San Marcos - 3. Westerfield Crossing to FM 1979 (5.5 miles) (TX)
Low bridge may pose a hazard at higher flows (portage at river right if necessary.) Parking is available up the hill at river left along the CR 103 easement (at the intersection of CR 103 and Skull Rd.)
Many whitewater boaters choose to take out here to avoid the one mile of flat water above Martindale Dam.
Take out on the gravel bar at river right upstream of the road. This takeout is on a spit of land that is part of the natural riverbed (after the Halloween 2015 Flood, the river even sought a new course on the other side of that spit of land, washing out Sculls Rd in the process.) However, the landowners at river right have, in the past, claimed that boaters were trespassing on their property by taking out here. They previously erected a barbed wire fence that intruded upon the right-of-way of the public road, making it difficult to take out. This fence is now gone, due to the 2015 floods, but in general, do not linger here, and do not engage the landowners if they attempt to harass you.