Ranches

Dove Mountain offers a variety of habitats and improvements which start on the north at Tres Hermanos summit on the Shely Peaks at 5,210 feet down into a wide scenic valley where you find the live water section of San Francisco Creek that is cottonwood lined for over two miles. The Pine Mountains where there are some of the most majestic overlooks in the entire region. Pinyon pine found on the north slope and above on the Mesa and within the canyons provide habitat for an Elk herd that can be seen regularly. If there is one thing that makes this ranch stand out is the availability of Desert Big Horn Sheep habitats as well as the availability of permits by TPWD.

Classic “Big Bend Country” of the Old West, Rio Texico Ranch has maintained much of the environment and appearance of times past. Rio Texico Ranch’s San Francisco Creek is a year-round live water with Cottonwood gallery forests on both banks and riparian vegetation are very rare in this desert and a magnet for wildlife. The ranch is a working cattle ranch with some excellent recently improved infrastructure. There are miles of new internal fences, pens, and traps as well as water and road improvements.

YE Mesa Ranch is as beautiful and rugged as it gets in the Big Bend County with an excellent road system accessing valleys, mountains and canyons throughout. The spine of the Santiago Mountains is the western boundary on the north ranch but cuts across the south ranch creating a series of ridges and valleys and outstanding views. Connected to the west side of the Santiago Mountains is YE Mesa itself with a raised volcanic uplift and peak slopping off toward Chalk Draw just off the ranch. There are numerous commanding vistas of the entire Big Bend Region and its mountain features including El Pico in the Del Carmens and the entire Chiosos Mountain skyline.

Horse Mountain Ranch is located just a 30-minute drive from the Gage Hotel in Marathon, which serves as the gateway to Big Bend Nation Park to the south. Horse Mountain Ranch is divided into two contiguous historical ownerships with the north portion being a wide valley between the Pena Blanca Mountains, Horse Mountain and Twin Peaks creating an expanse called Lightning Flat where the headwaters of Horse Draw and Pena Blanca Draw are located. The Headquarters is located on the north unit adjacent to the Historic Reed Spring which makes a beautiful cottonwood tree lined lake.

Cathedral Mountain Ranch 10,000 acres only 13.5 miles south of Alpine on highway 118. Iconic ranch with 5.3 miles both sides of spring-fed Calamity Creek. The Ranch has a 3,000 sf owners Lodge set up facing south framing Cathedral Mountain, a 3-bedroom 2 bath foreman’s home, large stocked lake, trees, rock outcrops, and elevations up to 6,868 feet. Rare opportunity. Co-Listed with Carpenter Real Estate.

Tesnus Ranch is a cattle and hunting recreation ranch just 45 minutes from Marathon, TX and the Gage Hotel yet with an amazing amount of seclusion. This vast private area is bounded by the towering House Top Mountains on the north and east and Shely Peaks Mesa, where you can look off over San Francisco Creek valley into Mexico, with a series of wooded canyons, mountains, valleys, and draws. Tesnus is Sunset spelled backwards and is a creative name for a historic railroad town established in 1882 on the Southern Pacific Railroad.

Panther Rock Ranch is part of the historic Woodward Ranch and is located on the banks of year-round Ash Creek on the east side of Highway 118 south of Alpine. With elevations between 4,736 and 5,021 feet, the ranch has one of the best year-round climates in the state and arguably the entire country.

Stagecoach Ridge Ranch is located within the unique gated ranch community of Sierra La Rana just south of Alpine, the gateway into the Big Bend Country. This exclusive subdivision has well-maintained roads and buried electric service.