Dripping Springs Real Estate

Dripping Springs is the Hill Country's front porch — the small town 25 miles west of Austin that became the self-styled Wedding Capital of Texas and the state's first certified Dark Sky community, where one search page runs from half-million-dollar subdivision homes to eight-figure ranches. Read more about Dripping Springs living, communities, schools and buying below.

Dripping Springs, Texas Real Estate

439 Drury Lane

$549,000

Austin, TX
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 2268 Sqft, 0.25 Acres
Residential
AustinRealEstate.com

2518 W Fitzhugh Road

$15,995,000

Dripping Springs, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 5375 Sqft, 186.15 Acres
Residential
Engel & Volkers Austin

475 Happy Trail

$9,950,000

Dripping Springs, TX
7 Bed, 9 Bath, 8000 Sqft, 9 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

6594 W Hwy 290

$7,000,000

Dripping Springs, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 2542 Sqft, 171.79 Acres
Residential
Wow Properties

418 Cattle Trail Drive

$6,999,000

Dripping Springs, TX
6 Bed, 8 Bath, 8480 Sqft, 21.3 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

2560 Bell Springs Road

$6,660,000

Dripping Springs, TX
4 Bed, 6 Bath, 5391 Sqft, 46 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

REDUCED

3340 Martin Road

$5,500,000

Dripping Springs, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 3656 Sqft, 42.8 Acres
Residential
Buono & Associates

110 Longhorn Lane

$5,300,000

Dripping Springs, TX
5 Bed, 5 Bath, 4340 Sqft, 19.97 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

14145 Bear Creek Pass

$4,495,000

Austin, TX
10 Bed, 8 Bath, 7321 Sqft, 5.48 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty

REDUCED

5801 Mount Gainor Road

$4,250,000

Dripping Springs, TX
5 Bed, 3 Bath, 5400 Sqft, 39.49 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty

REDUCED

1149 Canyon Crossing View

$4,250,000

Dripping Springs, TX
5 Bed, 6 Bath, 4950 Sqft, 12.91 Acres
Residential
Moreland Properties

1457 Avenida High View

$4,250,000

Driftwood, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 4564 Sqft, 17.97 Acres
Residential
Moreland Properties

101 Sundance Trail

$3,995,000

Dripping Springs, TX
8 Bed, 6 Bath, 5568 Sqft, 31.75 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

REDUCED

1550 Trebled Waters Trail

$3,945,000

Driftwood, TX
6 Bed, 7 Bath, 8959 Sqft, 4.55 Acres
Residential
Friedman Real Estate, Inc.

3300 Rm-165 - Lot 2

$3,875,400

Dripping Springs, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 4306 Sqft, 16.62 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

3300 Rm -165 - Lot 23

$3,813,950

Dripping Springs, TX
4 Bed, 6 Bath, 4487 Sqft, 14.5 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

REDUCED

244 Zonetail Cove

$3,449,000

Austin, TX
5 Bed, 5 Bath, 4626 Sqft, 1.44 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

3303 Fearless Treadway

$3,336,150

Round Mountain, TX
2 Bed, 3 Bath, 1623 Sqft, 44.48 Acres
Residential
Phyllis Browning Company

REDUCED

831 Polo Club Drive

$3,300,000

Austin, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 5212 Sqft, 1.66 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty

REDUCED

400 Medlin Creek Loop

$3,250,000

Dripping Springs, TX
4 Bed, 6 Bath, 5691 Sqft, 1.5 Acres
Residential
Magnolia Realty Austin Hill Co

1900 Pursley Road

$3,200,000

Dripping Springs, TX
5 Bed, 7 Bath, 4357 Sqft, 12 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

REDUCED

7000 Mcgregor Lane

$3,150,000

Dripping Springs, TX
12 Bed, 12 Bath, 2148 Sqft, 46.02 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty Professionals

REDUCED

25711 Hamilton Pool Road

$3,000,000

Round Mountain, TX
2 Bed, 2 Bath, 1560 Sqft, 34 Acres
Residential
Wow Properties

REDUCED

733 And 701 Dawn View

$2,998,000

Dripping Springs, TX
5 Bed, 5 Bath, 3649 Sqft, 30.72 Acres
Residential
Moreland Properties

503 Happy Trail

$2,950,000

Dripping Springs, TX
4 Bed, 6 Bath, 3800 Sqft, 7.78 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

