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Splash into adventure with a Highland Lakes holiday

June 15, 2017 | By Melissa Gaskill

The Hill Country around Lake Buchanan and Inks Lake is one of my favorite parts of the world.

9 Divine Hill Country Hikes

October 14, 2016 | By Eric W. Pohl

In the Texas Hill Country, the flat Gulf Coastal plains to the east and the Texas brush country to the south collide with the Balcones Escarpment—a conspicuous topographic demarcation that nearly bisects the state from Del Rio northwest past Waco. West of the escarpment, which roughly parallels Interstate 35 in Central Texas, a land of contrasts presents itself as soaring limestone bluffs, rugged hills, and steep canyons.

A Place of Refuge

August 1, 2016 | By Dale Weisman

From a limestone precipice at the crest of the Rimrock Trail, I catch my breath and gaze across an unspoiled vestige of the Texas Hill Country.

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