DESCRIPTION:

The Guadalupe River Bend Ranch is a unique blank canvas property featuring extensive live water frontage and recreational possibilities.

This ranch is two tracts of land consisting of a 224 acre tract, and a 140 acre tract. Combined these tracts make one contiguous 364 acre ranch. Each individual tract can be bought or both can be bought to make one ranch.

Nestled within the rolling landscape, the Guadalupe River Bend Ranch boasts approximately 10,000 feet of Guadalupe River frontage, providing direct access to the river throughout the property.  The Guadalupe River is renowned for its abundant wildlife and scenic beauty, offering an excellent opportunity for all outdoor enthusiasts. The year round river provides opportunities for fishing, small craft boating, kayaking, swimming, and nature watching. The year round river also is crucial water source for cattle as well as native wildlife in the surrounding area. 

 The ranch features abundant wildlife including deer, turkey, waterfowl, dove, fish, and wild hogs. Due to the river providing a year-round water source as well as the diversity of the terrain, the wildlife have flourished over the years. In addition to the river, there are also three ponds throughout the ranch that are fed by water well allowing for constant water levels if desired. One of these ponds has been used and managed for winter waterfowl hunting in recent years, as well as year-round habitat for local wildlife. The ranch has been a part of the Hamon River Bottom Wildlife Management MLD program for the past decade, allowing for extended harvest seasons and additional tags for doe. The property has been lightly hunted over the years by the family and the hunting pressure is very low. There is a small storage shed that features electricity and outdoor game cleaning station. The property has a water well providing water to three ponds on the ranch for cattle and wildlife.

The diversity of the ranch is remarkable, featuring thick hardwood forests and hilltops intersected by seasonal creek bottoms as well as native pastures. The hilltop portion of the ranch reaches around 80 feet in elevation from the river bottom below. The lower portion of the property features towering pecan tree lined river bottoms as the terrain changes to more flood plain. The ranch also features a large wet weather creek that traverses the length of the property and deposits into the river on the ranch. This wet weather creek with its deep draws and ravines, as well as the large river frontage provide ample amount of natural water and sources year-round for native wildlife to flourish. The property features ample amount of large river gravel areas that allow for easy excavation to use for road base material. There is a cleared potential homesite roughly 500 feet from the river on top of a large hill above the 500 year flood plain. The river frontage also allows for water to be pumped from the river for landowner domestic and livestock use. The surrounding properties are large expansive ranches adding to the privacy and seclusion of this one of a kind ranch.

Located in Gonzales County, this ranch offers the perfect balance between seclusion and convenience, with easy access to Interstate 10 and major metroplexes such as Austin, San Antonio, and Houston. The cities of Austin and San Antonio are both 1 hour and 20 minutes away, with Houston only being two hours. The town of Gonzales, TX is a short 15-minute drive away and is rich with history including being the site of the first battle of the Texas Revolution and the famous "Come and Take It" cannon. The quaint town of Shiner, TX and the Shiner Beer Factory is also a short twenty-minute drive from the ranch. 

WATER:

There is over 10,000 ft of Guadalupe River frontage. There are three ponds fed by water well for constant water if desired. There is also a wet weather creek that flows through the northwestern portion of the ranch, depositing into the river on the property.

WILDLIFE:

 The ranch has a healthy herd of whitetail deer that have been managed for the past 18 years through the Hamon River Bottom Wildlife Association program allowing for doe harvest through MLD permits. There are also numerous Rio Grande turkey, feral hogs, dove, and wintering waterfowl that frequent the property. The property has been lightly hunted over the years by the owner and has not been leased for hunting in over 20 years. The ranch is 1D1 ag exempt.