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Do You Know Your Texas State Parks?
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After the state of Alaska with its 663,300 sq mi (square miles), Texas is the second largest state of the nation
with 268,597 sq mi. Picture the size of Texas in comparison to even a few countries; for example, Spain is only
195,364 sq mi, Germany is 137,983 sq mi, United Kingdom is 93,628 sq mi, France is 248,537 sq mi and Italy is
116, 347 sq mi. When we hear people saying that everything is BIG in Texas that is absolutely true.
The real size of the state becomes much more tangible when driving through Texas. Almost all we see in Texas
is truly as big as the territory of the state; freeways, schools, houses, highways, rivers, roads, trucks, cars and
even hamburgers, they are huge!
Among the many state treasurers Texas counts with a huge number of State Parks. Yes, Texas has 54 State
Parks. It is amazing!
When it comes to state parks and wildlife resources, Texas has a huge reservoir of wonderful State Parks, State
Forests, State Fisheries, National Forest, National Parks, National Historic Park, National Wildlife Refuges,
National Recreation Areas And National Seashores.
State of Texas
54 State Parks • 4 State Forests •1 State Historic Site
5 State Fish Hatcheries • 5 State Fish Hatcheries •2 National Parks
4 National Forests • 1 National Historic Site •1 National Historic Park
10 National Wildlife Refuges • 2 National Recreation Areas • 1 National Seashore
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Abilene State Park
Acton State Park
Atlanta State Park
Avalon State Park
Balmorhea State Park
Bastrop State Park
Baylor University State Park
Bentsen Rio Grande Valley State Park
Big Spring State Park
Birch Creek State Park
Blanco State Park
Bonham State Park
Buescher State Park
Caddo Lake State Park
Cleburne State Park
Copano Bay Causeway State Park
Daingerfield State Park
Davis Mountains State Park
Dinosaur Valley State Park
Eisenhower State Park
Falcon State Park
Fannin State Park
Fort Belknap State Park
Fort Griffin State Park
Fort Parker State Park
Galveston Island State Park
Garner State Park
Goliad State Park
Goose Island State Park
Huntsville State Park
Texas State Parks
Inks Lake State Park
Jim Hogg State Park
Kerrville State Park
Lake Bob Sandlin State Park
Lake Brownwood State Park
Lake Corpus Christi State Park
Lake Whitney State Park
Lockhart State Park
Longhorn Cavern State Park
Mac Kenzie State Park
Martinez State Park
Mission Tejas State Park
Monahans Sand Hills State Park
Monument Hill State Park
Mother Neff State Park
Nails Creek State Park
Palmetto State Park
Palo Duro State Park
Possum Kingdom State Park
San Jacinto State Park
Seminole Canyon State Park
Stephen F Austin State Park
Texas State Park
Tyler State Park
State Forests
E O Siecke State Forest
Fairchild State Forest
John H Kirby State Forest
W G Jones State Forest
Blanco River Park
Balmorhea State Park
State Historic Site
Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site
State Fish Hatcheries
Jasper State Fish Hatchery
Medina Lake State Fish Hatchery
State Fish Hatchery Number 1
State Fish Hatchery Number 2
Wood State Fish Hatchery
National Parks
Big Bend National Park
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
National Forests
Angelina National Forest
Davy Crockett National Forest
Sabine National Forest
Sam Houston National Forest
National Historic Site
Fort Davis National Historic Site
National Historic Park
San Antonio Missions National Historic Park
National Wildlife Refuges
Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge
Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge
Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge
Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge
Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge
San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge
Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge
Texas Point National Wildlife Refuge
National Recreation Areas
Amistad National Recreation Area
Lake Meredith National Recreation Area
National Seashore
Padre Island National Seashore
Caddo Lake State Park
Padre Island National Seashore
Golden-Cheeked Warbler
at Meridian State Park
Lake Amistad
Guadalupe River State Park
Padre Island National Seashore
Longhorn Caverns State Park
Battleship Texas State Park
In the middle of the decade of the 1980s, everyone surrendered to the cultural phenomena of Trivial Pursuit. About 37 years later to this 2017 some folks
from Texas still find a great attraction to what it could be popular knowledge of the great State of Texas. You are invited to try answering some of the
next 24 questions about Texas State Parks. Answers are hidden to your view, however if you place the mouse over the arrow mark symbol, you’ll see the
correct answer. Have fun!
1. What state park is located in the “Sahara of the Southwest?”
2. Where was the last Indian battle fought in Texas?
3. What state park is on the largest naturally formed major lake in Texas?
4. What was the first state park in Texas?
5. What state park commemorates the fist Spanish mission in Texas?
6. What park preserves more than 100 dinosaur tracks?
7. Where would you go to see the “Lost Pines?”
8. What park is the headquarters for the official state longhorn herd?
9. What is the smallest state park in Texas?
10. What two parks preserve ancient outdoor art galleries in the Southwest?
11. What park offers visitors a railroad ride into the past?
12. What park is the northernmost breeding ground for the rare and threatened golden-
cheeked warbler?
13. What is the only floating state park in Texas?
14. What state park is underground?
15. What group purchased Enchanted Rock and held it until the state could buy the
park?
16. What park preserves the largest coastal live oak in the nation?
17. What state park offers airboat rides, canoe trails, observation blinds and camping
platform in a marsh?
18. What state park preserves the Spanish Mission Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo de
Zuñiga, built in 1749?
19. What three parks are located on coastal barrier islands?
20. What state park has a monument taller than the Washington Monument?
21. What park features maple trees that turn spectacular fall colors?
22. What West Texas state park features a 1.75-acre, spring-fed swimming pool?
23. What to parks commemorate the birthplace of former Presidents of the United
States born in Texas?
24. What two state parks are located on the scenic Caprock Escarpment, which
separates the High Planes on the west and the Rolling Planes on the east?
