Backroads of Texas by Larry Hodge & Ed Syers

Author:Larry Hodge & Ed Syers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Published: 2000-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

South of La Grange your road travels scenic country, climbing from the Colorado River through great live oaks.

Schulenburg, 91 m.—see Tour 20.

Hallettsville, 108 m.—see Tour 21.

Victoria, 153 m. Enter Region III, South Texas. See Tour 33. Your road continues south as Tour 37.

TOUR 30

I-35

Temple-Belton, Salado, Austin, San Antonio, 149 m.

Your southward interstate route continues on its way from the Red River and the metroplex of Dallas-Fort Worth, eventually to Laredo’s Mexican border—this leg being the most scenic of that journey. From Temple to San Antonio you run along the foot of Texas “Hill Country”—that low, gray-green wall rising abruptly west marks the eroded edge of a plateau; your road travels atop the Balcones Fault, which quaked and created the escarpment. The hilly wall is particularly noticeable from Austin through New Braunfels, for those cities nestle against their hills.

In pioneer days, these ramparts marked the edge of Comancheria, and down from them those horsemen loosed bloody raids on the settlements along this route. Later, the level going below the hills directed a natural route for the first northbound cattle trails. Today, as you did coming down I-35 from the north, you travel from city to city.

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