Sandy Creek Below Enchanted Rock Placer Gold Hoard — Llano County

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Sandy Creek Below Enchanted Rock Placer Gold Hoard — Llano County

Lost Treasure TX • Llano County County
Description
Sandy Creek legend of a placer-gold hoard below Enchanted Rock State Park — distinct from documented UT panning and the Gillespie County gold_site entry northeast of Fredericksburg.
Historical Notes
Enchanted Rock rises 385 feet above the streambed of nearby Sandy Creek near State Highway 965. Tom Ashworth's Prospectors Cache notes UT Austin panned gold from Sandy below Enchanted Rock in the 1970s, citing C. F. Eckhardt's "The Lost San Saba Mine"; related gold_site data documents separate northeastern Gillespie County workings. Placer-hoard folklore imagines prospectors burying dust and flakes when remote diggings lacked banking. Small amounts of gold were mined near Enchanted Rock though never profitably; state park rules prohibit prospecting and digging. Coordinates approximate Sandy Creek downstream of Enchanted Rock in the Gillespie–Llano county line country.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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