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San Antonio Missions National Historical Park (1 C, 10 P) Pages in category "National Park Service areas in Texas" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
The largest national park is Wrangell–St. Elias in Alaska: at over 8 million acres (32,375 km 2), it is larger than each of the nine smallest states. The next three largest parks are also in Alaska. The smallest park is Gateway Arch National Park, Missouri, at 192.83 acres (0.7804 km 2).
Guadalupe Mountains National Park is a national park of the United States in the Guadalupe Mountains, east of El Paso, Texas. The mountain range includes Guadalupe Peak , the highest point in Texas at 8,751 feet (2,667 m), and El Capitan used as a landmark by travelers on the route later followed by the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line.
The National Park Service manages 429 sites across the country, but only 63 of those have the “National Park” designation. Texas has two national parks within state lines — Big Bend and ...
Padre Island National Seashore (PINS) is a national seashore administered by the National Park Service, located on Padre Island off the coast of South Texas, USA. In contrast to South Padre Island , known for its beaches and vacationing college students, PINS is located on the north end of Padre Island and consists of a long beach where nature ...
Big Bend National Park is a national park of the United States located in West Texas, bordering Mexico. The park has national significance as the largest protected area of Chihuahuan Desert topography and ecology in the United States, [ 3 ] and was named after a large bend in the Rio Grande/Río Bravo . [ 4 ]
The National Park Service established the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) within the region in 1974 and it is recognized as a biosphere reserve by UNESCO. Although the diversity of animals in the area is high for a temperate zone with over 500 vertebrates, it is the complex mosaic of ecosystems and plant diversity that is particularly ...
In March of this year, an 80-year-old man from Alpine, Texas, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the National Park Service. Last December, a 43-year-old man died after collapsing ...