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Ratcliff Lake Recreation Area is a developed park within the Davy Crockett National Forest near Kennard, Texas, United States.The park surrounds a 45-acre (18 ha) lake that was once a mill pond and source of water for a sawmill which operated from 1902 to 1920.
Davy Crockett National Forest, which is bordered on the northeast by the Neches River and is located in Kennard, Texas, includes the 45-acre (180,000 m 2) Ratcliff Lake. The area is pine-hardwood woodlands with flat to gently rolling terrain.
A mile west of the town, the campground known as Ratcliff Lake Recreation Area attracted tourists. Two Texas historical markers were placed in Ratcliff: one for the town itself in 1972 and another for the Four C Mill in 1973. Ratcliff had two enterprises in 1980, and 106 people lived there in 1990 and 2000. [2]
Located where the southeastern pine forests meet the blackland prairies of central Texas, Davy Crockett National Forest's Big Slough Wilderness consists primarily hardwood forest. A recreation area surrounds Ratcliff Lake, which covers 45 acres (18 ha). [12]: 310–312 [44] Delta: Mississippi
Ratcliff Lake Recreation Area is located in the Davy Crockett National Forest in Houston County east of Crockett. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,237 square miles (3,200 km 2), of which 1,231 square miles (3,190 km 2) are land and 5.7 square miles (15 km 2) (0.5%) are covered by water. [5]
The 2-mile (3.2 km) long highway connects Bonham City Lake Recreation Area to Farm to Market Road 273 (FM 273) and the city of Bonham. The road travels in a generally west–east alignment through mixed rural-residential land along the southern shore of Lake Bonham.
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Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area is a U.S. national recreation area that encompasses the 130-mile (210 km) long Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake between Grand Coulee Dam and Northport, Washington, in eastern Washington state. The Grand Coulee Dam was built on the Columbia River in 1941 as part of the Columbia River Basin project.