🍂 Explore 20 Texas State Parks near San Antonio for fall camping Make those reservations now, popular parks can fill up fast. Rebecca Salinas, Digital Executive Producer.

At a time when Texas is booming with construction and traffic, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is working to protect the most beautiful parts of the state from development. Six of those ...

This year, I've already visited a new one for me, Buescher State Park, off Texas 71 near Smithville, which is under considerable renovation. So I must return once the work is done.

Texas state parks had a 4.3% decrease in visitors during Fiscal Year 2023, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department data. More than 9.2 million people visited the parks, which marks the ...

Palo Pinto Mountains State Park. About 75 miles west of Fort Worth in the tiny town of Strawn, a 5,000-acre swath of Texas ranchland is poised to become the region’s first new state park in 25 ...

In the coming years, Texas is going to open six new state parks, including 2 near Houston. Houston Chronicle Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo. Skip to main content. ... 2023, near Del Rio, Texas.

Chinati Mountains State Natural Area near Big Bend Ranch State Park. The park is one of six new locations Texas Parks and Wildlife is adding over the next 15 years.

Currently, Texas has 89 parks, natural areas, and historic sites. New parks in development include Palo Pinto Mountains State Park near Fort Worth, the Dan A. Hughes Unit of the Devils River State ...

State parks near San Antonio could face same threat as closed North Texas park Texas has roughly 700,000 acres of state parks. To put it in perspective, that is roughly the size of the entire ...

Parks & Recs What Should Texas Do With $1 Billion for State Parks? Lawmakers just authorized lots of money to acquire new parkland. We asked advocates and conservationists to dream big.

Enchanted Rock State Natural Area will double in size thanks to the state's purchase of more than 3,000 adjacent acres.(Texas Parks and Wildlife Department) One of the most popular state parks in ...

Two other tracts—1,721 acres in Uvalde County and 2,020 acres across the river from Colorado Bend State Park, near San Saba—would likely be used to create new stand-alone parks, says Texas ...