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formerly Aquarena Center
Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Nature center, springs, wetlands, glass bottomed boats on Spring Lake.
The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, formerly Aquarena Springs and later the Aquarena Center, is an educational center in San Marcos, Texas. It seeks to preserve the unique archeological and biological resources of Spring Lake.
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Small museum about the 36th president of the USA.
When the old dam was nearing collapse, the city decided to replace it with an artificial whitewater course. The new addition to the park has made it tremendously popular with swimmers, tubers, and boaters alike. There are also rope swings, good picnic areas, and a great playground just up the river.
This former jail turned U.S.O. center for Black WWII servicemen is now a museum about African American history of the area.
A cave and theme park. With a train. This is a tectonic cave', a rare type of cave formed by shifting plates beneath the earth's surface. There are no stagmites or stalagmites in a tectonic cave.
Similar to access points along the San Marcos River, this is a popular swimming and wading area as well, but on the Blanco River a few miles to the north.