Destinations · Texas Hill Country Travel

8 destinations

Gillespie County

German roots, a Main Street of biergartens and shops, and the gateway to Texas wine country. The unofficial capital of the Hill Country.

Llano & Gillespie

A massive pink granite batholith that hums and ticks as it cools at night. Climb it by day, then stay for some of the darkest skies in Texas.

Hays County

An arts town built around water — Jacob’s Well, Blue Hole, and the Cypress Creek. Market days, galleries, and the bluest swimming in Texas.

Comal County

A 19th-century river town wrapped around the oldest dance hall in Texas, with the Guadalupe and the spring-fed Comal running right past the door.

Bandera County

The self-proclaimed Cowboy Capital of the World — dude ranches, honky-tonks, and trail rides along the Medina River.

Burnet County

A chain of dammed Colorado-River lakes ringed by granite hills — boating, lakeside dining, and the spring carpet of bluebonnets at Muleshoe Bend.

Blanco County

Boyhood home of a president and the Texas White House. In December the whole town lights up; in spring the roadsides run blue with wildflowers.

Travis County

A collapsed grotto where a 50-foot waterfall spills into a jade-green pool. Reserve ahead — this is the most-photographed swimming hole in Texas.

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