Hamilton Pool, Best Kept Secret of Texas, in Dripping Springs.
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Hamilton Pool, Best Kept Secret of Texas.
Dripping Springs, Texas
Hamilton Pool Preserve is a natural pool that was created when the dome of an underground river collapsed due to massive erosion thousands of years ago. The pool is located about 23 miles west of Austin, Texas off Highway 71.
parks.travisco...
14 Interesting Facts about Hamilton Pool
1. The water at Hamilton Pool is really cold with a temperature about 50 degrees in some spots.
2. The Hamilton Pool waterfall never completely dries up, however, when it's dry it does slow to a trickle.
3. Hamilton Creek spills out over limestone outcroppings to create a 50-foot waterfall.
4. According to legend, the 8-year-old son of an immigrant family from Germany who lived on the land in the 1880s discovered the collapsed grotto.
5. Collapsed grotto and canyon uniquely surrounds the pool, formed by water erosion over thousands of years
6. Cultural remains near the pool are more than 8,000 years old.
7. At the turn of the century, only about five people were able to make it to the pool because they were the only ones who had transportation.
8. Lipan Apaches and Tonkawa lived in the area before the 1800s.
9. Golden-Cheeked Warblers and various other birds call the preserve home.
10. Between 1960 and 1980, Hamilton Pool gained popularity and, as a result, the land suffered from the visiting public.
11. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department named Hamilton Pool the most significant natural area in rural Travis County in 1980
12. Travis County purchased 232 acres in 1985 to implement a land management plan to restore Hamilton Pool.
13. There is a limit on the number of people who can be in the preserve, which means there's a waiting line to swim in the summer. The wait time can be about an hour.
14. Drones are permitted to be flown in nearby Reimers Ranch Park, but cannot fly over areas where crowds gather.
Last Camerai Exploring America
Things to do, Travel, Getaway, Vacation, Road Trip, Attractions, Tour
lastcamerai.com
Hamilton Pool, located just west of Austin Texas is a natural pool that was created when the dome of an underground river collapsed due to massive erosion thousands of years ago. Hamilton Creek spills out over limestone outcroppings to create a 50-foot waterfall. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department named Hamilton Pool the most significant natural area in rural Travis County. Travis County purchased 232 acres in 1985 to implement a land management plan to restore Hamilton Pool. Its a must see when you come to the Texas Hill Country!
Today the Pool is at risk, because of a proposed RV park that will be built just a few hundred yards away from Hamilton Pool! The proposed 80+ RV park is uphill from Hamilton Pool, and the RV park poses a real risk to the water quality and environment of Hamilton Pool. If you want to voice your objection to the 80+ RV park that could destroy Hamilton Pool contact the Travis County Commissioners Court today!
Precinct 3 Commissioner
Gerald Daugherty
(512) 854-9333
Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt
(512) 854-9555
Precinct 2 Commissioner
Brigid Shea
(512) 854-1480
Precinct 4 Commissioner
Margaret Gómez
(512) 854-9444
Precinct 1 Commissioner
Jeffrey W. Travillion, Sr.
(512) 854-9111
Raymond Navarro hey what’s the status on that now??
Bless your heart but Hamilton Pool and all of surrounding Austin have gone to crap bc of all these people from out of state that have ruined the air, water and soil quality in the area from overdevelopment. RIP ATX
May I ask how does the RV pose a threat to Hamilton pool?
I hope that people respect this beautiful place and not pollute. If you ever go here and see someone do it cuss them out!!!
Damn Straight. Make them pick up their thrown trash with broken fingers. Ahaha. Jk no broken fingers.
This is by far the best video I have seen on this place. Awesome talent.
Thank you
Red five PHOTOGRAPHY did that place BEAUTIFUL Justice .☝️😁☝️🕊❤💫
W>h>a>t>s>a>p>p
+*1*7*6*2*6*7*5*2*0*1*2
I>n>v>e>s>t> on >B>t>c & > E>t>h..
Great video, thank you for posting it. You've convinced my wife and I to go visit this enchanted place.
Thank you. Did you guys enjoy it?
Es impresionante ese parque, muy bien cuidado. Vale la pena conocerlo.
