Barton Creek

On our way back from the butterfly Ranch, we saw a sign to Barton Creek, where there is a We decided to go down the road. The first road seemed in poor condition from rain and clay and so we decided to turn around. A few miles down the main road there was another road to Barton Creek so we decided to try that one. A couple of miles down the road there was a fork and it said one way involved river crossing and the other way was the “dry road” so we went that way. It turns out that way lead me to the scariest road I had ever driven down in my life. It was basically super skinny all rocks and extremely steep. Anyway, we made it hooray! There was a restaurant, but it was closed. However there was a young man sitting there and he asked if we would like to go on a tour and we said yes. When we said we came from the dry road his eyes bugged out. Apparently the website tells you to take the river crossing way. But we’d just decided to head there in a lark. As luck would have it, we would be the last group of people who could go into the cave in a canoe to see some Mayan artifacts that day.Read more