Lot 17

Come in off Ranch Road 479 near I-10, and the asphalt inside High Ten Ranch does the work for you, no washboard, no ruts after a wet week, right up to the south end of Tract 17. The last stretch is oak and grass on both sides. Then the caliche shows. What you're looking at here is 10.014 acres of ranch land for sale in Kerr County, Texas, and the way in is a worn dirt ranch road that leaves the asphalt at the southeast corner and runs the length of the south end to the southwest corner.

That's about 460 ft of packed surface, and on a wooded tract it's worth real money. You can back a trailer onto it the first weekend you own it. Tuck a camper under the oaks. Haul in posts, gravel, a water tank, whatever the plan calls for, without paying a dozer man to cut a fresh trail before you can even park. How access reads on paper is a matter for the recorded plat and your deed, and we'll sit with you and go over every line of it before you sign anything.

The cover runs thick in stretches and open in others. Oaks carry most of the canopy, dark and low and wind-shaped, standing in mottes with pale caliche clearings scattered between them where the grass thins to bare rock. Those openings are the thing you'll remember. Start a clearing in one and half the labor is done for you, since you'd be trimming edges instead of knocking over timber. In other spots the brush stands tight enough that you'd earn every foot, and plenty of owners leave that part exactly as it is and call it cover for the game.

About 28 ft of fall crosses the tract, gentle enough that a truck never notices and enough to shape the surface all the same. You feel that roll more than you see it. Rain sheds off the rises and the openings drain. Late in the day the light sits different on the low side than it does up top, and if you're choosing where to set a cabin, that difference is worth being out there at six o'clock to judge for yourself.

Fence stands along the north side, the full length of it. That's one edge you won't be starting from scratch on if you decide to enclose all ten acres. Where your lines actually fall is a question for the survey, and we'll put the plat in front of you and point out the corners so you know what you're pricing when you call a fence crew. Bring a tape if you like.

High Ten covers 259 acres on the Edwards Plateau, cut into surveyed tracts, oak mottes and open grass trading off one after another. Power has been run out along the ranch roads to the tracts. Ask us where the nearest service sits in relation to 17 and what a hookup would involve, and you'll get a straight answer rather than a guess. Town lies close on either side of the ranch for supplies and a tank of gas.

Game works this part of the ranch, native and exotic both, and the oak edges and caliche openings on 17 are the sort of cover animals travel at first and last light. Birds use the clearings. Restrictions across High Ten are light, and rather than summarize them for you we'll hand you a copy to read yourself. The financing we carry in house, with as little as 5% up front to open a file, and the rest of the terms printed beside this listing.

Come look at it in the cool part of the year. Wear a stiff-soled boot, because the caliche is sharp where the grass quits, and bring a hat for that midday sun on the open patches. We'll start at the southeast corner, follow the dirt road across the south end, then cut north into the oaks and find the spot where the roll and the shade line up. Half a day is plenty.