Prairie Oaks Ranch in Bowie asks $12.5M

A Texas ranch with a private golf course in Bowie has landed on the market.

The Prairie Oaks Ranch, located a little more than an hour north of Fort Worth, is asking $12.5 million, the Dallas Morning News reported. The Burgher-Ray Ranch Group with Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty is handling the listing.

The 884-acre property, at 1 Airport Road, has multiple lakes, water wells, a nine-hole golf course, swimming pool and shooting ranges, as well as equipment barns and working pens for livestock. It also has more than 4,000 feet of frontage along Denton Creek.

Once home to Sauropod dinosaurs, American bison, Comanche hunting parties and a Chisholm Trail way station, the property is still home to white-tailed deer, bobcats, migratory birds and bald eagles.

The main house is a three-story, five-bedroom home with a surrounding patio, two outdoor fireplaces and an outdoor kitchen. The property also has more than five miles of paved hiking trails and deep ravines.

Texas ranch owners have been selling off their large properties recently. To the south, Nineteen Mile Ranch, in the Texas Hill Country’s Uvalde County northwest of San Antonio, was listed for $18.5 million by Foster Farm & Ranch in August.

Wealthy buyers across the U.S. have been on the hunt for luxury ranches — all land, no cattle, but lots of fish and wildlife — since the height of the pandemic, when many fled large cities for less-populated realms. Texas cashed in on this boom, as did Montana, Colorado and other western states. While longtime local farm and ranch brokers held their own in Texas, national brokers such Douglas Elliman opened divisions for big land sales.

The 64,000-acre Mesa Vista Ranch, owned by the late oil tycoon and billionaire T. Boone Pickens, sold in two pieces last year for an estimated total of $170 million.

— Victoria Pruitt