1293 Harmon Hills Road

$2,950,000

Dripping Springs, TX
10 Bed, 8 Bath, 4983 Sqft, 10.05 Acres
Residential
Coffman Real Estate

109 Delayne Drive

$2,950,000

Austin, TX
5 Bed, 4 Bath, 4870 Sqft, 0.52 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

REDUCED

Tbd Mesa Alta Lane

$2,875,000

Dripping Springs, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 3916 Sqft, 8.23 Acres
Residential
Coldwell Banker Realty

481 Lionheart Way

$2,859,000

Dripping Springs, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 3300 Sqft, 1.5 Acres
Residential
Den Property Group

345 Leafdale Trail

$2,600,000

Dripping Springs, TX
5 Bed, 5 Bath, 6066 Sqft, 4.62 Acres
Residential
Nesthaven Properties

910 Plant Lady Lane

$2,599,000

Dripping Springs, TX
3 Bed, 4 Bath, 2837 Sqft, 25.52 Acres
Residential
Christies Intl Real Estate Lone Star

12932 Nutty Brown Rd

$2,590,000

Austin, TX
16 Bed, 12 Bath, 10000 Sqft, 6.28 Acres
Residential
Phyllis Browning Company

REDUCED

306 Napa Court

$2,500,000

Driftwood, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 4037 Sqft, 2.96 Acres
Residential
Friedman Real Estate, Inc.

3706 Tuscany Drive

$2,500,000

Driftwood, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 4569 Sqft, 3.16 Acres
Residential
Christies Intl Real Estate Lone Star

REDUCED

13901 Fm 1826

$2,500,000

Austin, TX
9 Bed, 6 Bath, 7322 Sqft, 4.99 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

REDUCED

103 Victorian Oaks Lane

$2,499,000

Dripping Springs, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 3670 Sqft, 3.14 Acres
Residential
Nesthaven Properties

REDUCED

14909 Fitzhugh Road B

$2,499,000

Dripping Springs, TX
4 Bed, 5 Bath, 3400 Sqft, 12.68 Acres
Residential
Moreland Properties

14036 Timberline Trail

$2,495,000

Austin, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 5216 Sqft, 6.57 Acres
Residential
Stanberry Realtors

REDUCED

329 Calvary Cove

$2,490,000

Dripping Springs, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 3573 Sqft, 3.83 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

3409 Gatlin Creek Road

$2,400,000

Dripping Springs, TX
3 Bed, 3 Bath, 2866 Sqft, 32 Acres
Residential
Bramlett Partners

REDUCED

1525 Springlake Drive

$2,385,000

Dripping Springs, TX
3 Bed, 5 Bath, 4234 Sqft, 5.84 Acres
Residential
Bramlett Partners

REDUCED

122 Crosswater Lane

$2,349,900

Dripping Springs, TX
5 Bed, 6 Bath, 4960 Sqft, 0.42 Acres
Residential
Homesusa.com

140 Midnight Sky Drive

$2,250,000

Austin, TX
4 Bed, 6 Bath, 4900 Sqft, 3 Acres
Residential
Kw-austin Portfolio Real Estate

REDUCED

13624 Trautwein Road

$2,200,000

Austin, TX
8 Bed, 7 Bath, 4903 Sqft, 5.05 Acres
Residential
Compass Re Texas, Llc

REDUCED

333 Stallion Lane

$2,090,000

Dripping Springs, TX
4 Bed, 4 Bath, 3190 Sqft, 12.81 Acres
Residential
Keller Williams Realty

Dripping Springs, Texas Lifestyle

Under the Dark Sky

Start with the thing no other Austin-area town can claim: in 2014, Dripping Springs became the first community in Texas certified as an International Dark Sky Community, and the night sky here is a managed civic asset. Outdoor lighting follows shielded, warm, aim-it-down standards, which is why the stars over a back porch out here look the way city dwellers forgot they could — and why exterior fixtures are a real line on a buyer's checklist, not a decorating afterthought. The culture runs deeper than the ordinance: neighborhoods build star-gazing amphitheaters into their parks, and a clear night is treated as an amenity with the same seriousness other towns reserve for golf.

The Outdoors

The land is the draw, and the public pieces of it are extraordinary. Hamilton Pool, the collapsed-grotto swimming hole, sits just north with Reimers Ranch's climbing walls and mountain bike trails beside it, and Pedernales Falls State Park lies a short drive west. The creeks matter as much as the parks: Barton Creek and Onion Creek both begin in this countryside, and the towns and communities here organize themselves around creek corridors, springs and swimming holes the way coastal towns organize around beaches. Ranch roads like Fitzhugh, McGregor and Creek make for the kind of cycling and back-porch-drive country that gets photographed for magazines.

