By Glynis Crawford Smith
The Highlander
The two-year highway beautification project for the intersection of US 281 and Texas 71 began with a groundbreaking Tuesday, Dec. 27.
The site has been called the Gateway to the Hill Country and Highland Lakes Region and described as a “welcome mat” at the threshold of traffic from seasonal visitors from within Texas and from far beyond Texas borders.
As such, it was endorsed during the spring and summer by the Burnet and Llano County Commissioners Courts, the cities of Marble Falls, Granite Shoals and Burnet, along with most of the area's cities and counties. The project was proposed by Citizens for Scenic Texas Highways (CSTH) in a landscape partnership with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Adopt-A-Highway program.
