0 Alderman Rd This 79 acre property on Alderman Road sits five minutes from the city limits of Athens, Ohio and overlooks the Hocking River Valley from a hardwood ridge. The current owner is a successful trial lawyer who has spent 27 years harvesting giant Ohio whitetails, with eight gross Boone and Crockett bucks and a long list of Pope and Young animals to his name. He identified this tract after a two year search for a parcel with the right mix of mature hardwoods, ridge top openings, and young clearcuts that hold deer. He purchased the property in the spring of 2025 and immediately went to work building it into a turnkey hunting operation. The maintained gas line that runs along the main ridge was frost seeded into a long food plot by Matt Stuart, one of the best food plot farmers in the area, and the plot produced outstanding results despite the 2025 drought. Other sections of the pipeline corridor were left alone to provide browse, bedding, and waist high cover, with the gas company mowing every two years to keep heavy woody growth from taking over. Roughly 20 acres of four year old clearcuts run through the middle of the property, providing the thick browse and bedding cover that holds bucks year round. The owner hired Grant Fox of Eden Outdoors to cut forestry mulcher travel lanes through these clearcuts, connecting hardwood blocks and opening natural corridors that deer immediately started using. Three stand locations were designed and built around these travel corridors, each with the right wind setup for serious hunting. The main ridge and the surrounding hardwoods are filled with mature oaks and some pines, and no timbering has been done, so the future owner has the option to leave the woods alone or develop a timber management plan. The property had been leased to an outfitter for several years prior to 2024 and clients harvested multiple trophy deer during that time. Athens County experienced an EHD outbreak in 2024 and 2025, and while this property fared better than surrounding areas, the herd is in a recovery phase that is expected to produce Ohio giants in the next few years along with strong turkey numbers. The 2025 season was rested with no hunting allowed, and the owner and one of his employees patrolled the farm weekly to make sure neighbors honored the same off limits status the parcel has held for over 30 years. From a non hunting perspective, this is a solid legacy property with a strong homesite location above the main paved road, providing utilities at the road, privacy, and long views of wildlife out the back door. The homesite is positioned so the prevailing winds do not push scent from the cabin or home back into the core hunting area. Easy ridge top access from the east makes this property simple to hunt, manage, and develop. All mineral rights transfer with the sale. With Ohio University and the city of Athens just five minutes away and Hocking Hills State Park roughly 30 miles southwest, this property combines serious wildlife habitat with the convenience of a university town and the recreation pull of southeast Ohio. Ohio Land for Sale Details: • Total Acreage: 79 acres +/- • Address: 0 Alderman Road, Dover Township, OH 45761 • County: Athens County, Ohio • Parcel Number: G010010002000 • Township: Dover Township • School District: Federal Hocking Local Schools • Coordinates: 39.3796 N, 82.0979 W • Utilities: Electric at the road, well and septic needed • Annual Taxes: TBD • Mineral Rights: All mineral rights transfer with the sale • Terrain: Hardwood ridges, ridge top food plot corridor, and 20 acres of four year old clearcuts with forestry mulcher cut travel lanes • Timber: Mature oaks and some pines, no recent timbering, owner option to manage or leave intact • Wildlife: Documented trophy whitetail history, strong turkey population, wildlife corridor connectivity within the broader Wayne National Forest region • Improvements: Frost seeded ridge top food plot farmed by Matt Stuart, forestry mulcher travel