water, and electricity at the campsites, be an hour or less from Austin, and have beautiful scenery. No place fills the bill better than the former cattle ranch now called Pedernales Falls State Park.

Longhorn Cavern State Park, Pedernales Falls State Park, Inks Lake State Park, and Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge. Proposition 5, passed by Texas voters in 2019, was a ...