The places that don't make you apologize for the kids. Restaurants with crayons that aren't an afterthought, parks with shade and bathrooms, the ice-cream stop with the line on a hot Tuesday.
A local weekend-morning favorite for homemade baked goods, eggs benedict, and chicken and waffles, with a second location on the lake's north side.
A 64-acre gorge carved in three days when floodwater topped the emergency spillway for the first time on July 4, 2002, at 67,000 cubic feet per second — exposing 110-million-year-old Cretaceous limestone, fossils, and dinosaur tracks. The Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority runs guided and self-guided walking tours by reservation.