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Canyon Creek Preserve · Medina County · 3 to 31 Acre Homesites

Build your home around the view.

Canyon Creek Preserve is a gated acreage community west of Helotes, Texas, off Highway 16 and Park Road 37. No production builders, no city taxes, no design center limitations.

See Homesites for Sale
~180
Platted homesites
70–75
Homes completed
18
Lots on the market
13–15
Miles to Loop 1604

01 / The Community

Canyon Creek Preserve: real hill country living in a home of your dreams.

Twenty minutes past the last stoplight, the subdivisions stop and the ridgelines take over. Canyon Creek Preserve sits just inside Medina County, west of Helotes, where lots are measured in acres instead of feet.

The community lies off Highway 16 and Park Road 37. Canyon Rim Road enters from PR 37 about three miles in from Hwy 16; the other entrances come off Canyon Creek Road. From the gate it is roughly 13 to 15 miles to Loop 1604 at Bandera Road — close enough for a weekday commute, a Costco run, or a dinner reservation in San Antonio — and about 12 miles to Medina Lake.

The gates are real gates. Codes are issued through the HOA portal, the roads inside are paved and privately owned by the property owners associations, and cameras watch the entrances. What that buys is not exclusivity for its own sake, but quiet: no cut-through traffic, no delivery trucks looking for the next street over, no sidewalk that connects your driveway to a thousand others.

This is an acreage community, not an amenity community. There is no pool or clubhouse. Instead there are greenbelts, a seasonal creek, and HOA dues of $595 to $662 a year — roughly one month of what an amenity center costs to belong to somewhere else. On the larger Phase 2 and 3 tracts, agricultural exemptions carry over, and horses and bow hunting are permitted.

You are outside city limits, so you are not paying for city services or the city tax rate that funds them. Your bill starts with county taxes and the school district — and on the larger tracts, ag exemptions bring the land portion down further.

Underground electric keeps the views clear of poles and lines. Water comes from a private well on your own lot, wastewater from an aerobic septic system, and fiber internet is available on at least some streets.

Generally the area is in the Northside ISD with students attending Los Reyes Elementary, Folks Middle School, and Harlan depending on the address. Confirm the school district for a specific lot before you buy — boundaries here do move.

Your acreage can carry animals. Horses, goats, miniature horses and miniature donkeys are allowed at one per two full acres owned, so a six-acre lot supports three. Up to ten laying hens are permitted per lot regardless of size.

Where is Canyon Creek Preserve?

02 / Building Custom

Your imagination is your limit.

There are no production builders in Canyon Creek Preserve. Custom built homes rule here, and the order of operations is reversed: you find the land first, then draw the house that belongs on it.

On a production lot the house is a fixed object dropped onto a rectangle. The pad is graded where the plat says, the front door faces the street because every front door faces the street, and the plan came off a menu of four elevations that the three houses beside you also chose from. It is an efficient way to build. It is a poor way to use twenty-five acres.

Custom on acreage means the site drives the plan. Walk the lot before you commit to a floorplan and you learn where the grade falls away, which direction the long view runs, where the oaks are worth saving, and where the evening sun lands in August. Then the plan answers those things: living space oriented to the view, glass on the shaded elevation, the garage turned off the approach, the drive routed around the trees instead of through them.

Written restrictions keep your neighbors’ choices from undoing yours. Plans go through architectural control review, and the recorded documents address minimum home size and masonry exteriors, commonly cited as a 2,000 square foot floor. Ask to see the recorded CC&Rs for the specific phase before you write an offer; they differ between the two associations.

Production build

  • Fixed plans, slight elevation differences, very limited modifications
  • Pad location set by the other homes, not by the view
  • Yard is what is left over behind the house
  • Shop, casita, and pool, if allowed, are built after the home completion
  • Upgrades limited to a few choices and only a certain number allowed

Custom on acreage

  • Square footage and room design set by how you actually live
  • House placement anywhere on the acreage — ridge, hillside, or tree line
  • Outdoor living is part of the design: pool, covered kitchen, courtyard
  • Room for a pool, shop, car barn, or guest quarters built with the home
  • Lot selected to fit your vision, or the design revised to fit the lot

01 Size

Existing homes run from about 2,400 to 5,100 square feet. Nothing forces you up or down that range except your own design and the 2,500 sq ft minimum.

02 Design

Hill Country modern, ranch, and farmhouse; all of it has been built here. Masonry requirements set the material floor, not the style.

03 Yard

Pool, sports courts, garden, orchard, workshop. Acreage means the outdoor design is planned rather than squeezed into a setback.

04 Placement

The single decision with the most effect on how the house feels — and the one a production contract takes away from you entirely.

Builders who have worked here

Highly rated award-winning builders

03 / Homesites

Eighteen lots for sale from $112K to $899K

Lots here are not the same. A three-acre lot on Canyon Rim and a thirty-one-acre lot on Table Rock are different purchases with different reasons behind them.

Price tracks three things here: acreage, elevation, and what you can see from the building site. The newest phase, Canyon Rim, is where entry pricing lives — three-acre lots from $112,000, which is the least expensive way into a gated custom community at this distance from 1604. Phase 4 lots of a similar size cost more because the streets are established and most of the neighbors have already built.

At the top of the range, the Phase 2 and 3 tracts are a different product: twenty-five acres and up, ag exempt, horses and bow hunting allowed, with enough depth that the house is not visible from the road. Below is the current market by phase, and then the four lots worth walking first.

A snapshot of lots for sale

Table Rock

31.6 ac

$899,000

The largest tract on the market. Ag exempt, room for a compound rather than a house, and a neighbor at 298 Table Rock who built 5,142 square feet plus a car barn — a useful reference for what the street supports.

Caprock Ridge

25 ac

$499,000

Ridge acreage at under $20,000 an acre. High ground with long westward views and depth enough to set the house well off Canyon Creek Road. The best value per acre in the community right now.

Sydney Springs

5.36 ac

$345,000

The largest site in the community’s most finished phase. Paved streets, built neighbors, and the seasonal creek and greenbelt system running through this part of the plat.

Canyon Rim

3.02 ac

from $169,000

The entry point. Wide lot with a view and rolling slope. Sites in this section have open views with a low cost of entry.

What the finished homes are worth

A lot purchase here is also a bet on the street. Appraised values on completed homes cluster between roughly $640,000 and $1.2 million on the three-to-five-acre lots, and $1.0 to $1.5 million on the twenty-five-acre tracts.

105 Clear Water Canyon — 2,435 sq ft, 3.3 ac, pool
sold Nov 2025 · $827k–$947k

640 Canyon Forest — 2,624 sq ft, 5.2 ac
sold Dec 2023 · listed $570k

298 Table Rock — 5,142 sq ft plus car barn, 26.5 ac
listed · $3,995,000

Thank You

You’ve made the first step to creating your dream home.
We look forward to helping you through the process.

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