Mt. Baldy now closed to public
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By Dalton Sweat
Editor
Mount Baldy, also known as Prayer Mountain and one of Wimberley’s iconic locations, is closed to the public as of last week. Since the steps were built in the 1950s, no one seems to remember a time when people weren’t allowed to hike to treeless rock perch that oversees the Wimberley Valley.
“I was stunned and very disappointed (last week) when I visited Mt. Baldy and found a chain across the access to the steps and ‘No Trespassing’ signs,” local resident Michael Freeman wrote to the Wimberley View. “I have been going to Mt.Baldy for over 10 years, and since I broke my back in 2004, the steps have been my main form of exercise. Wimberley High School athletes, Katherine Porter students and EMS train on these steps. This is an icon of Wimberley, popular with locals and visitors.”
Cite Gate Church, formerly the Trinity Chapel, owns the property and has put it up for sale for $149,000, but that is not why they have made the property private.
“There has been a long history even before, we got here, with vandalism and lewd activity, “ City Gate Church Pastor Chad Hayes said. “People go up at night causing problems for the neighborhood.”
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