Start the new year with a new list of places to explore: This month starts the yearlong centennial celebration of our state parks; there’s also a Renaissance festival in Kerrville, Lunar New Year festivities, and a food party in Surfside Beach.
Start the new year with a new list of places to explore: This month starts the yearlong centennial celebration of our state parks; there’s also a Renaissance festival in Kerrville, Lunar New Year festivities in Grand Prairie and Houston, and a food party in Surfside Beach. Stay warm and stay curious.
Pedernales Falls State Park outside of Johnson City opened in 1971 and was formerly the Circle Bar Ranch. Now it caters to all kinds of recreational activities.with the task of acquiring donated land for public use. It was the humble beginnings of our state parks system. With 95% of Texas land privately owned, and often jealously guarded, our state parks are the best opportunity most Texans have to get outdoors and experience nature.
Through several iterations, the state parks department has contracted and expanded over the years. The men and women at TPWD do a lot of different things to protect and maintain our state’s important natural resources.Texas Game and Fish Commissionwas created as a standalone entity to set aside land as parks. The earliest vision of a state park system pictured roadside parks where travelers could pull off and camp. Many of these still exist along our highways as picnic areas.
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