Alexis Gonzàlez quiero ir antes qué todos los niños salgan de escuela
Como se puede entrar a el
Beautiful!!!❤️ Fabulous job LAST CAMERAI.!!!.......... Great name to!!!!👍🏼
Thank you ;)
I brought my fam last year and they had some friendly ass catfishes you can touch
how - it says closed due to covid.
@@cremedelacreme. it says his comment was from over a year ago.
@@emilymccranie7073 yes thats when covid started, i guess he went right before the lockdowns took effect
W>h>a>t>s>a>p>p
+*1*7*6*2*6*7*5*2*0*1*2
I>n>v>e>s>t> on >B>t>c & > E>t>h..
Best kept secret??
I dont think so dude. We used to climb at Reimers Ranch all day and then just drive to Ham Pool and cool off with no problem. Now...you need a reservation with several month waiting list just to swim where we used to anytime we wanted. Secret my ass.
Thank Austin for messing up Ham Pool and E Rock.
Henry's and Milton's, good times!
Agreed. People destroyed it.
People have destroyed the fun at numerous former secret swimming holes. Now only a few difficult to get to spots in Tx still are truly hidden gems. Thanks a lot social media for promoting hordes of jackasses to visit and trash the once natural beauty.
@@WaterfallWhispering social media destroyed the usa in many ways and the world. Dating everything is ruined.
yep - in 70's and 80's we used to camp at henry reimers by the pedernales and walk up and back to hamilton pool - beautiful walk there too. glad i got to do it then - it was pristine
I used to live in Dripping Springs and worked at Walgreens for awhile!
Nice town...
Very cool!
A hidden Oasis
Hi there. Love the video also. Can we please have permission to use it on our Cabin website nearby so people can see your amazing vision of the springs? Really love your work!
Sure, why not? Thanks
@@IcyBoltPictures have you checked out Devils hole just outside BROWNWOOD?☝️🙄😁..........❤🕊❤
❤...🥵
waiting for your cabins name, plan on visiting Texas!😊
So stunningly beautiful, and it's true that many people don't know about Hamilton Pool outside of Texas.
Thank you ;). I want to be back there next year.
Where is it
@@thomaswiman3804 W>h>a>t>s>a>p>p
+*1*7*6*2*6*7*5*2*0*1*2
I>n>v>e>s>t> on >B>t>c & > E>t>h..
We tried to keep it that way...didn't work out. People who hated Texas suddenly like it and they tell all their friends, now you need reservations to get around 10,000 people.
That's the way we like it. Too many outsiders bring too many of their bad habits. If you're respectful come one, come all but if you're littering and being disrespectful, it makes it hard to accept outsiders. I'm not saying you're that way, I'm just saying I've seen some real assholes come out, lots of times they're from here in Texas, from San Antonio. I'm from San Antonio but I pretty much grew up in Boerne Texas, then moved to San Antonio when I was 12 when parents divorced. Lots of trouble makers come out there sometimes.
Absolutely fantastic👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks bro ;)
Perfect video.. The music is amazing.
Thanks
What is the name of the song that is playing in the video>
Gorgeous
Hamilton Pool looks so beautiful. I heard it is crazy cold.. anyone know if that is true? I moved to Manor to a new Express Home and am really looking forward to checking out all that I can especially natural wonders. Thanks.
Yes it is cold it is about 50 degrees it might feel cold once you get in but once you are like 5 mins in it starts to warm up!
no it is not
Diane Comet Yes, it’s on the chilly side but you get acclimated relatively quick. Many lakes and bodies of water in the Texas Hill Country are fed by underground aquifers so they tend to be on the cold side. It can get hot in the hill country, so when you jump in to escape the ambient air temp of 100+ degrees Fahrenheit, it’s refreshing.
Depends on when you go. In the summer it's refreshing but not cold. And it's not open year round or even daily. Only occasionally and got a limited number if people a day.
That is Barton Creek it flows through. The water is chilly but it gets really cold at Barton Springs. About a half a mile before the creek spills into the Colorado River near downtown Austin. Barton pool has natural springs that make it very cold. The pool is open year-round and people are swimming in it when it's freezing outside.
Wow! This is a beautiful place! Great place for relaxing time!😍
Thanks for visiting
Beautiful vid !
Was looking for a great to show the family for our current trip .
Thanks !
