Category: camping

Fort Boggy State Park

Fort Boggy State Park is composed of 1,847 acres located in Leon County among the wooded terrain, rolling hills, bottom land meadows, and wetlands. Wildlife viewing opportunities includes white-tailed deer, raccoons, squirrels, foxes, and beavers. A large portion of Fort Boggy State Park is subject to flooding during wet periods, which in turn provides an […]

Toledo Bend Reservoir

Toldeo Bend Reservoir straddles the Texas-Louisiana border, and resides in Shelby, Sabine and Newton counties. The dam is located in Newton County, approximately 24 miles northeast of Jasper. The lake sprawls across 181,600 surface acres, with an average maximum depth of 110 feet. Aquatic vegetation in the lake consists primarily non-native submersed plants such as […]

Martin Creek Lake State Park

Martin Creek Lake State Park is composed of 286.9 acres, located in Rusk County, southeast of Longview. The property was acquired in 1976, and opened to the public that same year. The park is located on the 5,000 acre Martin Creek Lake, which was constructed to provide cooling water for a lignite-fired, electric power generation […]

Lake Raven

Lake Raven is located in Huntsville State Park. The lake is 203.5 surface acres, with an average maximum depth of 28 feet. Aquatic vegetation in the lake primarily consists of hydrilla. The a heavy infestation of hydrilla makes shoreline access difficult for bank anglers in many areas of the lake. Lake Raven is known for […]

Caddo Lake

Caddo Lake is located on the Texas-Louisiana state line, northeast of Marshall in Harrison and Marion counties. The lake sprawls across 26, 800 acres and averages a maximum depth of 20 feet. Approximately 60 percent of the lake is dominated by native submerged and emergent aquatic vegetation. Game fish on the Texas side of the […]

Lake Bob Sandlin State Park

Lake Bob Sandlin State Park is composed of 639.8 acres, located on the heavily-wooded shoreline of the 9,400 acre Lake Bob Sandlin. The park is southeast of Mount Pleasant, in Titus County. Park property was acquired in 1979 and the park was opened in 1987. There is evidence that the Caddo Indians once thrived in […]

Angelina River

ANGELINA RIVER Formed by the junction of Barnhardt, Scober, and Shawnee Creeks in Rusk County, the Angelina River flows about 119 miles through Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Angelina, San Augustine, and Jasper Counties, joining the Neches River 12 miles west of Jasper. The Angelina is a meandering stream flowing through forested bottomlands. The water is of high […]

Houston County Lake

Houston County Lake is located in Houston County, approximately 10 miles northwest of Crockett. The lake is 1,330 surface acres, with an average maximum depth of 40 feet. The lake has abundant standing timber in the upper end. Some native emergent and submergent vegetation is also present. Native emergent, as well as native submergent and […]

Lake O’ The Pines

Lake O’ The Pines is located 25 miles northeast of Longview in Marion, Morris, Upshur, and Camp counties. The lake is 16,919 surface acres, with a maximum depth of 49.5 feet. Aquatic vegetation covers roughly 15 to 20 percent of the lake’s surface area. The dominant species of vegetation include hydrilla, buttonbush, water primrose, and […]

The Sabine National Forest

The Sabine National Forest The Sabine National Forest is located near the Texas-Louisiana border, and covers a total of 160,609 acres in five counties: Sabine (95,410 acres), Shelby (59,037 acres), San Augustine (4,317 acres), Newton (1,781 acres), and Jasper (64 acres). The forest is administered with the other three National Forests, and two National Grasslands in […]

B.A. Steinhagen Lake

B.A. Steinhagen Lake is located on the Neches River, 14 miles west of Jasper, on US 190. The lake is 10,687 surface acres, with a maximum depth of 35 feet. The water body’s aquatic vegetation consists primarily of water hyacinth, hydrilla. In this shallow lake, the abundance of aquatic vegetation is relatively high. Predominant types […]

Tyler State Park

Tyler State Park is composed of 985.5 acres in Smith County, just north of Tyler, and encompasses a 64 acre lake. The park property was acquired in 1934. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) made the original improvements to the park, and opened to the public in 1939. The park lies within the hillsides of the […]

Cooper Lake State Park

Cooper Lake State park is located in northeast Texas, on 3,026 acres surrounding the young 19,300 acre water body, Copper Lake. The park is composed of two units. Doctors Creek Unit is the smaller of the two, totaling 715.5 acres, and is located in Delta County. South Sulphur Unit lies in northern Hopkins County, and […]

Village Creek State Park

Village Creek State Park is composed of 1,090 heavily forested acres, located in Hardin County, near Lumberton, just 10 miles south of Beaumont. The park property was acquired in 1979, but did not open to the public until 1994. The park is named for a free flowing stream which rises near the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation. […]

Hiking Through History at Mission Tejas State Park

Hiking Through History at Mission Tejas State Park By Dana Goolsby WECHES- What Mission Tejas State Park lacks in size and amenities it certainly makes up for in history. Located on the El Camino Real, Texas Highway 21, between Alto and Crockett, the 363-acre park marks the historic location of Mission San Francisco de los […]