Texas National Parks

Texas national parks house vast, diverse, wild landscape with massive earth faults, protected quarries, and miles and miles of barrier island seashore. While exploring these natural resources learn about the cultural history of the border coast, globally important bird areas, biospheres, international treaties, and the good and the bad of relations between the U.S. and Mexico.

Visit These Texas National Parks:

Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument: Imagine yourself standing where an ancient civilization once lived, surrounded by colorful flint that was used to make weapons and tools. Alibates flint is a beautiful multi-colored stone with the ability to hold a sharp edge. The only exposed source of Alibates flint is found in and around the park.

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Amistad National Recreation Area: Formed on the border of the US and Mexico, the reservoir abounds with water-based recreation, especially boating and fishing. Explore the beautiful rock structures and Indian rock art.

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Big Bend National Park: Sometimes considered "three parks in one," Big Bend includes mountain, desert, and river environments. An hour's drive can take you from the banks of the Rio Grande to a mountain basin nearly a mile high. Here, you can explore one of the last remaining wild corners of the United States, and experience unmatched sights, sounds, and solitude.

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Big Thicket National Preserve: Strands of sun, soil, and air are woven into a beautifully connected patchwork of plants and animals. The last Ice Age pushed plants from other parts of the country into a close neighborhood. An amazing diversity of plants and animals from many parts of North America live in the Big Thicket region of southeastern Texas.

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Chamizal National Memorial: To Mexicans, it is the Rio Bravo. North of the border, it is the Rio Grande. For hundreds of miles, the river separates the United States and Mexico, forming the major portion of the international line. And for more than a century the river’s role as border has been the cause of international discord.

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El Camino Real de Los Tejas National Historic Trail: ¡Hola! Bienvenidos al Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail. Come on a journey that will carry you through 300 years of Texas and Louisiana frontier settlement and development.

El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail: Take a journey on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail to savor 300 years of heritage and culture in the Southwest.

Fort Davis National Historic Site: With the dangers of Comanche and Apache, Fort Davis was strategically placed on the Trans-Pecos portion of the San Antonio-El Paso Road and on the Chihuahua Trail to protect mail and settlors alike. Come explore this well-preserved example of the American West.

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Guadalupe Mountains National Park: Explore the geology in Guadalupe Mountains. Walk the steps of early inhabitants Nde Apache, ranchers, pioneers and military.  Explore highlands that elk roam.

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Lake Meredith National Recreation Area: Contrasting spectacularly with its surroundings, Lake Meredith lies on the dry and windswept High Plains of the Texas Panhandle.  Dramatic 200 foot canyons carved by the Canadian River surround this 10,000-acre reservoir. The lake was created to supply water for 11 Panhandle cities and to create recreational opportunities such as fishing, boating, waterskiing, and sailing.

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Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park: Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park tells the story of our 36th President beginning with his ancestors until his final resting place on his beloved LBJ Ranch. This entire "circle of life" gives the visitor a unique perspective into one of America's most noteworthy citizens by providing the most complete picture of an American president.

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Padre Island National Seashore: Padre Island National Seashore, encompassing 130,434 acres, is the longest remaining undeveloped stretch of barrier island in the world. As a unit of the National Park Service, our mission is stated in the Federal Organic Act of 1916. The legislation that established Padre Island. 

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Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site: The jurisdiction of the United States…has passed the capes of Florida and been peacefully extended to the Del Norte." That’s how U.S. President James K. Polk, in his December 1845 message to Congress, characterized the recent annexation of Texas by the United States, with a boundary along the Rio Grande (or Rio Bravo del Norte).

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Rio Grande Wild & Scenic River: The Rio Grande flows from its headwaters in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado for 1,865 miles to the Gulf of Mexico near Brownsville, Texas. For 1,250 miles, the Rio Grande is the boundary between the United States and Mexico. In a remote stretch in west Texas, the river makes a curve to the northeast to form the "big bend." It is here that the wild character of the river lives on.

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San Antonio Missions National Historical Park: Tales of riches spurred early Spanish explorers northward across the Rio Grande. By the 17th century Spaniards penetrated areas to the east, encountering the Tejas Indians for whom Texas is named. As dreams of wealth faded, the Spanish concentrated their efforts more fully on the spreading of the Catholic faith – the basis of Spanish colonial society – among frontier Indians.

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