$275,000

Some views you buy. This one you keep. This 4.27-acre homesite in Canyon Ridge Springs sits directly across from the Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge — 27,500 acres of federally protected canyon, cedar, and sky that will never be subdivided and never be built on. The horizon you see from your future front porch is the horizon your grandchildren will see. Behind a gated entrance and a long stretch of ranch road, this is genuine Hill Country quiet: migratory birds overhead, deer in the draws, and dark enough at night to actually see the stars. Yet the practical work is already done. Aqua Texas water and PEC electric are available to the property, so you arrive as a builder, not a developer. Septic to be installed by buyer. Residents share a private creekside park on the banks of Cow Creek — pavilion, picnic tables, and grills tucked in beneath the trees, just across from the community entrance. The refuge itself offers hiking through canyon, river bottom, and open field. Remote enough to feel like an escape, close enough to be practical: roughly twenty minutes to Marble Falls, Liberty Hill, and Lago Vista, and about forty-five minutes northwest of Austin. Bring your builder and your own timeline. Land like this — protected on one side, gated on the other — doesn't get made anymore.