New 11-acre wildlife preserve blooms in pristine Hill Country setting

Nestled in a pocket of tiny towns with cute geological names — Marble Falls, Granite Shoals — Horseshoe Bay merges luxury into some of the first real wilderness outside Central Texas cities. While most Hill Country day trips bring travelers straight west, Horseshoe Bay brings them through a less traversed path, roughly 90 miles north of San Antonio, up the swerving bends of the Colorado River, eventually pooling into Lake Lyndon B. Johnson. In this…