Lot 5

What Tract 5 does best is give you room to spread out on easy ground. This is 20.84 acres of ranch land for sale at Elm Springs in Menard County, and it reads like a homestead site more than a hunting-only patch. The grass runs tall and gold across most of it, worked here and there with prickly pear in bloom, and the whole place rolls so gently (only about 21 ft of fall from one end to the other) that you can drive it, walk it, or set a slab on it without fighting the land. Come see it. There's a well on the property too, and you'll want to visit with us about its condition and what it'll take to put it back to work for you.

Big live oaks anchor the tract. They stand in dark, heavy motts along the edges, the kind of shade that holds through an August afternoon, and the grass runs right up under their skirts. Between those oak lines the country opens into clean, usable meadow. That's the balance a buyer remembers a week later: cover where you want it, open where you need it. Set a house under the oaks, look out across the grass, and you've got the best of both.

This is high, dry, working country on the northwestern shoulder of the Hill Country, and the ground under your boots shows it. Cedar and mixed brush thicken along the tree lines, native grasses carry the open ground, and yucca and pear tell you this is honest ranch land that has earned its keep. A power line crosses near the tract, which is worth seeing for yourself when you walk it and asking us about service. Restrictions here stay light, mostly aimed at keeping commercial operations out, so the valley holds the quiet it's always had.

You're in the San Saba valley, one of the oldest stretches of settled country in Texas. Spain raised a presidio on the river near Menard back in 1757, and the stone ruins still stand on the bank where you can walk them. Jim Bowie rode this valley in 1831 chasing the lost silver mine, and the town still throws Jim Bowie Days every June. That's the kind of place this is. Empty, lonesome, and full of story.

Every boundary here is surveyed, and the survey and title work govern the lines, so you'll know exactly what you own before you sign. Owner financing runs with as little as 5% down, which is how a lot of folks put a real piece of Menard County together without waiting on a bank. Walk it in the cool of a fall morning when the grass is still tall and the oaks throw long shade. We'll show you the well, walk the tree lines with you, and let you stand in the middle of it and picture the porch.