Useful URLs and
Phone Numbers
Agencies,
Publications, Travel Aids and Services
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, www.tpwd.state.tx.us
Travel Texas, www.traveltex.com
Austin American-Statesman, www.austin360.com
Austin Chronicle, www.austinchronicle.com. Read Day Trips every week.
Round Top Register, www.roundtop.com
First Class Bed & Breakfast Reservation Service, www.fredericksburg-lodging.com. Convenient
online reservation service for Fredericksburg and the surounding Hill Country,
plus other tourism information and links.
Howie Richey's Texpert Tours,www.texperttours.com. My favorite live tour guide.
Main Book Shop, in Fredericksburg, www.main-book-shop.com. My favorite book store.
Texas Escapes, www.texasescapes.com. My favorite travel-Texas Web site.
Old Texas Maps, www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/historical/historic_tex_cities.html, www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/historical/Texas_1917.jpg, from the University of Texas at Austin libraries.
German Artist on the Texas Frontier: Friedrich Richard Petri. William W. Newcomb, Jr. University of Texas Press, Austin.
Hermann Lungkwitz: Romantic Landscapist on the Texas Frontier. James Patrick McGuire. University of Texas Press, Austin.
The American West in the Nineteenth Century. John Grafton. Dover Publications, New York.
The Rolling Stone. W. S. Porter. Austin.
Central Texas
Chambers of Commerce, Visitors Centers, and Associations
All these groups can provide up-to-date tourism information on the Hill Country and Central Texas.
Austin Chamber of Commerce,
512-478-9383
Austin Visitor Center
800-888-8287
Bandera Chamber of Commerce, www.banderatexas.com
800-364-3833
Bastrop Chamber of Commerce, www.rtis.com/reg/bastrop
512-321-2419
Blanco Chamber of Commerce, www.blancotex.com
830-833-5101
Boerne Chamber of Commerce, www.boerne.org
830-249-8000
Burnet Chamber of Commerce, www.highlandlakes.com/burnet
512-756-4297
Canyon Lake Chamber of Commerce
800-528-2104
Columbus Chamber of Commerce
979-732-8385
Comfort Chamber of Commerce
PO Box 777, Comfort 78013, 830-995-3131
Elgin Chamber of Commerce, www.elgintx.com
512-285-4515
Festival Institute at Round Top, festivalhill.org
979-259-3129
Flatonia Chamber of Commerce
512-865-3920
Fredericksburg Convention and Visitor Bureau, www.fredericksburg-texas.com
830-997-6523
Georgetown Chamber of Commerce
512-930-3535, fax 512-930-3570
Georgetown Convention and Visitors Bureau, www.georgetown.org
800-436-8696
Gonzales
830-672-6532
Gruene Visitor Information
830-629-5077
Hill Country Tourism Association
830-895-5505
Johnson City Chamber of Commerce
830-868-7684
Kerrville Convention and Visitors Bureau
800-221-7958
Kingsland/Lake LBJ Chamber of Commerce
915-388-6211
La Grange Chamber of Commerce, lagrangetx.org
979-968-5756
Lago Vista Chamber of Commerce
512-267-7952
Lake Buchanan/Inks Lake Chamber of Commerce
512-793-2803
LBJ Heartland Network
830-833-2211
Llano Chamber of Commerce, www.llanochamber.org
915-247-5354
Lockhart Chamber of Commerce, www.lockhart-tx.org
512-398-2818
Luling Chamber of Commerce, www.bcsnet.net/lulingcc
830-875-3214
Marble Falls/Lake LBJ Chamber of Commerce
830-693-4449
New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce, www.nbtexas.com
800-572-2626
Round Rock Chamber of Commerce, www.ci.round-rock.tx.us
800-747-3479
San Marcos Convention and Visitors Bureau,
800-782-7653, extension 177, 512-396-2495
Schulenburg Chamber of Commerce
979-743-4514
Shiner Chamber of Commerce
512-594-4180
Smithville Chamber of Commerce, www.ci.smithville.tx.us
512-237-2313
Stonewall Chamber of Commerce
210-644-2735
Taylor
512-352-6364
Weimar Chamber of Commerce
979-725-9511
West Kerr County Chamber of Commerce
800-257-4322
Windedale Historical Center
979-278-3530
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