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Hill Country State Natural Area (HCSNA) preserves 5,369 acres (21.73 km 2) of rugged, relatively pristine Hill Country terrain in Bandera County, Texas. [2] It was opened to the public in 1984. Since HCSNA is designated a "Natural Area" rather than a "State Park", the first priority of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is the ...
The Texas Hill Country is a geographic region of Central and South Texas, forming the southeast part of the Edwards Plateau. Given its location, climate, terrain, and vegetation, the Hill Country can be considered the border between the American South and Southwest . [ 1 ]
1,561 acres are owned by Sabine River Authority of Texas, the WMA Pawnee Inlet Unit (north of the lake) has 1,381 acres, the Caddo Creek Unit (east of the lake) has 162 acres (Hunt County), the Duck Cove Unit (south of the lake) has 792 acres, with a small portion in Hunt County and the remaining land in Van Zandt County Area 2 Tony Houseman WMA
Part of Morton's argument was that the Texas Hill Country had been settled by many German and Czech immigrants in the middle-19th century, and nude sunbathing had been a part of their culture. An appeals court ruled in favor of the county in 1999, and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case ( Central Texas Nudists vs. Travis County ) in ...
Lake Lyndon B. Johnson (more commonly referred to as Lake LBJ and originally named Lake Granite Shoals) is a reservoir on the Colorado River in the Texas Hill Country about 45 miles northwest of Austin. The reservoir was formed in 1950 by the construction of Granite Shoals Dam by the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA).
Echo Hill Ranch is a summer ranch camp of about 400 acres (1.6 km 2) in the Texas Hill Country. Echo Hill Ranch. The ranch was founded in 1953 by Dr. S. Thomas Friedman and Minnie Samet Friedman. It is located south of Kerrville near Medina. Echo Hill was founded as a noncompetitive, child-centered ranch camp for boys and girls ages 6–14.
Bare Acres Retreat [218] is a clothing-optional campground in Putnam County. Cactus Canyon Campground, near Ava, a male-only nude campground; Forty Acre Club, [219] in Lonedell, a family-friendly nudist campground; Heartland Naturists, [220] a non-landed group organized in Kansas City affiliated with The Naturist Society
Texas Hill Country: website, 100 acres Dogwood Canyon Audubon Center: Cedar Hill: Dallas: North Texas: website, 205 acres East Texas Ecological Education Center: Tyler: Smith: Northeast Texas: website, 82 acres, visitor's center, indoor and outdoor classrooms, wetlands, grasslands and ponds Eaton Hill Nature Center: Sonora: Sutton: Texas Hill ...