Established in 1977, Hill Country Youth Ranch is a non-profit charitable corporation licensed by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to provide long-term therapeutic care for abused and orphaned children at all levels of trauma and need. There are few places on earth that can match the breath-taking beauty of Big Springs Ranch. Known as “the country of 1100 springs”, the Ranch existed for centuries as home to Native Americans, and eventually to European pioneers. Its most recent purpose is a tribute to the visionary who saw its possibilities for children and dreamed a dream that in the end came true.