Part of the original 20,000 acre Auld Ranch, Cielo Grande is an unbelievably scenic game ranch perched among the highest elevations in the Edwards Plateau. Driving into the ranch along a one mile asphalt paved road from the highway to the Spanish style villa, you instantly recognize the unique character of this land. Look west into one of many deep canyons and you see a wide variety of beautiful hardwoods, axis, whitetail, auodad, blackbucks, sika, and hogs. Cielo Grande was selectively hand cleared of cedars many moons ago and as a result, the grasses and trees have flourished. The ranch roads are very good and take you from high up on the scenic plateaus and drop you down into the canyons filled with Escarpment Cherry, Black Walnuts, Live Oaks, Sycamores, Blue (Lacey) Oaks, Spanish Oaks, Texas Oaks and more. One of the canyons on the ranch features a spring where a concrete trough was built back in 1922 to hold water for game.

Location:

Paved road frontage on U.S. Hwy. 83 in western Real County. This ranch is located approximately 15 miles north of Leakey and 2 miles south of State Hwy. 39. Driving time to San Antonio is approximately 1.5 hours. IH-10 is 33 miles via State Hwy. 41.

Improvements:

After wildlife viewing around the ranch, take a break on the porch of the 2,575 +/- square foot villa. The stucco-sided villa features Spanish tile roofing, three bedrooms, three baths, tile floors, a large entertaining style kitchen, bar and dining room, 1,100 square feet of covered porches and a 1,000 SF enclosed garage with workshop. Next to the home sits a steel-framed R.V. barn where you can store your ranch equipment. The water well at the headquarters is "sweet" water from the Trinity reservoir and besides the house it serves to fill several water troughs. Cielo Grande is game-fenced across the north perimeter and Hwy. 83 frontage only. The southern perimeter will be game-fenced. Please call Ken or Jay for more information.