You can also take a hayride and try to milk a cow. You can stay in the Knutzen Haus, the Graf Haus, the Log Cabin, the Bybee Farmhouse or the Nechanitz Haus. There are only three bedrooms in this lovely old house, each with its own private bath featuring claw foot tubs. A two-story, handsome 1870 plantation home is one of the six buildings where rooms are provided. Others are in an 1825 log cabin, a charming cottage, an 1836 Greek Revival style home, a 1900 farmhouse and even a ranch hand's bunkhouse.
Giant oaks surround the buildings, which sit on a totally peaceful and quiet plain.
The main home's walls are lined with fully stocked bookshelves and prints, many of them antique. Tim's Cafe on the Square in La Grange is one of the prettiest dining places along the Trail. Spacious and multi-windowed, it's bright and cheerful, not to mention cheap. Bud and Karen Royer mix Texan cooking with modern bistro cuisine, and have pies to die for.