Biggest Williamson County Park to be Just North of Leander

We here at Overlook Estates are well-positioned for parks and recreation. Williamson County's Southwest Regional Park is a short drive to the east, 500 hundred acres 4 miles east on FM2243 (the former Garey Ranch) is being developed as a public park by Georgetown, and now 1011 acres just north of Leander is being converted to a Williamson County park... -- RCA



From statesman, August 26, 2008...


Williamson County commissioners voted Tuesday to purchase 1,011 acres of land that will serve as the county's largest park.

The county plans to buy the property, which is on the South San Gabriel River south of Liberty Hill and has rolling hills, and live oak and cedar trees, for roughly $10.6 million, $2 million less than what commissioners originally planned to spend on another park site north of Liberty Hill.

The 1,011 acres are owned by Andrew Williams and his two siblings, who inherited the land that their father bought in 1940.


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