Thousands of years ago, native Apache peoples settled into the ancient caves and rock shelters of the Lower Pecos Canyon District seeking out the abundance and variety of wild game offered in the area. While the abundance of wild game remains, those ancient peoples have long since gone, leaving behind caches of seeds, various tools, bits of clothing, cave art, burial sites and, of course, their ghosts. These are the lands of Ghostwater Creek, so named both for the legends of ghost sightings that stretch back nearly a century among the area’s residents and for the ghost-like comings and goings of powerful water flows in the low-lying areas of the region.

The Ghostwater Creek Ranch consists of over 2,000 acres of prime hunting land including “The Reserve”, a section of especially rugged terrain where some very large animals are known to live. The landscape contains vast areas wooded with oaks and other native trees and brush along with immensely large hills with terraced shelf rocks and caves that slope down onto numerous dry creek beds. These lands provide an excellent habitat for Barbado, Aoudad, Axis Deer, Javelina, Turkey, Quail, Dove and, of course, White Tail Deer, all of whom thrive on the ranch in unique abundance.