Fredericksburg, Texas
Sip and savor this Texas Hill Country town
Stating the obvious: wine and flying do not mix.
Photography by Rebecca Boone.
That said, you can park your airplane at the very GA friendly Fredericksburg, Texas, airport, stay at the very aviation-friendly Hangar Hotel, have lunch at the Airport Diner, and Uber into historic downtown Fredericksburg, the wine friendly capital of the Texas Hill Country. Here shopkeepers offer wine tastings and glasses full of local wine and you can stroll down the street sipping and savoring.
Photography by Rebecca Boone.
Gillespie County Airport (T82) famously celebrates general aviation with its on-airport Hangar Hotel and welcoming Airport Diner. Both feature the ambiance of the 1940s, with World War II memorabilia, model airplanes, and other period decorations.
Also in Fredericksburg is the 55,000-square-foot National Museum of the Pacific War, the only museum in the country dedicated to World War II in the Pacific Theater. U.S. Navy Fleet Adm. Chester Nimitz was born and raised in Fredericksburg. Here is the home of what is known as “Texas German,” a dialect that originated here because of the great concentration of German immigrants; Fredericksburg is named for Prince Frederick of Prussia.
Julie Summers Walker
AOPA Senior Features Editor
AOPA Senior Features Editor Julie Summers Walker joined AOPA in 1998. She is a student pilot still working toward her solo.
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