The full roster
The Texas Hill Country is not one city or one neat boundary. It is a web of river towns, German settlements, ranch communities, highway crossroads and tiny places that barely interrupt the road. Hill Country Towns maps 36 of them—from Fredericksburg and Kerrville to Luckenbach, Wimberley, New Braunfels and much smaller communities that are easy to miss unless you know where to look.
Use the map to study the region, open a town guide, or jump back into the game and see how many places you can pin without labels.
Every town in the game now has its own map guide. Use the game categories below for difficulty, or switch to river relationships when you want to learn how the region actually fits together.
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Headliners · the famous ones
Day Trips · worth the drive
Deep Cuts · blink and you miss them
The fastest way to learn 36 towns is to stop memorizing 36 separate dots. Learn a few geographic clusters, then use the anchor towns to place the smaller communities around them.
Fredericksburg · Luckenbach · Stonewall · Hye · Johnson City · Blanco · Willow City · Harper
Fredericksburg is the strongest anchor in the middle of the map. Luckenbach sits southeast of it; Stonewall and Hye continue east toward Johnson City; Willow City lies north. Once Fredericksburg is fixed, this whole section becomes easier.
Kerrville · Ingram · Hunt · Comfort · Boerne · Bandera · Center Point · Sisterdale · Medina
In the south-central and western Hill Country, rivers do much of the organizing. Kerrville, Ingram and Hunt follow the Guadalupe corridor; Boerne belongs to Cibolo Creek; Bandera sits on the Medina River.
Marble Falls · Burnet · Llano · Kingsland · Lampasas · Mason
The Colorado River, Highland Lakes and Llano River organize the northern part of the game. Marble Falls sits on the Colorado; Llano sits upstream and west on the Llano River; Burnet anchors the country north of Marble Falls.
Wimberley · Dripping Springs · San Marcos · New Braunfels · Canyon Lake · Driftwood
The eastern edge is where the uplands drop toward the Austin–San Antonio corridor. Wimberley sits west of San Marcos; New Braunfels lies farther south where the Comal meets the Guadalupe.
Junction · Leakey · Concan · Utopia · Vanderpool · Camp Wood
The towns get farther apart toward the west and southwest. The Frio and Nueces river country is less about interstate corridors and more about canyons, river valleys and a handful of small communities.
Learning clusters, not legal subregions — the groupings are for building a mental map.
Rivers organize the Hill Country better than roads do. Group the towns by the water that connects them and the map starts to make physical sense — upstream and downstream instead of a scatter of dots.
Kerrville · Ingram · Hunt · Center Point · Comfort · Canyon Lake · New Braunfels
Ingram and Hunt sit upstream of Kerrville; Center Point and Comfort lie downstream; the river reaches Canyon Lake and New Braunfels far to the southeast.
Junction · Mason · Llano · Kingsland · Marble Falls · Burnet
The Llano River forms at Junction, runs east through Mason County and Llano, and reaches Lake LBJ at Kingsland — the Highland Lakes country of Marble Falls and Burnet.
Fredericksburg · Stonewall · Hye · Johnson City
From the Fredericksburg area the Pedernales runs east past Stonewall and Hye to Johnson City.
Blanco · Wimberley · San Marcos
The Blanco River runs from Blanco through the Wimberley country to San Marcos, where it joins the spring-fed San Marcos River.
The Frio forks join above Leakey and run down the canyon past Garner State Park to Concan.
Lost Maples sits at the top of the Sabinal Canyon, then Vanderpool, then Utopia downstream.
Camp Wood holds the Nueces Canyon, west of the Frio across a steep divide.
Medina · Bandera · Castroville
The Medina River assembles near Medina, flows past Bandera, and reaches the Castroville valley downstream.
Generalized river relationships for learning — not a hydrologic survey.
The map gets stranger once you leave the town squares. A rusty pasture “Loch Ness Monster,” a fake Old West town, a 1918 bat tower, giant fiberglass cowboys and the relocated Texas Chain Saw Massacre house all sit between these 36 towns. Go find the weirdest roadside attractions in the Texas Hill Country.
The Texas Hill Country is a cultural and geographic region rather than a single legal boundary. Much of its rugged limestone terrain belongs to the Edwards Plateau, while its eastern edge drops toward the Balcones Escarpment and the Austin–San Antonio corridor. Different maps draw the boundary differently, which is why some edge communities—especially places such as New Braunfels and San Marcos—can appear inside one Hill Country definition and outside another.
This map is designed for learning the towns people commonly associate with the Hill Country rather than enforcing one official border. The result is intentionally practical: if a place belongs in the mental map Texans use when they talk about the Hill Country, it can belong in the game. For the longer answer — the Edwards Plateau, the Balcones Escarpment and why reasonable maps disagree — see Where is the Texas Hill Country?
The fastest way to learn the Hill Country is not to memorize 36 isolated dots. Learn the relationships. Kerrville sits on the Guadalupe west of Fredericksburg. Luckenbach is tucked southeast of Fredericksburg. Wimberley lies west of San Marcos near the Blanco River and Cypress Creek. New Braunfels marks the southeastern edge of the region where the Comal meets the Guadalupe. Once a few anchor towns lock into place, the smaller communities become much easier to find.