Wimberley sits in the Blanco River Valley, where Cypress Creek meets the Blanco about 45 minutes southwest of Austin. It's a small town — fewer than 4,000 residents — but it draws hundreds of thousands of visitors a year, and the reason is the water: cold, clear, spring-fed, and the best swimming in the Hill Country. The other half of Wimberley is the arts — a community of artists, glassblowers, and musicians who settled here decades ago and built something lasting. Add a downtown Square of independent shops and genuinely good restaurants, and you get a town that's harder to reduce to one thing than most — which is the point.
wimberley.ai is built by Spencer and Jess Forrest, owners of Backroads Hill Country — a locally operated Texas Hill Country travel company that has represented Hill Country vacation rentals since 2001, with thousands of guest stays coordinated across the region.
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