Embrace the good life at Rancho Buena Vida, the lux Texas ranch experience
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The allure of the wide open road gets to Texans come springtime.
There s nothing quite like rolling the windows down and heading out on a true Texas road trip. If you re yearning for a good Lone Star State adventure but want a little ranch luxury, the Hill Country s Rancho Buena Vida might be calling you. Rancho Buena Vida is one of the 20 private ranch rentals that you can snap up through Explore Ranches.
Just 25 miles out of Austin, Rancho Buena Vida a.k.a. Good Life Ranch sits right on a bluff near the famous Hamilton Pools at the edge of the Texas Hill Country. The sumptuous spot goes for $5,000 per night. The 150-acre original ranch featured a main house, guest house and small chicken coop. Its since been spruced up into a highly-coveted, bucolic Hill Country retreat.
Texas company specializes in luxury, resortlike ranch rentals with thousands of unspoiled acres and luxurious amenities
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Surrounded by the Palo Pinto Mountains about an hour west of Fort Worth, Rocker B Ranch is more like a sports paradise with features that include three baseball fields, a driving range and a basketball and tennis court. The 320-acre ranch is available for rental through Explore Ranches for $5,500 a night.Imagery Intelligence LLC /Explore RanchesShow MoreShow Less
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Withers Ranch, available for rental through Explore Ranches for $650 per adult per night, is part of a 100,000-acre bio-reserve. The ranch near Fort Davis also is the family ranch of Explore Ranches co-founder Allison Ryan.Chris Collis /Explore RanchesShow MoreShow Less
Withers Ranch in West Texas.
Stepping out onto the timber-framed patio at West Texas’s Withers Ranch, coffee in hand, it’s hard not to be struck by the sheer starkness of the Davis Mountains, rising hundreds of feet above. The bottom of Madera Canyon curves down past the adobe house, with rock outcroppings pockmarking the slopes. The juniper and pinyon pines that dot the hillsides are almost assuredly hiding bedded mule deer and coyotes, maybe even a lone cougar. But the animals are invisible from the back porch in all but the twilight hours. Even driving up to the ranch itself, down eleven miles of unpaved roads, is an adventure, like driving across an African savanna, with montane grasslands stretching out to the horizon.