Lot 4

A trail cut straight through the middle, running east to west, is where you start reading Tract 4 at Lohn Hollow Ranch. This is 16.7 acres of Central Texas ranch land for sale in McCulloch County, about 9 miles north of Brady, and that interior trail lets you walk the whole piece corner to corner on your first visit without fighting brush the entire way. The ground lies pretty flat overall, easy underfoot, the kind of grade that does not ask for much dirt work before you can use it. The brush has thinned out across much of the tract, sparse in places and thicker in others, just enough to give the land some privacy without penning you in. Where the cover holds, it holds well, and this ground has proven it: deer have been spotted bedding right here, which tells you more about a hunting tract than any map ever will.

The front of the property, up along the new caliche ranch road, carries a few live oaks worth having, the established kind that throw shade and mark where a person might set a camp or a homesite near the entrance. There are a fair number of dead oaks scattered through as well, standing timber that reads plainly as firewood for years of cool evenings on this ranch. The north side is fenced and backs up to a neighboring crop field, so you step in with one boundary already established and a clear edge to build your layout against. Between the fenced north line, the flat footing, and the trail through the center, a good deal of the groundwork is already behind you.

McCulloch County sits at the geographic center of Texas, along the western edge of the Hill Country transition zone, where productive native pasture gives way to brushier ground and the hardwood-lined hollows that gave the ranch its name. Lohn Hollow as a whole runs a strong population of native wildlife, with whitetail deer, Rio Grande turkey, dove, and quail moving between the open grass and the thicker cover, and this tract's mix of the two is exactly the habitat that keeps game on the property. Brady is a short drive south for fuel, feed, groceries, and the everyday errands, close enough for the running around that ranch ownership takes, far enough out that the quiet stays quiet. San Antonio and Austin are each within a reasonable Saturday drive, which makes this the kind of place a person can hunt through the fall, build on, retire to, or hold and hand down.

The tract is sold as a surveyed piece with deeded access off the new caliche ranch road, under the ranch's light restrictions that keep out commercial hunting while leaving you room to use your own land your way. Owner financing is available, which shortens the path to putting your name on a corner of the center of Texas. Buyers should confirm electric, well, septic, and access specifics as part of their own due diligence. Come walk the trail, read where the deer have been bedding, and decide what you would make of it.