Take Your Sweetie to a State Park This Valentine’s Day
AUSTIN— With Valentine’s Day around the corner, folks everywhere are making plans for how to spend the day with the people they care about.
TPWD News Releases
Feb. 11, 2014
Public Invited to Outdoor Adventure Showcase at LBJ State Park
STONEWALL — Lyndon B. Johnson State Park and Historic Site presents a day of family fun from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22, featuring adventure and hands-on experiences for all ages. Representatives from a dozen central Texas state parks and state natural areas will be on hand to showcase the area’s rich natural and cultural resources.
Feb. 5, 2014
Texas State Parks Announce Spring Camping Workshops for Houston Families
HOUSTON – Texas Outdoor Family, a Texas State Park family camping program, will host spring and summer family camping workshops at Brazos Bend, Huntsville and Galveston Island state parks to teach families the basics of camping and enjoying the great outdoors.
Fly Fish Texas March 8 at Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center
ATHENS—Learn to tie a fly, cast a fly and catch a fish all in one day during the annual Fly Fish Texas event at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center March 8.
Feb. 3, 2014
Rowlett Angler Catches Latest Toyota ShareLunker
ATHENS—Lake Palestine produced its second Toyota ShareLunker in less than a year Saturday when Casey Laughlin of Rowlett pulled in a 13.22-pound bass while fishing a Media Bass tournament.
Jan. 30, 2014
Lake Livingston State Park Piloting New Campsite Reservation System
LIVINGSTON – Campers planning to visit Lake Livingston State Park in the Pineywoods can now select a specific campsite while making reservation under a one-year pilot program introduced recently. The site-specific reservations policy is unprecedented in the Texas State Park system, which has always operated on a first-come, first-served basis when securing a campsite.
Bike the Trails in Texas State Parks this February
AUSTIN— February offers an ideal time to pack up your bike and explore hundreds of miles of trails that wind through Texas State Parks. The parks’ safe and scenic environments offer both easy and challenging rides hugging lake shores, beneath towering pines, through rolling hills and along mountain trails open to exploration any day of the week.
Learn Fly-Fishing at Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center
ATHENS— The Dallas Fly Fishers will teach morning and afternoon classes for beginning fly-fishers at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center’s (TFFC) Fly Fish Pavilion on Saturday, March 8th.
Jan. 27, 2014
Lake Athens Produces Another Toyota ShareLunker
ATHENS—Rip van Winkle slept for 20 years. Lake Athens snoozed for 25. Then the 1,799-acre lake near the East Texas town of the same name awoke from its slumber and began spitting out 13-pound bass.
Jan. 21, 2014
Tree Planting Slated for San Jacinto Battleground Prairie
LAPORTE – Volunteers from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Shell Oil Co. and Apache Corporation on Feb. 6 will be planting almost 300 trees at San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site as part of an ongoing prairie restoration project.