Story by Craig Nyhus, Lone Star Outdoor News
This story originally appeared in the Oct. 22 issue of LSON.
Fairfield Lake, billed as the largest private lake in Texas, is for sale.
The lake was built in 1969 when the Texas Power and Light Company constructed a dam on Big BrownCreek that served Brown Power Plant. The lake became a popular fishery for largemouth bass, redfish and blue tilapia, which survived in the lake’s warm waters. The power plant was retired in 2018, but fishing remains good for largemouth bass, and ample white-tailed deer and other wildlife live on the remote and mostly untouched landscape.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department opened Fairfield Lake State Park on the property in 1976.
The offering, listed by Hortenstine Ranch Company, consists of 5,025 acres, including the 2,400-acre reservoir and the 1,800-acre state park. With 21 miles of elevated shoreline and a mature hardwood forest, the property also includes 825 acres on the lake’s north side which includes two private islands connected by a land bridge. The park property is leased to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and may be continued or canceled with sufficient notice to TPWD.
The asking price for the property is $110,550,000, or $22,000 per acre. Hortenstine said Fairfield Lake is a once in a generation opportunity, and future development of the 150-acre and 30-acre islands is limited only by one’s imagination. “This property is a blank canvas offering massive development potential,” he said. “Ownership uses could range from a private ranch or hunting and fishing club to residential, commercial, leisure or resort development.”
Fairfield Lake is located in Freestone County, just east of Interstate 45, in Texas’ Post Oak Savannah Region.