Beautiful
Great video shots thanks for filming! :)
Awesome
I subbed for more awesomeness. ...
Thank you. It's been a while I've been away. I will be more active.
Must be a secret alright.. I live in Houston and I’d been swimming in dirty ass Galveston all my life.
:)))
Why does this seem like one of those movies where its all pretty in the beginning then weird animals or people start hunting and killings the people. With only like one person alive at the end.. lol
lol :))))
Joseph Williams wtf.....lool
Just you, maybe you're the weird one
😂🤣🤣🤣
Welcome to Texas. 😉
What a Beautiful video. I'm from Austin and used to go here a lot in the early 70s. My mother saw a water moccasin one time and we never went back LOL I still haven't gone back there on my own. Austin has gotten so crowded you need a reservation to get in these days. The Bee Cave area has exploded in the last 10 years. Things are getting ridiculous around here.
I too use to swim at Hamilton Pool in the 70’s. Then moved out of Austin when I enlisted in the Navy, served 20 yrs and retired and came back home to Austin. Me and some friends went there 11 yrs ago. I was swimming in the deep in, when my friend yelled “Jackie, snake behind you.” I quickly turned around and saw a huge Water Moccasin coming towards me. I am deathly afraid of snakes. Jesus walked I water, but that day I ran on water, being chased by a Water Moccasin. Like you your mother, I’ve never been back to Hamilton Pool.
Thanks guys defiantly crossing this off my spring break list
Yes it's become LA of Texas, thanks to Joe Rogan and company for bringing all of those transplants. Sucks!
I went there about 12 years ago and there was a long line of vehicles to get in. I can't imagine what it's like now days. It was awesome, but the crowding like other things take away from it unless you like crowds.
Where exactly is it? We are vacationing and want to go there
@@charliep788b they aren’t allowing swimming here currently because of falling rocks.
Great spot! my second home during the summer
W>h>a>t>s>a>p>p
+*1*7*6*2*6*7*5*2*0*1*2
I>n>v>e>s>t> on >B>t>c & > E>t>h..
Can we use this video for our SaveHamiltonPool.com website? A huge development just purchased 40 acres across this jewel and we want to anything we can to preserve Hamilton Pool and stop this development. Please let me know if I can tag your video to our page. Thank you!
Sorry for the late response. Yes, go ahead! Thanks for watching ;)
i love it there.
Very awesome place!
We agree!
we visited in February 2018, hope to go when it is summer time some time too!
The one thing that sucks here is that there’s cow farms near And Meneor gets it the stream the water is connected to so you can’t go certain times of summer which is a boomer
Its is Texas where aren't there cattle.
This is truly what Heaven looks like.
Do you know if I can bring my puppy?
Hamilton Pool hasn't been the 'Best kept Secret' in at least 40 years when they paved it.
Hey cool video shots...what do you film with and how do you get your edit colours so vibrant...what editing platform do you use?
Back then I used GoPro4, Sony a5100, DJI phantom3 and Adobe Premiere Pro. ;)
Wondering if you got fined for operating a drone there?
I was lucky :)))
SHE'S STILL BEAUTIFUL...IMAGINE HOW OUR HEAVENLY FATHER PRESERVES 65 +...ENJOY MY FRIENDS IN JESUS.
❤🕊❤
❤...🌻👍
Amen! ;)
Gods paradise
Madison Castillo well said Madison.. well said
Best unkept secret in Texas.. so many people go, you need to make reservations for the experience.
Billy Pope I just randomly want to hop in my car and go with my puppy
The reservation is a good thing. Less people and if you go early summer it's perfect.
The water is much warmer in the summer 70F - 80F
W>h>a>t>s>a>p>p
+*1*7*6*2*6*7*5*2*0*1*2
I>n>v>e>s>t> on >B>t>c & > E>t>h..
Thought this was shut down . Lived down there in the early 80's went back to pick up my Harley, and couldn't get in.... But we snuck in to show my friend. We always hiked in from the river, on the old homesteaders land. Cool place. Bet the original Texans love all the Californicatoin people moving in..... Lmao. As they said back then... Keep Texas beautiful put a Yankee on a bus. I bet it's put a Californian on a bus know.
You merely swam in Hamilton pool, me, I was born in it
I was busy doing the video, lol. So I didn't even swim :))
Is it open always or ??? Is there hours ?
