Bandera, When we hear that tour buses are bringing people to spend a day in the Bandera Hill Country, we know that, depending on the changeable weather, the day will be characterized by a crystalline high-country stillness, or it will whisper mistily of southern hollows and Irish hillsides. For situated as it is near historian Walter Prescott Webb’s famous dividing between dry, east and wets, the Bandera Hill Country in the 98th Meridian, is changeable and full of surprises. Trees grow here: the shiny madrona which belongs in the western Sierra Madre; the wild cherry and black haw which belong in the deep South; the streamside sycamores. Mesquites edge in from the lower country. Bald cypress trees march in their gallery forests along permanent creeks and rivers. Ringtails (animals that look like a cross between cats and raccoons) hang in trees at night. It has been long rumored that a black

mountain lion lives over in the back of Lost Valley. Some people claim to have seen alligators in the Medina River, and as recently as a decade or so ago, bears in the remote hill in big ranches down by Medina Lake.

Bandera Map    

Bandera GPS Coordinates

(29.730396,-99.069901)