Historic waterfall is still a prime swimming hole
was once a favored campsite for the native Texas tribe that ranged around Central Texas. Today it is a popular swimming hole when the seasonal creek is running.Local men desperate for a paying job cleared the brush from the 35-acre wooded area and built a caretaker’s house, community center, and rock picnic tables, and cut steps into the rock wall down to the water’s edge.
Workers clearing the debris around the waterfall found burial sites and petroglyphs left by the Tonkawa residents. When the creek is reduced to a trickle in late summer, some of the art is visible on the rock walls.. For their allegiance to the settlers, the Tonkawa were banished to a reservation in Indian Territory.
Tonkawa Falls City Park is on the east side of Crawford off FM 185 about 20 miles west of Waco. During peak periods there is an admission fee. The city posts notices when the water level or quality is unsafe for swimming at 1,698th in a series. Everywhere is a day trip from somewhere: Follow “Day Trips & Beyond,” a travel blog, at has been Austin’s independent news source for over 40 years, expressing the community’s political and environmental concerns and supporting its active cultural scene. Now more than ever, we need your support to continue supplying Austin with independent, free press.
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