Want to Own a Texas Mountain Range? Now’s Your Chance

If you’ve ever wanted to achieve the dream of owning a huge Texas ranch, now’s your chance.

The massive 32,000-acre Wylie Mountains Ranch just outside Marfa can be yours for a measly $27 million, according to the Houston Chronicle.

For that money, you’ll own almost the entire Wylie Mountains range, which is named after pioneer settler Robert K. Wylie and boasts peaks of up to 5,000 feet.

“The magnitude of a property such as the Wylie Mountains Ranch is the type of place that may only pop up once in a generation,” Republic Ranches listing agent Ross Studer told the Chronicle.

The ranch is home to various Chihuahuan Desert ecosystems, with “immense escarpments and spectacular canyons,” according to the listing service.

According to the Texas State Historical Association, Wylie was a Mississippi native who founded the ranch in 1885 near Van Horn with a herd of sheep that eventually grew to 60,000. Some of the highest points on the mountain range are the Bob and Mollie peaks, named for Wylie and his wife.

Aside from mountains, the ranch is home to a bunch of wildlife like deer, several species of quail — including the rarely seen Montezuma Quail — elk, and Barbary sheep.

Republic Ranches says the ranch has been used for livestock grazing in the past, but currently, the only cattle are “some strays from a neighbor.”

And if you’re feeling adventurous (and not at all claustrophobic), the property also has a “large sinkhole or cave that begs further exploration,” according to Republic Ranches.

While the Wylie ranch is huge, it’s nowhere near the biggest in Texas. The champ is still the massive King Ranch in South Texas at 825,000 acres, followed by the Briscoe Ranches at 640,000 acres.