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Longhorn Caverns

While it can't boast a big, color-light show or eerie mood music like some of our nearby commercial caverns, Longhorn is the king of them all. A long-ago outlaw hideaway and Confederate gunpowder keg, this treasure was unearthed of its Freetail pals and turned into a public attraction in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), one of FDR's New Deal programs that developed many of our state parks. Currently, the park has an exhibit honoring the CCC; the caverns are the site of the annual reunion of their shrinking ranks.

Longhorn Caverns
6211 Park Road 4 S., Burnet, 877/441-2283
www.longhorncaverns.com