Sundown over green brush flecked with white flowers, a line of trees on the horizon.

The Ranch

Restoration Ranch badge: a bleached hog skull with tusks under two stars, oaks and rust hills.Restoration RanchNavarro County, Texas

Fifty-five acres in Navarro County, an hour’s drive and a different century from Dallas. Waco is about an hour away, Austin about two and a half hours, Houston about three. Restoration Ranch isn’t a resort standing on cleared ground — it’s a working restoration first, a hunt second. The brush is being brought back, the water sources tended, the feeders placed and watched, not guessed at. Every camera here exists because we’d rather know what’s actually on the land than promise what might be.

That’s slower than marketing usually allows, and it’s the point: this place earns its claims before it makes them. Hogs are already moving in numbers you can check yourself, feeder by feeder, night by night. Deer are showing the same way — on the record, not in a brochure.

What you book here is a piece of ground being restored, quietly, with the evidence to prove it.

Green field and tree line seen from the shooting blind at the ranch, a lone tree at right.
From the shooting blind
The sun setting behind brush and trees, seen from the shooting blind across a pale field.
From the blind, at sundown
View over a red tractor's front-loader across a mown pasture toward trees and brush.
Working the pasture

55 acres · Navarro County, TX · 3 monitored feeders