Fredericksburg — Wine Road US-290 Corridor (Texas Hill Country AVA)

The stretch of US-290 running through Texas Hill Country anchors an American Viticultural Area with over 50 wineries, making it the second most-visited wine region in the United States by tourist traffic. Fredericksburg — founded by German immigrants in 1846 — sits at the center of it, a town where peach orchards and grape culture grew up together in the same thin limestone soil. The wine trail along this corridor is the reason most visitors come now.