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Things to Do With Kids in the Texas Hill Country
Looking for something to do with the kids? Check out these children-friendly and family friendly activities and venues in Canyon Lake, New Braunfels, Fredericksburg, Wimberley, and Gruene, Texas. From water sports and splash pads to hiking and child friendly restaurants, we’ve got you covered.
Restaurants with Play Areas or Playgrounds for Kids
Nature Trails Safe for Children
Children’s Zip Lining
Water Parks & Splash Pads for Kids
Family Friendly Pubs
Child Friendly Wineries
Field Trip Ideas
Weekend Road Trip Ideas for Families
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Do you have any ideas you’d like us to add to our page? We’d love to share your tips! Get in touch with us to spread the word about your awesome family vacation in the hill country. Have a kid-friendly restaurant or business? Please let us know so we can help you spread the word!
Lifelong Canyon Lake resident Cassidy Cade says the concoctions she whips up at Candy Mountain Shaved Ice, located across the street from Mountain Valley Middle School, aren’t just for kids. There’s the state trooper who ...
Kids! Follow in the steps of prehistoric giants who once roamed Canyon Lake at a series of summer camps scheduled from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. June 4, June 11, June 18, June 25 and ...
Comal County Sheriff Mark Reynolds and Comal ISD Supt. Andrew Kim made a “tough call” and canceled the 2021 Junior Deputy Academy (JDA) scheduled for this summer. The announcement was made April 5 on social ...
Canyon Lake’s Heritage Museum of the Texas Hill Country hosts its first Fossil Ridge Tour at 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23. Two, one-hour tours begin at 1 and 2 p.m. Fossil Ridge Tours also are ...
Load up family and friends and enjoy a live nativity drive-thru at the Community Resource and Recreation Center of Canyon Lake (CRRC)’s new building, 1917 FM 2673 in Sattler. The holiday event is scheduled from ...
Chabad of San Marcos and Texas State University host New Braunfels’ first menorah lighting today at 5 p.m. at the Main Plaza, 301 Main Plaza, New Braunfels. The ceremony is open to both Jews and ...
Bring the believers to VFW Post 8800 in Startzville from noon to 2 p.m. this Saturday for a visit with Santa Claus. Children will receive a gift, cookies, candy and drinks. Parents get to take ...
Load up family and friends and enjoy a live nativity drive-thru at the Community Resource and Recreation Center of Canyon Lake (CRRC)’s new building, 1917 FM 2673 in Sattler. The holiday event is scheduled from ...
Bring your kids to trick-or-treat from 5 to 7 p.m. today along FM 2673 in Sattler. The event is sponsored by area businesses and community members who will distribute candy to litte trick-or-treaters at various ...
Halloween’s a bit tricky this year thanks to COVID-19 but kids can still enjoy all of the traditional treats from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Friday at Guadalupe Canoe Livery in Spring Branch. The family event ...
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, popularly known as WIC, will provide monthly food packages at the Community Resource and Recreation Center of Canyon Lake (CRRC) from 9 a.m. to 3 ...
No, they don’t have to find a book to read over Spring Break. Tye Preston Memorial Library, 16311 South Access Rd., Canyon Lake, hosts several hands-on activities for students over Spring Break next week. All ...
They won’t fit in plastic pumpkin containers, but coats, jackets, hoodies and sweaters provided by the Coat Rack Ministry are definitely on the treat list for Canyon Lake kids making the rounds in downtown Sattler ...
Turkeys to Tables fundraiser for Community Resource and Recreation Center of Canyon Lake (CRRC) kicks off at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Canyon Lake Presbyterian, 230 Shepherd Hill, with live music by Larry Read, Frito pies ...
There’s still time to enroll students in third grade and up for Comal County 4-H summer camps, sponsored by Texas A&M Agrilife Extension, 325 Resource Dr., New Braunfels. Register campers in the Extension Office 30 ...
Landa Park Aquatic Complex, 360 Aquatic Circle in New Braunfels, opens weekends in May through June 6, when summer season begins. To see hours of operation and admission fees, click here. To enroll in aquatic ...
One hundred million years ago, Texas and most of what is the central part of North America was a shallow sea with an abundance of sea and animal life. Located in the beautiful Canyon Lake ...
Award-winning Canyon Lake author and Oklahoma Choctaw Tim Tingle will receive the Oklahoma Center for the Book’s 2018 Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement award this Saturday, April 7 at the Oklahoma Book Awards banquet in Oklahoma ...
While away the summer hours at the pride of New Braunfels, Landa Park, a 196-acre natural park near the center of the city. Picnic under the shade of giant, ancient oak trees. Walk or jog ...
There are many things to do this summer at Tye Preston Memorial Library -- and many of them have little to do with boo
Discover a world of art and creativity, science and technology, culture, health and history. Welcome to the McKenna Children’s Museum a collection of educational exhibits designed to stimulate learning and encourage imagination. McKenna developed this ...
The New Braunfels Railroad Museum is located—as one might expect—adjacent to the railroad tracks on West San Antonio Street. Within the museum is a variety of artifacts and historical photographs from the golden age of ...
Don’t visit Canyon Lake without seeing one of the world’s premier caverns, Natural Bridge Caverns. See what millions of others have seen—an incredible underground world of natural beauty. The 75-minute Discovery Tour travels through a ...
Here’s where adventure beckons. It’s the inquisitive gaze of the 20-foot-tall reticulated giraffes that greet visitors at Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch—and the “oohhhhs and ahhhhs” it creates throughout the vehicle—that has made the ranch one ...
If it’s fun on the river you seek, find it at one of six Rockin’ R locations along the Guadalupe and Comal Rivers. The full-service purveyor provides river equipment rentals (toobs, rafts, SUPs, party barges); ...
Come to scenic New Braunfels and stay where you play at this whimsical theme resort, located within the sprawling Schlitterbahn Waterpark in New Braunfels. The wide variety of accommodations sleep from 2 up to 16 and ...
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Owner Cassidy Cade likens herself to a bartender, whipping up various combinations of flavors, creams, toppings and candies at Candy Mountain, which mother Pat Cade opened 21 years ago.
Cool Off at Canyon Lake's Candy Mountain Shaved Ice | My Canyon Lake
Candy Mountain Shaved Ice in Canyon Lake serves thousands of uniquely flavored treats to customers old and young.Still slow.
Are the Canyon Lake Boat Ramps Open? | My Canyon Lake
Are the Canyon Lake Boat Ramps Open? | My Canyon Lake
'Are the boat ramps open?' is the number-one question asked by both residents and visitors alike. The answer? Yes -- unless it floods or drought persists.