GILLESPIE COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — One billion years ago, magma bubbled up through seven miles of the Earth, breaking the surface and eventually cooling into a 640 acre-wide dome that rises 1,825 feet ...

Climbing to the top of Enchanted Rock is a long-held Texas rite of passage. “It’s a badge of honor; it’s like climbing 40 flights of stairs. It’s not the easiest thing,” Doug Cochran, superintendent ...

The November day had dawned chilly and damp, the sun bundled in gray cloud banks. Now, in the early afternoon, the air has warmed only a few degrees, and a persistent mist slicks the limestone—horrid ...

One such tale claims that eerie sounds emanating from the giant pink dome would frighten the Tonkawa Indians. However, geologists have confirmed that those sounds are the result of the granite ...

Enchanted Rock State Natural Area 16710 Ranch Road 965, Fredericksburg, (830) 685-3636, tpwd.texas.gov Climbing the pink granite dome of Enchanted Rock is a local right of passage for local outdoors ...

Is it a hallowed place or a haunted one? Blessed or cursed? What you believe about Enchanted Rock depends on which of its many legends you adhere to. This much everyone agrees on: That rock makes ...