Your Guide To Marble Falls, Burnet, Kingsland, Llano, Spicewood, Horseshoe Bay, and ALL of the Highland Lakes.
Tour 135 feet deep into the earth at Longhorn Cavern State Park in Burnet County. The limestone cave is filled with minerals, including smooth dolomite and glittering calcite crystals. Lighting throughout the tour illuminates colorful striations and dripping stalactites. With Read more…
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Selecting a place to eat in the Highland Lakes is like reading a “choose-your-own-adventure” book where all the stories end with full stomachs. You can select the seafood restaurant or the classic fast-food burger. You can choose Asian, Mexican, or Read more…
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Wildflowers and bluebonnets engulf Kingsland every spring, giving us a nearly two-month window to enjoy their beauty. You can follow my wildflower tour of Kingsland beginning in Llano and heading toward Kingsland on Texas 29 and then south on RR Read more…
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Spend the night in a treehouse after ziplining through a canopy of trees at Cypress Valley. In 1998, entrepreneurs David and Amy Beilharz sold their home in Austin and bought 88 acres of undeveloped land in Spicewood. After raising their Read more…
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MARBLE FALLS — “It’s time of year again?” Marble Falls Post Office mailman Sal Castro said as he was presented with the Locals Love Us award for the Marble Falls area’s favorite postal worker. Castro has been the area’s favorite Read more…
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MARBLE FALLS — When it comes to volunteering, Penny Mills has only one reason for doing it. “I just like to help people,” she said. It’s really that simple. Her generosity of giving her own time up to help people Read more…
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KINGSLAND — When Packsaddle Elementary School physical education teacher Misti Atkinson starts class, she often finds herself looking into the eyes of 50 elementary school students. Well, they’re not all looking at her. “There are a lot of distractions, even Read more…
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KINGSLAND — Though it’s her first year as Kingsland School principal, Meloni Puishes has already created a positive, yet challenging, atmosphere, one in which students and teachers feel supported as well as loved. As a class of kindergartners was heading Read more…
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SPICEWOOD — Terry Krause and his brothers, Hugh and David, have carried on a tradition their parents started more than 50 years ago: Providing a natural waterway retreat that attracts residents as well as visitors from around the world. “The Read more…
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MARBLE FALLS — Johnson Park is once again the Marble Falls area’s Best Park in The Picayune’s Locals Love Us contest. It’s not resting on its laurels. Plans are in the works to make it even better. Recently, the city Read more…
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