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Central Texas: website: Houston Arboretum and Nature Center: Houston: Harris: Texas Coastal Bend: 155 acres with over 5 miles of trails Jesse H. Jones Park & Nature Center: Humble: Harris: Texas Coastal Bend: website, operated by the County, 312 acres John Bunker Sands Wetland Center: Combine: Dallas County: North Texas: website, Private non ...
Armand Bayou Nature Center is an urban preserve located in Pasadena and southeast Houston between the Johnson Space Center and the Bayport Industrial District. The 2,500-acre (10 km 2 ) nature center is the largest urban wilderness preserve in the United States .
George Bush Park is a county park in Houston, Texas, United States, located on the far west side of the city.Situated entirely within Barker Reservoir, a large flood control structure, the park covers 7,800 acres (32 km 2), most of which is undeveloped forest used for the storage of floodwater. [2]
The Edith L. Moore Nature Sanctuary is a 17.5-acre (7.1 ha) nature sanctuary along Rummel Creek, located in Houston, Texas, in the United States. [1] Named after Edith Lotz Moore, who lived on the land with her husband for 43 years, the sanctuary includes a restored log cabin [2] for hosting educational programs and houses administrative offices for the Houston Audubon Society.
Pages in category "Nature reserves in Texas" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Texas City Prairie Preserve is a 2,300-acre (9.3 km 2) nature preserve located on the shores of Moses Lake and Galveston Bay in Texas City, Texas in the United States, near Houston. The preserve was created in 1995 by the Nature Conservancy thanks to a $2.2 million donation of land by ExxonMobil .
Ponderosa Forest is a master-planned community developed during the late 1960s and 1970s in multiple phases by the Kickerillo Companies in Harris County, Texas, within the northern limits of the City of Houston, Texas. Kickerillo Companies is one of Houston's largest homebuilding and land development companies.
One of Houston's oldest public parks, Hermann Park was created on acreage donated to the City of Houston by cattleman, oilman and philanthropist George H. Hermann (1843–1914). The land was formerly the site of his sawmill. [7] It was first envisioned as part of a comprehensive urban planning effort by the city of Houston in the early 1910s. [4]