'Dillo - 11/87 Keith Heuss

Trail to the Spicewood Creek blue hole - well worth the walk.

A favorite spot for all park visitors, the Spicewood Creek blue hole is spring fed with about the same water temperature year round.

Park visitors on the trail for a guided tour of Gorman Cave. Gorman Cave is one of the most well known caves in Texas.

Ed Young leads a Gorman Cave tour in 1993. This wild tour sans lights and trails has been popular since that time.

Formation in Gorman Cave with new calcite deposits after a heavy rain.

This ceiling fissure in Gorman Cave is the home for a bat colony. Tours are limited during the spring while the bats are birthing and nursing.

Scenic views are common on the park.

Blue Bonnets in the spring time.

With 380 Caves and Karst features inside the 5,000 acre park boundary, you might notice an entrance or two.

Perhaps even an entrance or three.

The property has a lot of interesting history from cedar mining, old railroads to when it was a fishing camp. This man dug feature known as the lower gold mine predates the previous owners.

Much to his surprise, the previous owner Tolle Lemons discovered the Lower Gold Mine after a cedar burn.  No one knows if it ever produced or what it was dug for.

Another interesting feature (seen on the hiking trail to Gorman Cave) is the Upper Gold Mine.  It actually produced trace amounts of gold circa 1955.

This rock crusher base and the mine are that's left from the mining operation.  It was operated by a mining company from Lampasas.