Lot 1

Head south out of Rocksprings on Hwy 55, turn onto County Road 310, and the pavement quits on you. Caliche takes over. The brush closes in pale and green on both hands, the road bends east, and the ranch entrance shows up at the far northeast corner under a bump gate. Lot 1 sits right there, 69.67 acres of ranch land for sale at the front of the Lone Star Ranch in Edwards County, the first tract you touch coming in and the easiest one on the ranch to find a second time.

Caliche holds the eastern and southern edges of this tract, firm enough for a truck and a trailer after a wet week. That matters when you're picking where the drive comes in: you aren't pushing a half mile of brush to reach a building spot, you're cutting a short entry off a lane that's already graded and crowned. Access terms are in the deed and plat. We'll read them with you.

Four draws cut the interior. The longest threads some 1,190 ft toward the middle, a second carries near 890 ft from the center down to the southwest corner, and two shorter ones, 460 ft on the southern end and 270 ft more in the middle, feed the same low lines. They'll carry water after a storm comes off the plateau and lie dry between rains, the way this part of the Texas Hill Country has always drained, and what it leaves you is a web of brushy low lanes where deer slip along at dusk and elk cross when they're moving. A ford on the southern end is where a track drops into the creek bed and climbs back out. That's your crossing. Use it.

From the low end to the top you pick up 72 ft, 2,226 ft to 2,298 ft, and it comes as long swells rather than steep pitches. The northwest corner is the thick end, juniper grown close enough that you'll hear a deer before you ever see one. Move east and it thins. The eastern half lies grassier, live oak motts spaced over caliche with daylight on the grass between them, and that half is where a cabin pad or a set of pens would cost you the least clearing.

Somebody got started here before you. A trail at the southwest corner leads to a cleared pad, level and ready, that looks cut for a campsite and never finished. Haul in a trailer and you have a weekend camp before you ever hire a dozer. The northern end carries 1,140 ft of dirt ranch road, and a trail off the northeast corner wraps the north line and feeds into the center, so you can reach most of the interior by UTV the first day you own it.

Fence follows the full north line and a bit better than half the east. The recorded survey, not the wire, governs where your corners fall, and we'll point out the pins and the notch in the north line when we're out there together. That notch is there because a landing strip lies beyond that end. You'll hear a plane now and then.

Power lines follow the eastern and southern edges, and new fiber optic was laid along the eastern edge, so fast internet out here is a phone call to the provider rather than a wish; we'll hand you the numbers so you can confirm what service and a hookup take. Restrictions are light. Commercial hunting isn't allowed on the ranch, which keeps day-hunt traffic off the fencelines next to you. Owner financing is available on every tract here, with as little as 5% down.

October is the easy month to see it, when the heat lets go and there's still green in the grass. Wear boots you don't mind scuffing on caliche. We'll swing the bump gate at the northeast corner, take the east line first, stop at the ford on the southern end, then foot it into the thick northwest corner so you can see exactly what the juniper does before you settle on where the cabin sits.