King Ranch Airport

The airport was a private aerodrome located on private property. The closure was the result of a land-use change by the property owner, who converted the airstrip back into cultivated farmland. This is a common reason for the closure of private airstrips, often driven by economic factors (value of farmland vs. cost of maintaining a runway), sale of the property, or the owner no longer having a need for the facility.

The site of the former King Ranch Airport is now an active agricultural field. The land where the runway once existed has been fully reclaimed for farming and is regularly plowed and cultivated. On current satellite views, the faint, straight-line outline of the former runway can sometimes be discerned within the crop patterns, but there are no remaining airport infrastructure or markings.

King Ranch Airport was a private, unregistered aerodrome, not a public airport. Its identifier, CA-0161, was assigned for tracking purposes but does not denote a certified airport. Its significance was purely local, serving the private aviation needs of the ranch's owner and likely a few other local pilots with permission. Operations would have been limited to small, single-engine general aviation aircraft such as Cessnas or Pipers, suitable for landing on a grass strip. It did not handle commercial, military, or scheduled passenger operations.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the airport. The land has been fundamentally repurposed for agriculture. Given that the general aviation needs of the High River community are served by the nearby High River Airport (CEN4), there is no practical or economic incentive to re-establish a private airstrip at this location. Reopening would require the landowner to cease farming operations and invest in re-certifying the strip, which is highly improbable.