Willow Loop Texas Hill Country Scenic DriveWillow Loop is a 5-mile Hill Country scenic drive located 10-miles north of Fredericksburg. April 13, 2007. Our motorhome is in Lady Bird Johnson City Park 3-miles south of Fredericksburg on SR-16; $20 FHU including cable with paved sites. We tend to like Lady Bird Johnson City Park when we are in Fredericksburg because the RV-sites are situated under the canopy of mature pecan trees but there are several more that are good as well. The Fredericksburg RV-Park on Highway street is another good park but it cost more and doesn't have mature trees that provide shade. On this day we decided to do "Willow Loop", a scenic drive 10-miles north of Fredericksburg, that wanders through some spectacular Hill Country scenery. Willow Loop seems to encompass much of the diversity of the Texas Hill Country in creeks, granite and marble outcroppings in the normal limestone bedrock of the area. A granite outcrop, sotol and bluebonnets
A granite outcrop, sotol and bluebonnets. Willow Loop has it all.
Texas wildflowers on Willow Loop
Bluebonnets and a spattering of unidentified yellow flowers.
Bluebonnets
Bluebonnets and a barbed wire fence.
Bluebonnets
Bluebonnets
Bluebonnets and a more expensive fence. This place is owned by a gentleman rancher, probably from San Antonio or Austin.
Bluebonnets
Bluebonnets
Prickly pear cactus adds character to this field of bluebonets as does the white prickly poppies in the background.
Bluebonnets
The picture on the right shows evidence of why this is called the Texas Hill Country.
Bluebonnets & Cactus how Texas
Prickly pear cactus & Bluebonnets
Prickly pear cactus and blue bonnets, essence of Hill Country.
Bluebonnets
Bluebonnets
Pink granite and bluebonnets
Pink granite and bluebonnets.
Live Oak and Bluebonnets
Throw a live oak tree in with some white prickly poppy and bluebonets and you have the Texas Hill Country.
Bluebonnets & White Prickly Poppy
Bluebonnets and a spattering of White Prickly Poppy
Bluebonnets
Just bluebonnets.
Bluebonnets & other wildflowers along Willow Loop Scenic Drive
Bluebonnets
Bluebonnets
Bluebonnets & White Prickly Poppy along Willow Loop in Texas Hill Country
Sotol and bluebonnets
On the right sotol shares the scene with bluebonets.
Yucca, sotol, bluebonnets & Indian paintbursh on Willow Loop scenic drive
This is typical of Willow Loop with Indian paintbrush, bluebonets, yucca, and a granite outcropping. A few Indian paintbrush (reddish flowers) sprinkled in with the bluebonets, yucca, sotol and granite boulders.
Bluebonnets
Bluebonnets and barbed wire
Don't you like this old cedar fence post and multiple rows of barbed wire.
Bluebonnets
Wildflowers along Willow Loop in Texas Hill Country
Granite bolders along Willow Loop
These granite boulders are fairly unique in the Hill Country.
Green-flowered milkweed
This unique flower is a green-flowered milkweed. I suspect it will host monarch butterfly caterpillars later in the year. The bloom is different from any milkweed that I have seen. I don't think it opens any more that that.
Green-flowered milkweed
More green-flowered milkweed with a lone bluebonnet.
Willow Loop wildflower display
Motorcycles cruising Willow Loop Scenic Drive in the Texas Hill Country
Motorcycle groups that visit Luckenbach also like to cruise Willow Loop. If you are interested in Luckenbach, Texas check out our Travel Adventure to Luckenbach: Luckenbach, Texas
Motorcycles cruising Willow Loop Scenic Drive in the Texas Hill Country
Motorcycle groups travel through willow loop enjoying the scenery and not taking up nearly as much room as an automobile. I suspect that over 1,000 motorcycles rode through Willow Loop on the Saturday we enjoyed the scenic drive. Everyone was having a good time. Most of them will visit Luckenbach at some time during the day.
Wildflowers along Willow Loop in Texas Hill Country near Fredericksburg
Yellow and blue makes a good mixture with just a dash of white prickly poppy thrown in for good measure.
Well, there you have it. You have just completed a quick picture tour of the famous "willow loop" north of Fredericksburg, Texas that thousands of bluebonnet aficionados visit Fredericksburg to experience every spring. If you enjoyed this Travel Adventure you might like some of these: Texas Hill Country Fences & Gates Willow Loop Scenic Drive north of Fredericksburg Kerrville, Bandera, Hunt & Ingram; Texas Wildlife of the Texas Hill Country
Click here for more Texas Travel AdventuresUntil next time remember how good life is. Mike & Joyce Hendrix
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