I think it is always open, but to make sure just check it on their website
@@lastcamerai I did think you have to make an reservation or something
At 2:51 does that mean that the pool is closed?
Used to be great until Austin got overpopulated wutj people from out of state and Hamilton pool is now packed every day! So much so that we can't even go without making reservations
Best kept secret, used to be, but now exposed :))
It looks like an incredible location can't wait to see and hang out in it . :):)
You will like it
does it cost anything to go in and see it?
Music sounds like bloody Enya.
Is it possible to jump from the waterfall into the pool
No, it is not. You may die from the jump or kill someone in the pool.
Ken Dinh well shit, its not that fun then, though the scenery is nice and you get to swim
You can jump from the rock under the waterfall but not the top. The top is protected land and not accessible.
Yes, it is possible. Idiots have done it. Is it safe? No, idiots have died doing it.
I live in dripping
Same. Been to Hamilton Pool.
puppies pup One question, is it really as pretty as it looks on videos ?
puppies pup yup
Karla Rangel tbh it depends on the day but yeah it’s pretty and has a cool hiking place make sure to bring shoes if your going it’s a hike to the pool
Karla Rangel and make sure to make a reservation as they only let a few people be there at a time to preserve it or else it would be overflows with pepole
So question. I'm from Waco been wanting to go here, is it open to the public or by reservation, how does that work?
it's by appointment only on their website: parks.traviscountytx.gov/parks/hamilton-pool-preserve
@lastcamerai much appreciated thank you 👍
I will move to Texas this summer. I will sue to check this out. What town is this by? I will be moving to Houston
Song used?
I forgot where I got it from, and I lost it already
Sad they got no drone signs all over the place now
Do you have to make reservations there?
How do they clean it?
I ,ike this plase
Thanks for watching ;)
😍😍😍😍
Ive been. So Beautiful
Is it worth traveling from Dallas to this place?
Yes, worth traveling in September
Last Camerai what about in the spring time coming from the Houston area
Name of river
How did you get authorization to fly a drone at the pool?
It was not crowded, and I did a 5 minutes quickie :) hoping not to get a fine or have the drone crashed. FYI, no GPS signals at the area for drones, so it's easy to hit rocks and trees, not good for the public safety. I suggest not flying at all ;)
I didn't read the drone rule on their website until now.
"DRONES AND AERIAL CRAFT: The use of drones and other aerial craft are not permitted in Hamilton Pool Preserve. This policy is necessary to preserve the safety of the visitors and the ability of visitors to enjoy the natural setting. Hamilton Pool is also a nature preserve with a mission to provide habitat for wildlife. Drones may be flown in nearby Reimers Ranch Park, as long as they are not flown over areas crowded with people"
How far from Downtown Austin?
About 40 minutes
Alexander Hamilton anyone?
is there wildlife in the water?
I guess not ;)
I'm not sure about that, but certain times if the year the pool is closed. Nesting cave swallows produce too many droppings in the water make it not safe to swim at times.
I can tell you "Yes". I've been there last year, and my friend was bitten by a fish haha XD
catfish
Yes, but only small fish. Nothing that can eat you. It's too cold for snakes. And the fish did not bite me.
Is it safe for a almost 3 year old?
Yes, it is safe with your care.
Anyone live in Austin
yeah
No
In Arizona the Native Americans charge you to enter their spring lol. One probably has to pay there too.
Yes, $26 :))
All the crackheads and meth and heroin addicts ruined and continue to ruin our lakes and rivers here in Sacramento Ca and surrounding areas, The City and County do absoutly nothing. Looks so nice there thanks for sharing.
Well.. Thats shitty California for ya.. Dont come here and ruin our state now. Yall are migrating to Colorado and ruined it there now. Got family there. Please dont come to Texas now.
@@randyvela2341 just an observation, the person who made the comment (stukinnorcal) was commenting that others ( who do drugs ) have ruined their state. You proceed in telling this guy not to come to Texas ( yall ) implies him also. He is complaining about the problem, not one of them or yall. Then you tell him please don't come to Texas, he is not one of them, really important distinction.
I've been there.... Better music than Lord of the Rings....
:))
2016... 20 yr old drowned there.
Drip
Don't waste your time to go there. It is not like this video