Around Town

Mercer Street is the heart — a couple of blocks of nineteenth-century storefronts holding restaurants, shops and the Saturday farmers market, with the town's festival calendar running from Founders Day each spring through the winter lights. The venue economy earned the Wedding Capital nickname honestly: dozens of hill-and-vineyard event properties ring the town, and alongside them has grown one of Texas's densest corridors of wineries, breweries and distilleries, strung along 290 west and the Fitzhugh Road corridor. The practical upshot for residents is a rare mix — small-town errands on Mercer Street, a tasting-room economy at the doorstep, and Austin's amenities half an hour east.

Communities and New Development

The Dripping Springs market spans master-planned communities, established acreage neighborhoods and open ranchland, and we maintain dedicated pages for each:

• Headwaters — the Barton Creek headwaters master plan, with the district's newest elementary inside
• Belterra and Highpointe — the Austin-addressed master plans on the east side, Highpointe behind gates
• Caliterra — the Onion Creek community at the south edge of town, still building
• Sunset Canyon, Rim Rock and Saddletree Ranch — the established acreage neighborhoods
• Polo Club and The Preserve at Dripping Springs — the estate enclaves
• Sawyer Ranch, West Cave Estates and Hidden Springs Ranch — the corridor's acreage communities
• Driftwood — the vineyard-and-venue country to the south, with its own page
• Dripping Springs Lots — land listings, from homesites to ranch tracts

Schools

The town anchors Dripping Springs ISD, which now serves more than 8,600 students across nine campuses — six elementaries, two middle schools and Dripping Springs High — after opening Wildwood Springs Elementary in the Headwaters community in 2025 and redrawing elementary and middle zones around it. The district's second high school, Driftwood Springs High School, is under construction toward a 2028-29 opening, and the boundary between the two high schools has not been drawn, which makes the current zone maps required reading for any purchase where the campus matters. The district has also opened out-of-district transfer applications for younger grades in recent years. The full picture — campuses, feeder chains, the rezoning and the new high school — is on our Dripping Springs ISD page, with maps on the district's website.

History

The town's story begins in the 1850s, when the Moss, Wallace and Pound families came from Mississippi to what was then the edge of the frontier, thirty miles from the capital. John Moss became the first postmaster in 1857, the settlement took its name from the springs that seep and drip from the limestone at the creek, and the town grew as a stagecoach stop on the freight line between Austin and Fredericksburg. Pieces of that era survive walkably: the Pound family's farmstead still stands as a preserved homestead, Mercer Street keeps its old storefront line, and the springs themselves still drip behind downtown — a town that has managed to grow tenfold without misplacing the thing it was named for.

For Buyers

Know what this page's market actually covers. "Dripping Springs" as a search area runs well past the city limits and the 78620 ZIP — the listings above reach into Driftwood, the Fitzhugh corridor's Austin-addressed 78736 edge, and out Hamilton Pool Road — so the label describes a countryside, not a city boundary, and the school district, county and utilities for any given property need checking individually rather than assuming from the name.

Water is the first due-diligence layer out here. Inside the city and the master plans, homes run on utility systems with the taxes and dues that fund them; beyond, the country runs on wells, septic systems and rainwater collection — some homes entirely on captured rain — with groundwater permitting under the local conservation district part of the picture for wells. None of this is exotic locally, all of it is checkable for a specific property, and the monthly and maintenance realities differ genuinely between a MUD tract and an ag-exempt twenty acres at the same price.

Layer in the town's own rules and the market's shape. Dark Sky lighting standards reach across the city and its jurisdiction, so exterior fixtures and any planned outdoor lighting should be specced to comply; city-limits versus ETJ versus county status changes what governs a lot; and the price spread here — from the $500,000s to eight figures on the same page — means area-wide medians describe the mix of what happened to sell, never a specific property's market. Comparable-checking happens at the neighborhood and road level, and we are happy to do it properly.

Finally, verify everything address by address — district, jurisdiction, water, zone — including against any general description, this one included. When you are ready to walk the Hill Country properly, our Dripping Springs Realtors are a note away.

By: Jim Olenbush
Area information last updated: August 2026