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Unleash your inner German at this incredibly popular B&B-rich town with great shopping on Main Street, top restaurants, biergartens, nearby Enchanted Rock State Park, and some kind of festival nearly every weekend.

70 miles west of Austin; www.fredericksburg-texas.com

This 1870s German town, Gruene (pronounced “green”) shelters Greune Hall—the oldest dance hall in Texas, the famous Grist Mill Restaurant, and great shopping.

40 miles south of Austin; www.gruenetexas.com

Explore the Alamo and San Antonio Missions Historical Park; shop and dine along the River Walk; enjoy city views from the Tower of the Americas and catch a Spurs game.

90 miles south of Austin; www.sanantoniocvb.com

See the town that Willie Nelson immortalized in a song. For 100 years now, the center of town has been a general store that also functions as a post office, dance hall and bar.

80 miles west of Austin; www.luckenbachtexas.com

Visit Wimberley’s Pioneer Town with its 1890s buildings, including a working ice cream store, café and a wedding chapel.

40 miles southwest of Austin; www.wimberly.org

Most people don’t know that Texas is the fifth-largest wine-producing state in the U.S. – and that the Hill Country is its own appellation with 22 wineries.

25 miles from Austin; www.texaswinetrail.com

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