A nature trail, including a Hill Country botanical exhibit, winds past wildlife enclosures stocked with bison, white-tailed deer, wild turkey, other native wildlife and longhorn cattle. The Sauer-Beckmann Farmstead, located east of the visitor center and off the nature trial, is a living history farm. Life on the farmstead is presented as it was in 1918. Park interpreters wear period clothing, do the farm and household chores as they were done at that time and also conduct tours for the visitors. Bus tours of the LBJ Ranch are conducted by the National Park Service and start at the State Park Visitor Center.
Tours also go throughout the working LBJ Ranch where cattle still are raised.
A fee is charged for the tour. Some chores are seasonal, such as canning and butchering. Farm animals, however, must be cared for on a daily basis, including activities like feeding, milking, gathering eggs and slopping the hogs. Also, the house is cleaned, meals are cooked, butter is churned and cheese is made. The setting for the present-day living history activities is an authentic Hill Country farm.