Ranches

An assemblage of 7 ranches making up 424,000± acres that include some of the most amazing land features found in the Southwest, located in Brewster County, TX includes the following ranches.
Dagger Flats Ranch 120,444 acres $632 per acre
Dove Mountain Ranch 102,078 acres $675 per acre
Rio Texico Ranch 95,570 acres $545 per acre
YE Mesa Ranch 34,480 acres $665 per acre
Horse Mountain Ranch 34,123 acres $785 per acre
Tesnus Ranch 19,814 acres $765 per acre
Matthews Law Ranch 17,542 acres $585 per acre

Dagger Flats Ranch has 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 five miles.

Dove Mountain Ranch is a massive contiguous cattle and hunting ranch is at the gateway to Big Bend National Park to the south and is home to a wide array of natural features. 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.

Rio Texico Ranch is located in the vast expanse between Big Bend National Park and Black Gap WMA to the west, Highway 90 to the north and Mexico to the south in one of the last truly wild landscapes of the Chihuahuan Desert.

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.

YE Mesa is an elevated high mountain volcanic structure sitting high over Big Bend National Park’s north entrance along and includes 10 miles of the Santiago Mountains that form Persimmon Gap to the south. Rugged, wild, secluded, amazing are just a few words to describe this true mountain ranch.

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.

Agua Fria Ranch is located 60 miles south of Alpine, adjacent to Big Bend Ranch State Park, and is comprised of almost the entire Agua Fria Mountain range with adjoining mid-lower elevation grasslands and scrubland. Agua Fria Spring, a prolific natural water source, is captured and distributed throughout the ranch. There are three separate areas of improvements and one working mining operation.