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GRANITE SHOALS, Texas

"Your Gateway to Lake LBJ", "City of Parks"

REFERENCES

LAKE RESORT: this city is popular with lake enthusiasts with its 19 city parks, most of which are located on Lake Lyndon B. Johnson. See www.graniteshoals.org/parks

NEARBY & HILL COUNTRY-WIDE ATTRACTIONS: See Attractions.

BLUFFTON: LCRA PARK; LAKE BUCHANAN (Bluffton)

BURNET: AUSTIN STEAM TRAIN ASSOCIATION'S "HILL COUNTRY FLYER"; HIGHLAND LAKES AIR MUSEUM; FORT CROGHAN; DELAWARE SPRINGS GOLF COURSE (Burnet)

COTTONWOOD SHORES: THE HILL COUNTRY THEATRE (Cottonwood Shores)

HORSESHOE BAY: GRANITE BEACH RECREATION AREA; MARRIOTT RESORT & GOLF COURSES (Horseshoe Bay)

KINGSLAND: FALKENSTEIN CASTLE; INKS LAKE STATE PARK; INKS LAKE DAM NATIONAL FISH HATCHERY; LONGHORN CAVERN STATE PARK; BUCHANAN DAM; GOLF COURSES; PACKSADDLE MOUNTAIN; HISTORIC RAIL YARD COMPLEX (Kingsland)

LAKE BUCHANAN AREA: BUCHANAN DAM & MUSEUM & VISITOR CENTER; VANISHING TEXAS RIVER CRUISE; CANYON OF THE EAGLES LODGE & NATURE PARK; STATE & LCRA PARKS (Buchanan Dam)

MARBLE FALLS: LAKE LBJ; LAKE MARBLE FALLS; HISTORIC MAIN STREET DISTRICT; FALLS ON THE COLORADO MUSEUM; FOX MEMORIAL MARKER & PANORAMIC VIEW; SWEET BERRY FARM; MARBLE FALLS HISTORIC TRAIN DEPOT & CHAMBER VISITOR CENTER; GRANITE MOUNTAIN/COLD SPRING TEXAS GRANITE COMPANY (Marble Falls)

TOW: FALL CREEK VINEYARDS/WINERY; LAKE BUCHANAN (Tow)

EVENT CALENDAR: See Chamber web site shown above.

Sep: Fall Festival

MAPS: Google, GeoHack

HISTORY: Handbook of Texas Online: "It takes its name from the granite shoals that were evident on the Colorado River before the construction of Wirtz Dam and Lake Granite Shoals (later Lake Lyndon B. Johnson). Granite Shoals was developed as a lake resort but became an incorporated community in the 1960s. Its population doubled from 300 in the late 1960s to 634 in the early 1980s and again by 1990 to 1,378. By 2000 the population was 2,040."

OTHER PROFILES: Wikipedia; ePodunk Profile; City Data; Texas Escapes; Travel Texas (not available)

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WEATHER: Weather Underground

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