The roughly 884-acre Prairie Oaks Ranch with a nine-hole golf course and multiple lakes is on the market in Bowie.A roughly 884-acre ranch just over an hour’s drive northwest of Fort Worth is on the market.in Bowie includes a nine-hole golf course, multiple lakes, a swimming pool, shooting ranges, water wells, equipment barns and working pens and fencing for livestock. It has more than 4,000 feet of frontage along the Denton Creek.
The Montague County property is at the south end of Airport Road adjacent to the Bowie Municipal Airport, just south of Highway 59.The Burgher-Ray Ranch Group of Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty, which is led by David Burgher and Harlan Ray, listed the property for $12.5 million. The ranch was once home to Sauropod dinosaurs, American bison, Comanche hunting parties and a way station along the Chisholm Trail, according to the real estate listing. White-tailed deer, bobcats, coyotes, migratory fowl and bald eagles, as well as many other species of birds, fish and game, can be found at the ranch, the listing says.A three-story, five-bedroom home on site is surrounded by a patio, two outdoor fireplaces and an outdoor kitchen.
The ranch has more than five miles of paved hiking trails. Buyers would be able to boat and waterski on the main lake, hunt for fossils in its deep ravines and golf on the private golf course. The property also has rifle and sporting clay ranges.