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During a recent bout of cabin fever, I headed west, bound for a landscape of limestone cliffs and prickly pear along an iconic Texas river. After only about forty minutes on the road, I arrived not at Big Bend National Park but at Milton Reimers Ranch Park the largest park in Travis County, occupying more than 2,400 acres of the Texas Hill Country along three miles of the Pedernales River shoreline.
Reimers is just a stone’s throw from the Texanist-endorsed, but currently inaccessible, Hamilton Pool, where swimming is prohibited because of COVID-19. Speaking of stone-throwing, a highlight of my trip was pausing for a midhike granola bar and hunting for the perfect rock to skip across the lazy Pedernales. Although I wasn’t brave enough to take a dip, the shallow river is perfect for a socially distanced swim during warmer months.