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Texas Hill Country with kids, realistically
Natural Bridge Caverns and a drive-through wildlife ranch sit beside each other off I-35 and pair into one day. Tubing the Comal in New Braunfels is shorter, calmer and better for younger children than the Guadalupe. Enchanted Rock's summit is a 425-foot climb over bare granite that radiates heat, which is punishing for small legs after mid-morning in summer.
What's actually worth your time in Texas Hill Country
Enchanted Rock is the landmark, a pink granite dome charging eight dollars for adults with under-twelves free, open from half past six in the morning, and it turns cars away when the lot fills, so reserve a day pass online. The LBJ Ranch at Stonewall charges nothing but needs a free driving permit from the state park visitor centre on Highway 290. Luckenbach is a dance hall and a post office.
When the weather turns in Texas Hill Country
Caverns are the answer here, holding near seventy degrees regardless of what the sky does: Natural Bridge, Cascade near Boerne, and Longhorn Cavern in Burnet. The Pacific War museum is a genuine half-day indoors. The serious point is that Hill Country rain causes flash flooding, and low water crossings here go from dry to lethal in minutes, so never drive into moving water.
Texas Hill Country's museums, and which one to pick
Several Fredericksburg blocks around the Nimitz Hotel, the steamboat-shaped building run by Chester Nimitz's grandfather, are given over to the National Museum of the Pacific War, the only museum in the continental United States devoted solely to the Pacific theatre. It holds a Japanese midget submarine recovered from Pearl Harbor and a combat zone where volunteers stage live-fire demonstrations. The Pioneer Museum covers the German settlers' Sunday Houses.
What to eat in Texas Hill Country
Two traditions collide here. German settlement left sausage, schnitzel and biergartens along Fredericksburg's Main Street. Central Texas barbecue is the stronger claim: post-oak-smoked brisket sold by the pound on butcher paper at Cooper's in Llano, where you pick your meat from the open pit outside, and at the Lockhart houses the legislature named the state barbecue capital. Gillespie County peaches ripen May to July.