- Smith Rock Shelter
Infobox_nrhp | name = Smith Rock Shelter
caption = The Smith Rock Shelter
location =Austin, Texas , USA
nearest_city =
lat_degrees = 30
lat_minutes = 11
lat_seconds = 3.12
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 97
long_minutes = 43
long_seconds = 25.68
long_direction = W
built =
added =October 1 ,1974
refnum=74002095
governing_body = Texas Parks and Wildlife DepartmentThe Smith Rock Shelter is a natuallimestone overhang inMcKinney Falls State Park nearAustin, Texas . The shelter is believed to have been used by Native Americans from500 BCE until the1700s . The last known occupants were related to theTonkawa . It is accessible via the 0.8 mile round-trip Rockshelter Trail in the park.The shelter abuts Onion Creek and is one of two natural rock shelters in
Travis County to be listed on theNational Register of Historic Places (the other is theLevi Rock Shelter ).
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