Lot 88

Plain ground, honestly put. Tract 88 makes no promise of a hilltop, and it doesn't need to. Call it 72.85 acres of Hill Country ranch land for sale on Alamo Ranch in Edwards County, Texas, where a stone bluff stands above a sheltered pocket of pasture and a rocky wash cuts across the middle of it. What this place asks of an owner is simple: a gate, a set of ruts you keep mowed, and the patience to let country this quiet work on you. Grass, oak, juniper, white rock. That's the whole of it, and for the right buyer that is exactly the appeal.

The larger of the two drainages runs close to 1,760 ft, entering on the north side and leaving to the east. Dry gravel and limestone most days. It's a wet weather channel, which is how nearly all water behaves out on this plateau, and the smart way to judge it is to stand in it during a good soaking spell and watch. Wildlife use the cut regardless. Deer travel a drainage like that morning and evening because it's the easiest walking and the browse along its edges stays green longer than anywhere else on the tract. The second drainage, near 1,220 ft of it, works across the middle ground and drains the same way, so the low country here gets watered from two directions when the sky cooperates.

The open pasture is the reason to buy this one. Mowed lanes already loop across the flats, wide grass with prickly pear standing along the edges, and the ground is level and clear where a camper would sit square on a weekend. Anything more permanent is worth talking over with us and with the county. Above the pasture stands the bluff, a gray limestone ledge stacked in courses with oak and juniper growing straight out of the cracks. It breaks the wind. It also keeps you out of sight of anybody, which is the thing an owner notices second and appreciates most.

Ground climbs close to 200 ft across the tract, from around 2,000 ft down in the pasture up toward 2,197 ft on the timbered upper end. That's a genuine hill, not a swell, and it's a climb in boots rather than a stroll. Heavy juniper and oak carry the top end, the kind of cover that beds deer in the heat of the day. What you get up there isn't a look across three counties. It's the country itself, hills folded into one another every direction you turn, pale ledges breaking out where the rock goes bare, and not one thing in the frame that anybody built.

This is plateau country south of Rocksprings, reached off Highway 55 and County Road 310, close to town when you need feed or fuel and empty as anywhere in Texas the rest of the time. Whitetail run this ranch alongside axis, aoudad and elk. A tract shaped by two drainages and a bluff pulls that traffic across it steadily, and the mowed lanes give you a quiet way to move around without bumping every animal on the place.

The tract is surveyed and deeded, sold with light restrictions and no commercial hunting anywhere on the ranch, so nobody next to you will be running paid hunts. Electricity runs near the county road and at various locations across the ranch, and we'll walk you to the closest service so you can take the details up with the provider. Owner financing is available on this tract with as little as 5% down.

Come look in late October, when the heat has let go and the axis are moving. Bring boots with a stiff sole, since the rock out here chews up soft ones, and bring a hat. We'll take the ranch road in, walk the wash from the north side down to where it leaves east, then stand you in the pasture under that ledge and leave you alone a minute. Bring a chair if you like. Most folks stay longer than they planned.