El Rancho Cima

Conservation Effort Preserves Scenic Hill Country Site Along the Blanco River

November 20, 2019 | By Melissa Gaskill

The Nature Conservancy and Hays County are purchasing 530 acres of the former El Rancho Cima Boy Scout Camp—a scenic Hill Country site along the sparkling Blanco River 18 miles west of San Marcos—with plans to manage the land as a nature park.

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