Echo Hill Ranch

Echo Hill Ranch is a summer ranch camp of about 400 acres (1.6 km²) in the Texas Hill Country. The ranch was founded in 1953 by Dr. S. Thomas Friedman and Minnie Samet Friedman. It is located south of Kerrville near Medina. Echo Hill was founded as a noncompetitive, child-centered ranch camp for boys and girls ages 6–14. Echo Hill Ranch is the current residence of Texas musician/writer/gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman.^[1] July 24, 2013 the camp announced via their Facebook page that it would not reopen for summer of 2014.

References

↑ Echo Hill Ranch camp concludes its final summer, by Jackie Schicker, in the Jewish Herald-Voice; published August 15 2013; retrieved January 29 2016

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Summer camps in the U.S. state of Texas

Camps	Camp Arrowhead (Hunt) Camp Bowie (Brownwood) YMCA Camp Carter (Fort Worth) Camp Champions (Marble Falls) YMCA Camp Cullen (Trinity) Deer Creek Adventure Camp (Medina) Camp Doublecreek (Round Rock) Echo Hill Ranch (Kerrville) Camp El Har (Dallas) Camp El Tesoro (Granbury) Camp Fern (Marshall) YMCA Camp Flaming Arrow (Hunt) YMCA Camp Grady Spruce (Graford) YMCA Hamman Ranch (Bandera) Heart O' The Hills Camp (Hunt) Camp Hoblitzelle (Midlothian) Camp Kiowa (Denton) Camp La Junta (Hunt) Camp Lone Star (La Grange) Lone Star Camp (Tilden) Camp Oasis (Dallas) YMCA Camp Pine Tree (Spring) Camp Rio Vista (Ingram) Camp Stewart (Hunt) Camp Sweeney (Gainesville) Texas Lions Camp (Kerrville) Camp Young Judaea (Wimberley)

Boy Scout camps	Camp Casa Mare (Seabrook) Camp Cherokee (Athens) Camp Constantin (Mineral Wells) El Rancho Cima (Wimberley) James Ray Scout Reservation (Pottsboro) Camp Meisenbach (Athens) Camp Wisdom (Dallas)

Coordinates: 29°54′37″N 99°17′40″W / 29.910194°N 99.294498°W / 29.910194; -99.294498

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