Opportunities for youth fishing and family hiking are among uses Hays County envisions for roughly 28 acres of property it recently purchased adjacent to the Cape’s Camp area and the A.E. Wood State Fish Hatchery in San Marcos.

The county purchased the tract known as the “pond property” earlier this year from the Cape family and closed on the deal a few weeks ago, Pct. 1 Commissioner Debbie Gonzales Ingalsbe told the Hays Free Press.

The property had been for sale for years and t...