as seen by spy satellites so you can get a mental picture of where you'll be picking and grinning and picnicking. It's 32 acres and to walk the boundaries would be a little more than a mile. I know because I built most of that mile of fence by hand. A mile doesn't sound like much until you pound an endless number of posts into the rock and run five stands, five miles, of barbwire. :) The road leading in is a grassy/dirt road that's a little bumpy but it's good. The maps in the very first posts at the bottom of this blog will give you driving instructions to this spot on Farm To Market 1102 and then there will be a sign on the road that marks the turn. A landmark across the street is a Store Haus storage place (it's the white building right below the F in FM-1102 in the photo above). Anyway, I hope this aerial photo makes you think about bringing your hiking boots. It's a forest of huge elm and oak right on one of the first rises of the hill country. These very acres, because the creek and the flint was right at the edge of the ridge, was a big Indian spot. It's also right on the original King's Highway. This little dot on the map has had it's place in Texas history. People have meet here before. You'll be pleasantly surprised by how cool it is.
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instructions on parking?
Jim is really opinionated about that, I'll let her answer that one.
There's plenty of parking on the sides of the roads. If you are camping, we like for you to unload and then move the car so the area doesn't look like a parking lot, but you can keep the car near the campsite if it's really important to you. (frowned upon by Jimmie)
If we have a huge turnout and our 32 acres can't hold all the cars, there's lots of room in front of our fence line along 1102 (Hunter Road) If we get the tractor going we can mow plenty of parking in the grassy area aroung the pond.
Please do not park IN the pond unless you drive an Amphicar).
The map is great, but the photo was taken not long after we cleared all the cedar off the flood plain below the ridge. It's really grown up since then but there's tons of cactus and sticker trees down there, so unless it gets mowed, I'd avoid it.
Stick to the woods.
looks cooler than Yasger's farm, that was just an empty field :) :)
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