t’s a heart-pumping hike up 218 limestone steps to the knobby summit of Mount Baldy in Wimberley. But the work pays off with 360-degree views of the Wimberley Valley’s rolling hills and basins, a landscape that harbors some of the Hill Country’s finest natural and cultural treasures. On cool mornings, rising mist traces the course of the Blanco River and Cypress Creek, and sun rays illuminate the limestone ridge known as the Devil’s Backbone. Settled around 1850 as a trading post and gristmill, Wimberley today is a
