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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.
Rio Vista Dam is a dam on the San Marcos River in San Marcos, Texas. The flood of 1998 badly damaged the dam.
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This former jail turned U.S.O. center for Black WWII servicemen is now a museum about African American history of the area.
Small museum about the 36th president of the USA.
formerly Aquarena Center
Nature center, springs, wetlands, glass bottomed boats on Spring Lake.
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.