FRONT GATEThe H.E. Butt Foundation owns 1,900 acres north of Leakey, Texas and has had the place since 1954. They bought the land to be used as a camp for youth and adults all around the nation as a way to get to know God and get in touch with the nature that he so dearly created. Howard Butt, Sr. was the founder of the encampment, as a child he enjoyed the beauty of the land around him as he was a big camper while growing up. The camp its self is an art piece, to get to the camps you must drive through the Frio River about a quarter of a mile, as you drive you can look into the water and see a beautiful symmetry to the world around the freezing cold water of the river. And the colors around you especially being that we are in the Fall season are spectacular with reds, oranges, greens and yellows it’s just such a beautiful sight to see. There is a place in the camp that has what everybody calls the Blue Hole a humongous hole in the middle of the Frio River that is said to drop about 50 to 60 feet straight down, it is a beautiful thing to see especially the brilliant blue glow that the water seems to give off. The color of nature is so prominent around you when you go to visit this wonderful place. The art of God’s beautiful power is also evident not just in nature but as well as the peoples lives that are changed from the time they drive through the front gate to the time they leave the camp till the next year.
DRIVING THROUGH THE FRIO RIVER
ONE OF THE MANY CAMPSITES
