Lot 6

Some ground asks you to meet it on its own terms, and this tract does. Limestone sits close under your boots, the brush runs low and gray-green, and at midday in August the light comes straight down with nothing out there to soften it. Nobody has dressed this place up. It's 14.5 acres, Tract 6, plain and surveyed and honest about exactly what it is, and if you've been hunting ranch land for sale in Val Verde County that doesn't pretend to be a park, High Bridge Ranch is worth the drive out past Del Rio into the Lake Amistad and Pecos River corner of far West Texas.

The north end is what you'll remember a week later. The ground runs out flat and rocky and then quits, breaking off in pale ledges, and Amistad lies below and off to the north, something like 192 ft down from where you're standing and only about 60 ft off the line. Green cane and brush crowd the bottom, bright against all that white rock. This is bluff-top country, an overlook and nothing else, so plan on looking at that water rather than walking down to it. Stand up there in the evening with a cup of coffee and you'll understand why people drive this far.

The tract itself climbs about 80 ft, roughly 1,294 up to 1,374, so you've got choices about where you'd set a camp or a small house and how you'd point it. Higher ground sits back away from the rim. Cover is desert country cover: knee-high brush in clumps, prickly pear, a scrubby mesquite here and there where a little moisture collects, and long shelves of gray caprock stepping down toward the break. The grass comes and goes with the rain, the way it always has out here. Nothing on this place needs clearing before you can use it, which is a good part of why simple ground appeals to the people who buy it.

About 350 ft of dirt ranch road already runs across the middle of the tract, packed and pale, and that matters more than it sounds. You can drive on and unload the first day. A pipeline easement crosses the middle of the tract as well, common through this country, shown on the survey and set out in the title work.

An old block building stands off toward the road in this part of the ranch, and there are poles through the country out here. What conveys with a tract and what a person can do about electric service are two separate questions, and we'll give you straight answers on both plus the co-op's number.

The corners are surveyed, so there is no guesswork about your lines, and access is deeded on the ranch roads. Restrictions are light, the terms are simple, and owner financing starts with as little as 5% down. Ask us about how the county looks at valuation out here and we'll tell you what we know.

Come in the cool months if you can, October through March, when you can cover the whole 14.5 acres on foot without hurrying. Wear a hard-soled boot, the rock chews up soft ones. Bring binoculars for the water and the far canyon rim. We'll walk the north edge with you, show you the road on the ground, and put the survey and the title work in your hands so you can read them yourself.