Our Story
The Scott Family
Pictured (center) Ranell Scott, Owner; Joyce Scott (right) and daughter, Kaylie Horner and son, Hayes.
Ranger Creek Ranch offers guests unparalleled hunting and big adventures, Texas style. Ranger Creek Ranch is one of the most diversified ranches in Texas for hunting popular game such as White-tail deer, dove, wild hogs, aoudad, duck, and turkey. Predator hunting is also popular for bobcats, coyotes, crows, raccoons, Texas Jackrabbits, opossums, ground squirrels, and skunks. Bass and catfish fishing round out the adventures from our beautiful pond and deck. Almost any outdoor activity is possible within the borders of the ranch.
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Due to the unique landscape of grasslands, Ranger Creek Ranch provides some of the best waterfowl hunting and dove hunting in the United States. Further, the canyons, cedar breaks, and mesquite flats offer wild hog hunting, whitetail deer hunting and free range aoudad sheep. We host hunters from around the world.
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The outdoor activities continue with walking and riding trails through endless miles of scenic canyons, beautiful spring fed creeks, rough cedar breaks and rolling mesquite flats. On these trails, our guests have the opportunity to see exquisite and elusive wildlife, incredible landscapes and beautiful foliage. Ranger Creek Ranch is truly a photographers dream. At night, the sky takes the stage, as you gaze upon bright and clear star-filled skies that seem to go on forever. Nighttime is a beautiful opportunity to relax and unwind.​ Our family invites you to join us. Come out, hunt, break a sweat, then cool off in a spring-fed pond, relax on the balcony watch the sun go down, breathe the fresh air and settle in to a slower pace of life.
Joyce and Gaylon Scott
Ranger Creek Ranch was founded in 1990 by Joyce and Gaylon Scott, and their daughter Ranell Scott, with family roots dating back to early 1900 settlement days. The family came in horse and buggy from Erath County and arrived in Knox County, Texas, December 10, 1900, which was the beginning of the ranching era. Fences were built and some of the original land was broken by horse and plow into cropland. In order to extend the farming and ranching operation, and to introduce the public to this exquisite region of the state of Texas, Ranger Creek Ranch was opened spanning both Knox and Baylor Counties
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In the beginning, the ranch was made available for private and corporate hunting, and was run from the family kitchen table in the old ranch house. Now the facility has grown to house several large lodging facilities, multiple hunting lodge houses, rustic barns, and an industrial kitchen fit for a king. Corporate events, weddings, and large family gatherings can be booked through our sister company, The Reserve at Ranger Creek Ranch.
We are happy to welcome guests from all over the world.
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Ranger Creek Ranch is located in Vera, TX in the north central part of the state with beautiful grasslands and wide open spaces. It is approximately 17 miles west of Seymour, TX or 160 miles west of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex on Highway 114/82. Google directions found here.