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Around San Marcos
This section is dedicated to the wonderful sites
and attractions in and around the San Marcos area.
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The San Marcos
River -photo
by Sean French
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Texas State
University
The Texas State San Marcos campus consists of
a 456-acre main campus and 5,000 additional acres in recreational,
instructional, farm and ranch land servicing approx. 30,000 students.
The Texas State campus has historical buildings like Old Main,
as old as the university itself 1903, and the brand-new
McCoy Hall, with flat screen monitors rather than bulletin boards.
Texas State at San Marcos also features the Mitte Complex, which
contains a high-tech clean room and a microchip fabrication lab,
cutting-edge facilities.
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River
Systems Institute
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At
the Aquarena Center/River Systems Institute on the Texas State campus,
you can see the second-largest springs in Texas through the floor
of a glass-bottom boat. These springs feed the San Marcos River
and are home to several endangered species, including the Texas
Blind Salamander. In fact, as the site of the Aquarena Center, River
Systems Institute and Edwards Aquifer Research and Data Center,
the Texas State campus is one of the best places in the world to
study aquatic ecosystems and species.
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