10 Homes for Sale With Their Own Bridge

I have decided I need a house with a bridge. Not a bridge loan, not a house near a bridge, an actual bridge on the property that you cross to get somewhere. So I went looking, and Central Texas delivered, all the way up to a $19 million estate in Westlake where the driveway crosses a stone bridge over a creek before you even reach the front door.

Here is where this comes from. My grandparents had a bridge at their house when I was little, a little bridge into the woods. That is the whole memory. But it stuck, and somewhere along the way I got it in my head that a house is not really finished until it has a bridge you can walk across. My wife has heard about this more than she would like.

So I did what any reasonable person with access to the entire MLS would do. I searched every active listing description in our feed for the word “bridge.” It came back with 129 homes. Then came the fun part, which was throwing out the pretenders.

Because most of those 129 are not what you think. A bunch are near Bridge Point Elementary. A bunch just have views of the Pennybacker (the 360 bridge), which, gorgeous, but you do not own it. One listing called the architecture “a bridge between then and now,” which, ok, poetry. And one enterprising seller was advertising “bridge financing,” which is a loan, not a bridge, nice try.

Then I went one step further, because trust but verify: I pulled every photo from every finalist and made sure you can actually see the bridge with your own eyes. This got brutal. A $12 million vineyard estate claimed a bridge-covered waterfall its photographer never once found. A ranch out east promised a turtle-filled creek bridge, and the photos show the creek, they show a fallen log, they even label the turtles on the aerial, and there is no bridge in a single frame. Out. Both of them. If I cannot see the bridge, you do not get on the list.

The 10 Most Expensive Homes for Sale With a Bridge You Can Actually See

Every home below has a real bridge on the property, verified in the listing photos, from a stone driveway crossing in Westlake to a moat (yes, a moat) in Northwest Austin, a sky bridge to a boat dock on Lake LBJ, a lazy-river bridge to a private island, and a wooden footbridge over a ravine in Wimberley that is almost exactly my grandparents’ bridge into the woods, forty-some years later and about an hour down the road. The list is live from the MLS, most expensive first, so prices stay current and when one of these sells it drops off and the next verified bridge home takes its place.

4625 Rockcliff RD, Austin TX 78746 4 bd · 6 ba · 5,275 sqft $19,000,000 8209 Two Coves DR, Austin TX 78730 4 bd · 6 ba · 6,153 sqft $7,300,000 140 Riverbend, Kingsland TX 78639 6 bd · 5 ba · 4,186 sqft $3,875,000 1104 Impala DR, Granite Shoals TX 78654 5 bd · 6 ba · 3,561 sqft $3,200,000 510 Blanco River Ranch RD, San Marcos TX 78666 4 bd · 5 ba · 4,200 sqft $1,699,990 2800 River RD, Wimberley TX 78676 5 bd · 4 ba · 2,658 sqft $1,390,000 1610 County Road 463, Elgin TX 78621 3 bd · 3 ba · 2,799 sqft $999,500 2803 Manitou DR, Austin TX 78734 2 bd · 2 ba · 1,638 sqft $995,000 631 Lakeside DR, Wimberley TX 78676 3 bd · 2 ba · 1,404 sqft $899,994

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So, About That Bridge

I started this as a joke and somewhere around the moat I stopped joking. If a home with a bridge (or a moat, or a lazy-river island, that exists too) is speaking to you the way that Wimberley footbridge spoke to me, I know every one of these listings and I am happy to walk you through them, or go find you one that has not hit the list yet. Reach out here and let’s talk about your bridge. I promise not to make it weird. No promises about the moat.