Lot 77

Shade is the first thing you notice. Every acre of Tract 77 carries timber, live oak mottes and cedar knitted together over pale limestone, and that is what these 96.83 acres of ranch land for sale at Alamo Ranch in Edwards County, Texas, do best. Shelter. If what you want is a wooded retreat where a cabin can sit out of sight of the road and game has somewhere to bed through the worst of a July afternoon, this tract is exactly that, and it doesn't pretend to be anything else.

The land climbs roughly 130 ft from one end to the other, from around 2,087 ft up to 2,217 ft at the high point, and it does it in long easy grades rather than one hard pitch. That rise matters for where you set a cabin. Build on the upper end and you'll catch whatever breeze the plateau sends through the oaks in August, with the canopy breaking the sun before it ever reaches your porch. The rock underneath is honest limestone, pale and broken in spots, firm under a truck tire and quick to drain after a storm. Bring stiff-soled boots.

Roughly 410 ft of dirt ranch road already exists on the tract in the southeast quarter. That spares you the first chore most buyers face out here, which is cutting a way in through standing timber before you can do a single other thing. Use it as your spine. A few short trails cleared off it would open the interior without much dozer time at all, and the caliche roads threading the larger ranch hold up well after a rain. How the deed and plat handle your way in is something we'll sit and go over with you, line by line, before you sign a thing.

This is Edwards Plateau land at its most typical and its most useful. Elk, turkey and dove pass through Alamo Ranch, and a tract timbered wall to wall is where animals drift when the open valleys bake at midday. The quiet out here is the real article. Wind in the cedar, a dove somewhere off in the oaks, and long stretches of nothing at all.

Fence stands the southern and eastern edges, most of the way on both, which is a head start if you ever want to hold stock or simply keep the boundary honest, though the recorded survey is what governs where your lines actually fall. Tract 77 is surveyed and sold as its own tract. Power reaches the ranch at the county road and at points within it, and we can show you where the lines sit relative to this piece so you can price a hookup with the co-op yourself. The rules on the ranch are few and plainly written, meant to protect the quiet rather than dictate what you build, and we'll hand you the whole document to read at your own pace. Owner financing is offered on every tract here, and it can start with a payment up front as small as 5 percent.

See it on a cool morning in late fall or early spring, when the oaks hold their color and the rock isn't throwing heat back at you. Wear something you don't mind snagging on cedar. We'll take the ranch roads in, park at the existing trail in the southeast quarter, and cut through the timber on foot to the high end so you can stand where a cabin would sit and hear how still it gets. Call the office and we'll set a time.