Tourist Towns in Texas - Tourist Guide
Description: The Highland Lakes in the central Texas Hill Country.
central texas (190) lake travis (53) highland lakes (39) lake lbj (31) lake buchanan (20) lake austin (13) inks lake (10) texas lakes (9) lake marble falls (4) town lake (4)
...consists of 6 lakes along the Colorado River starting 85 miles northwest of Austin and ending in Austin. The lakes are Lake Buchanan, Inks Lake, Lake LBJ, Lake Marble Falls, Lake Travis and Lake Austin. These lakes are very popular with boaters and fishermen as well as campers and tourists. This is also a very popular retirement area. There are services at all of the lakes.
Lake Buchanan is the largest of the first four Highland Lakes in Central Texas with a length of 30 miles and a width at the widest point of just under 5 miles and has a shoreline of 124 miles. When it was built, Buchanan Dam was considered to be the longest multiple-arch dam in the U.S. with a length of just over two miles.
Inks Lake was formed in 1938 when contruction on the Inks Dam was completed by the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA). With a length of 4.2 miles and a width of 3,000 feet, Inks Lake is the shortest of the first four lakes but is also one of the prettiest.
Tourist Towns in Texas - Tourist Guide