The Balcones Escarpment Gives Comal County Two Landscapes

Western Comal County sits near the edge of the Edwards Plateau, where limestone hills and narrow valleys make the familiar Hill Country. Across the Balcones Escarpment, the ground steps down toward the Upper Gulf Coastal Plain.

The change is large enough to read on a drive. The Comal Trinity GCD management plan places the county's high point near 1,527 feet at Devil's Hill and its low point near 600 feet where the Guadalupe enters Guadalupe County.

Rivers and springs use that broken limestone as a route. The Guadalupe cuts across the county, Comal Springs rise along the faulted edge, and roads, views, soils, and wells can feel quite different from one side of the escarpment to the other.