Lot 86

The land here climbs 234 ft, from roughly 1,975 ft at the low end to 2,209 ft at the top. That is serious relief on 63.36 acres. Tract 86 on Alamo Ranch is ranch land for sale in Edwards County, a short drive out of Rocksprings on County Road 310, and the first thing you'll notice is how much the terrain changes on you between one end and the other. You feel it in your legs before you ever see it on paper.

The main drainage enters at the northeast corner and cuts a long, steady line to the west boundary, better than 2,400 ft of creek bed, which is close to half a mile of bottom inside your own lines. It carries water after a rain and lies dry between, the way these creeks behave out here, and we'll take you to the bed so you can read the gravel and the cut banks for yourself. Bottoms like that hold moisture longest. The trees tend to be bigger in there, the shade is deeper on an August afternoon, and game crossing the ranch will nearly always follow the low line rather than climb over the top.

A second, shorter drain feeds in at the northwest corner, only 100 ft or so of it inside the tract. Small thing, but it tells you which way the water wants to go, and it makes that corner the greenest pocket on the tract in the days after a storm.

The high end sits at 2,209 ft, and that is where you'd stand to size the whole tract up, watching the land fall away into the drainage below you. There is higher terrain elsewhere in this part of the county, so what the horizon does from up there is something you'll judge with your own eyes. We won't sell you a view you haven't stood in. Climb it on a clear morning, take your time at the top, and then decide what you think of it.

There is fence the full length of the west boundary, roughly 8% of the perimeter in all. The recorded survey and the title governs where your lines actually fall, and we'll pull the plat and step the corners with you before you sign anything, but that wire hands you a starting edge on the west and saves you the first stretch of building.

This is Edwards Plateau ranching land, limestone under a thin skin of soil, swells and wide valleys and dry creek bottoms. Elk, turkey and dove cross the ranch, plus hogs and the free-ranging exotics this region is known for. Power reaches the county road and other points on Alamo Ranch, and the co-op can tell you what a hookup to your chosen spot would take. The covenants are short and easy to live with, outfitting for pay isn't part of the deal here, and that keeps the whole 4,683 acres quiet in a way you notice at dusk.

Wear a boot with a stiff sole, because the rock will chew through a soft one in an afternoon. Late fall is the best season to see this one, when the leaves are off and you can trace the drainage from the northeast corner clear to the west fence without losing it. Owner financing is available on every tract here, starting at 5% down, and we'll go through the terms in plain language at the table. Call us and we'll meet you at the gate.