Blue Hole sits on the South Fork of the San Gabriel just north of the Square, under limestone bluffs, and it's about as good a shorthand for Georgetown as anything. Walk five minutes and you're on the most photographed courthouse square in Texas. Walk the other way and you're in San Gabriel Park.
It matters to us because the river is the middle of our Georgetown route and the middle of the town's pool problems. The two forks of the San Gabriel run right through the city, and the pecans and bald cypress along that corridor drop harder and longer than the live oaks people usually worry about. If your yard backs onto that green strip anywhere between Blue Hole, Chandler Park and San Gabriel Park, we already know what your skimmer looks like in November.
From there we're a short run to Southwestern University, the Palace Theatre, the public library, and out Williams Drive toward Sun City.
We're based near the intersection at Red Bud Lane and Forest Creek Dr in Round Rock. Georgetown is eleven and a half miles straight up I-35, about nineteen minutes, and it's one of the shortest runs on our week.
There are two ways in and we use both. I-35 is fastest outside rush hour and drops us at Georgetown's Inner Loop and Austin Avenue for anything near the Square, Katy Crossing or Crystal Knoll Terrace. When I-35 is stacked, which it reliably is northbound between about four and six, we take A W Grimes Boulevard north to FM 1460 instead and come in past Teravista and La Conterra. It's a couple of minutes longer on paper and much faster in practice.
Inside town the route splits on the river. Williams Drive and D B Wood Road take us northwest toward Sun City, Berry Creek and the Lake Georgetown side near Cedar Breaks Park. University Avenue and SH-29 run west to Wolf Ranch, Shadow Canyon and the newer sections. And FM 971 and the Northeast Inner Loop cover the east side out toward the Georgetown airport.