Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Palo Pinto Mountains are located in, and form part of, the Carbonate Cross Timbers, a level IV ecoregion defined by the Environmental Protection Agency. [7] However, the term "Palo Pinto Mountains" is also used colloquially to refer to a much larger area, essentially the entire portion of the much more extensive Western Cross Timbers ...
Palo Pinto Mountains State Park is an undeveloped 4,000 plus acre [1] state park in Palo Pinto and Stephens County, Texas near the City of Strawn. The park is located in the Western Cross Timbers Ecoregion .
This ecoregion exists as an enclave within the Western Cross Timbers, stretching from southern Jack County, Texas across northwestern Palo Pinto County into eastern Stephens County, as well as tiny parts of Young and Eastland counties. The region features a limestone substrate as opposed to sandstone, and has greater topographical relief and ...
There also aren’t many state parks near the Metroplex, which the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is hoping to address in part through the opening of Palo Pinto Mountains State Park, halfway ...
Palo Pinto Mountains State Park, North Texas’ first new state park in over 25 years, is raising funds for roads, campsites, trails and more.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Metcalf Gap is a pass through the Palo Pinto Mountains located in the Western Cross Timbers region of northern Texas.Located roughly midway between the towns of Breckenridge and Mineral Wells, the pass lies at an elevation of about 1,200 feet (370 m) and forms a distinct gap in the escarpment formed by the Palo Pinto Mountains, a fifteen-mile long range of cuesta-type hills that runs southwest ...
Palo Pinto County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 census, its population was 28,409. [1] The county seat is Palo Pinto. [2] The county was created in 1856 and organized the following year.