Hate to break it to you but everything that was once good about that area is ruined. As in everything you remember good about it is dead. I just moved home after being in Dripping Springs for 8 years. My aunt has been there since 1979 so I spent a lot of summers there when I was a kid. All the cool places are history. Barton Springs, Pedernales Falls, Hamilton Pool, The Guadalupe river. All of it....ruined.