The Maverick Grotto

Colorado Bend State Park, Texas

This group of photos is from various caver camping areas around the park.

There is no public caving on the park. To enter caves, one must be an attendee of the volunteer project or go on a fee based guided wild cave tour offered by TPWD. For more information, visit the link below.

www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/colorado/

Map to Park

Pictures taken by Butch Fralia using both film and digital cameras. Photo credits for other photographers will be given for the individual photo.

All photos are © The Maverick Grotto and the respective photographer
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The current project began in November of 1987, cavers started camping on the Colorado River at Spicewood Creek before the park was open. Keith Heuss 11/87	Time has seen cavers camp in a number of areas and evolve from primitive tent campers to trailer campers.	Over time, the trailers even got bigger even if some come from antiquity.

Having a trailer wasn't a bad thing in February 2004.	Having a dry place to cook a meal on a cold wet evening isn't a bad thing either.	Cooking after a long day on the caving trail. Food cooked outside always tastes better.

Jody Horton's safari trailer provides the best of both worlds.	Jan and Mica Fell have a campsite more typical of cavers.	As does Scott Boyd.

Eric Flint borrowed a camper to try out for a weekend.	An old dump by the camping area, this was once the shower house at Gorman Falls Camp.	A lot of new friendships have been formed at CBSP caver camp.

Jim Kennedy gets his gear together for the days caving trip. Cat Kennedy	Jody Horton atop his safari trailer. Cat Kennedy	Jody Horton (L) and Eric Flint hanging out. Cat Kennedy

This page last updated August 16, 2008