, with terms plain enough to read in one sitting. Owner financing is available with as low as 5% down, and the covenants are short and easy to live with, with paid guiding operations off the table so the neighbors stay quiet through the fall. Verify anything that matters to you (access, power, water, the covenants themselves) and we'll hand you the paperwork to do it. We'll meet you at the entrance. Pick a cool morning in October or February, and plan on following that middle draw on foot from the east line to the west before you decide.