Lake Buchanan was formed in the 1930s when the Colorado River was dammed at Buchanan Dam, completed in 1938 and named for Congressman James P. Buchanan, who secured the funding. It is one of the largest of the Highland Lakes — roughly 22,000 acres of open water — and, unlike the pass-through lakes downstream, a storage reservoir: its level rises and falls with rain and drought across the whole Colorado basin. Burnet, 13 miles east, is the basecamp; Tow, Bluffton, and the Inks Lake / Park Road 4 corridor ring the shoreline. In winter, bald eagles come to the north end where the river feeds in.
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