The White House on the Horseshoe

02/11/2024

31/05/2024

We are hiding 3 clear swag bags around Comal County today! Bag finders will receive 2 General Admission tickets to see Randy Rogers Band on Saturday, June 1st! In order to claim your tickets, you MUST send us a video or photo of you with the bag at the location + your name and email address.

Happy Hunting!!!


* By participating and sending us a photo / video, you are authorizing Whitewater Amphitheater to use your image and/or video for marketing purchases.
* Swag bags may vary from photo
* Tickets can only be claimed by the first person to find each bag and send the requested documentation mentioned above

02/04/2024

5 minute drive from the White House 🦕 🦖🤩

Canyon Lake Gorge

A Geological Wonder!

During one week in the summer of 2002, more than 34 inches of rain fell in the upper watershed of the Guadalupe River, setting off a torrent of floodwater that carved a perfectly fascinating geological wonder – the Canyon Lake Gorge – out of the earth.

The flood roared through the Hill Country northwest of New Braunfels, tearing away soil, ripping up huge trees, crumpling houses and sending a rush of water from swollen Canyon Lake over its spillway for the first time since the reservoir was completed in 1964.

The historic flood sliced open the ground below the spillway, creating a gigantic 64-acre Gorge and exposing ancient, cretaceous limestone, fossils and even dinosaur footprints 110 million years old.

It is a textbook example highlighting Hill Country geology and the exposed Trinity Aquifer, clearly showing faults, fractures and seeps in the limestone. Limestone layers created from an ancient sea are visible, and visitors admire waterfalls and springs where the aquifer is exposed.

During one week in the summer of 2002, more than 34 inches of rain fell in the upper watershed of the Guadalupe River, setting off a torrent of floodwater that carved a perfectly fascinating geological wonder – the Canyon Lake Gorge – out of the earth.

08/03/2024

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05/03/2024

https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/texas-2024-eclipse

Total solar eclipse In Texas. See the Texas eclipse path, eclipse times, and see where to view the total solar eclipse in Texas. See drive paths into Texas eclipse path, eclipse weather in Texas, and Texas eclipse maps.

16/01/2024

The White House is now offering rental of the ground floor exclusively, during the off-season. This includes four bedrooms, each with a private full bath, along with kitchen, living room, dining room, and patio access—all conveniently located on the ground level. Check the link below to find an available date for your group of 14 or fewer!

Luxury awaits on the Guadalupe River, across from Whitewater! Firepit!

23/12/2023

Sharing, just in case folks needed another reason to check out the Texas Hill country 😍 The geologic history of Texas, especially the Hill county, is so fascinating! Drive 9 miles from our home to see over 200 on-site dinosaur tracks discovered after two rain storms cut a deep gorge into the land. The Dino tracks are said to be over 110 million years old! Or make the short drive to Austin for a walk on the spectacular granite dome called “Enchanted Rock” located within the Llano Uplift!! 🪨☀️

The Texas Quote of the Day:

"I have already said that we went naked through this country [ either the the Texas Hill Country or the brush Brasada region closer to the border]; not being accustomed to going so, we shed our skins twice a year like snakes. The sun and air raised great, painful sores on our chests and shoulders, and our heavy loads caused the cords to cut our arms. The region is so overgrown that often, when we gathered wood, blood flowed from us in many places where the thorns and shrubs tore our flesh."

------ Cabeza De Vaca, "Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America," 1533. I am rereading Cabeza's account of his adventures in Texas roughly 500 years ago and am still convinced that he was the toughest man who ever lived

Apropos of nothing, here's a great geology map of Texas, courtesy the Bureau of Economic Geology What I love is being able to visually see how profoundly the underlying geology, the rock, impacts and informs what I see on the surface of this state that by now I know so well. The volcanic rock near Castolon in Big Bend? That's the Oligocene and Eocene undivided (OE) (volcanic rocks and conglomerates) .

11/12/2023

Enjoy a one-of-a-kind outdoor music experience On the River and Under the Stars!