Hill County

The land is right across the Colorado River from Colorado Bend State Park. The new park may be open in about two years.

Craft breweries across the region, from Blanco to Fredericksburg and Dripping Springs to New Braunfels, are attracting locals and weekend road trippers from all over Texas — and even a few from across the country. Those visitors are also providing an economic boost to small towns that just a decade ago looked a lot sleepier.

For about a year, ranchers and property owners in the Hill Country northwest of San Antonio have been in a standoff with a man planning to open a…