Throughout the town’s center, shops and cafés are thriving. Beyond the boots and the town’s emerging art colony, you’ll find restaurants, shops, and even a zipline operation to give you a bird’s-eye view of all the surrounding beauty.

“We received a little bit of damage, but it was nothing we couldn’t fix,” says Amanda McAlpin, a multi-tasker at Wimberley Zipline Adventures, who tells me that the guides keep guests “entertained while we inform them about the hillsides, our ranch, and the environment.” The course includes 10 separate ziplines; together, they stretch for about a mile over the cypress-studded, hilly expanse known to most locals as the Wimberley Valley.

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