Yesterday was a beautiful, sunny, 68 degree day and we spent a few hours of it on the Homestead Trail at McKinney Falls State Park. It had been just over a week since our last hike and it felt so good! The park is out of the city but still in Austin so a nice place for folks here to go for a good walk and swim in the summer as it is open to swimming and there are some natural swimming pools there:
Onion Creek runs across natural limestone shelves and flows into this "swimming pool" at Lower McKinney Falls
In the 1840's, the McKinney's built a house on this property out of the nearby limestone:
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| the house burned in the 1940's |
Thomas McKinney took advantage of Onion Creek and build a grist mill to grind flour:
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| remains of the grist mill |
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| another view of the swimming pool and beach area |
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| turtles basking in the sun |
We will go back to McKinney Falls
to do the Upper Falls before we
leave for sure!
What a beautiful hike! Can't wait to see it in March! I'll try to remember to compare the water level then with your shots now!
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