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Big Bend Ranch State Park: Big Spring State Park: Howard 381.99 acres (154.59 ha) 1936 Big Spring State Park: Blanco State Park: Blanco 104.6 acres (42.3 ha) 1934 The Blanco River in Blanco State Park: Bonham State Park: Fannin 261 acres (106 ha) 1933 Bonham State Park headquarters: Brazos Bend State Park: Fort Bend 4,897 acres (1,982 ha) 1984
Mission Tejas State Park is a 660-acre (270 ha) state park located along Texas State Highway 21 in Houston County, Texas, originally constructed in 1935 and transferred to Texas Parks and Wildlife in 1957. The closest major town is Crockett, Texas. The park is open year-round.
In August, the Texas State Parks Board approved US$630,000 in funding for six state parks, including Bastrop's, and proposed a US$4,959,631 biennial budget for the Texas Legislature's consideration. The funding was mostly used for park improvements. Bastrop State Park received US$24,000 for water system improvements. [31]
Texas state parks' visitor data remained mostly consistent in 2023 compared with the previous year. In 2023, Inks Lake State Park replaced the Guadalupe River as the tenth-most visited state park ...
The second-largest canyon in the United States, the 60-mile-long and 800-foot-deep Palo Duro Canyon State Park offers hiking, fishing, equestrian rides, bikes and camping.
Lake Somerville State Park and Trailway is an 8700-acre state park located in Lee County and Burleson County, Texas on the shore of Lake Somerville. The park is a complex of four units; Lake Somerville State Park-Birch Creek Unit, Lake Somerville State Park-Nails Creek Unit, Somerville Trailway and Somerville Public Hunting Land. [ 2 ]
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department acquired the reservoir in 1952 to provide a refuge for migratory waterfowl, a public fishing lake and a fish hatchery. It opened in 1955 as the Sheldon Wildlife Management Area. The hatchery closed in 1975, and the land began to revert naturally to forest, ponds and marshes.
Fairfield Lake State Park is a closed state park located in Freestone County, Texas, United States, northeast of Fairfield on the shores of Fairfield Lake, the subject of a contentious battle between the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) (which leased and operated the park until June 2023) and a private developer (who purchased the land from the prior owner).