Texas Hill Country Tour

Gate built over trail entrance

There are a number of closed electronic gates (waypoints in photos) these gates can be opened by simply pressing the green button on the keypad (picture attached). These gates close automatically.

Great trail. There are a couple of livestock gates on CR's but they are not locked just make sure and close them. There is a locked gate on CR 410. See my attached photo for the detour route that I used. I did the route from Fredricksburg to Rock Springs and camped at Los Rios in Wood Camp. Highly recommend.

Lots of purple markings. Take trail at your own risk.

Did the most western leg of the route. Started in Leakey and modified the route slightly. Half on half off-road. Water crossings weren’t too deep but would recommend minimum a stock SUV for those

Traveled the Junction to Barksdale route. A bit of loose rock but nothing a stock Ford Edge can’t handle. We passed one other overlander on the trail.

Made a custom route using the app. Mostly country roads, lots of bump gated, cattle and some fun river crossings. Nothing really difficult and definitely tons of stuff to see. Take the time to get off your vehicle and explore around.

Just did the loop around to Fredericksburg. Some vehicles were out there but probably lived in the area. Roads were clear and open. Easy drive. Mostly paved.

There was a gate that blocked the county road. We had to back up on the trail and take the ranch road in order to continue.

We drove from Rocksprings to Barksdale. Amazing drive. We took our time. It's about 45 miles and it took us an easy 3 hours. LOTs of bump gates. Even saw a kangaroo, if you can believe it. Amazing views. Terrain changes 2 or 3 times. I recommend you drive it from Rocksprings down. It just gets better as you go. Easy drive. Several river crossings. Nothing difficult. Never even thought about 4wd.

We rode the trail exactly as seen on OnX from Rocksprings, through Barksdale to Junction and camped in Schreiner Park for night one. We continued onwards on day 2 and got off the trail at James River Road, crossing the river twice and setting up camp near Dos Rios RV Park. We went through about 4-5 water crossings in total with the max being near a foot of standing water. This is mainly gravel maintained roads with some portions of asphalt driving. None of the offroading was difficult but it was super dusty and there were portions of washboard. We had to go through what seemed to be over 30 gates in total. It feels like you are trespassing but it is a public county road as long as you stay on the bounds of the road. Most all gates were bump gates we had to manually push open. We had no issues at all with the locals who lived back there. We caught tons of fish and had a great time. I only engaged 4x4 once to get to our campsite on day 2. All the trail I covered could be done in 2wd.

Saw a report that this was closed, so we drove it to check. It was open and nothing has changed. Private property signs on the side are for the sides, not the County Road. Just leave gates exactly how you found them.

Drove from Lower Crabapple Rd to Cherry Spring Rd by US-87. Nice scenery and some lifestock on a mostly paved road all across. Nothing difficult about the ride.

I drove from Rocksprings to Barksdale. the first half of the drive is just ranch roads. There were about 10 bump gates. One gate has a private property sign on it. I ignored this because this is a county road. I saw someone else in a jeep who ignored it too. The second half was pretty as you drop into the hill country. You cross the Nueces river with water in it 5 or 6 times