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Park activities include hiking, picknicking, rock climbing, primitive backpacking, camping, and caving. [11] The Summit Trail is the most popular hiking path. [12]Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) partners with Friends of Enchanted Rock, [13] a volunteer-based nonprofit organization that works for the improvement and preservation of Enchanted Rock State Natural Area.
Watchung Reservation is the largest nature reserve in Union County, New Jersey, United States. [1] The Watchung area is located on a ridge within northern-central New Jersey, as it consists mainly of the upper valley of Blue Brook, between the ridges of the First Watchung Mountain and Second Watchung Mountains.
Enchanted Rocks Preserve is a nature preserve owned and managed by The Wildlands Conservancy, a nonprofit land conservancy. Spanning over 14,000 acres (57 km 2 ) in Jefferson County, Oregon , northwest of Mitchell, the preserve includes a section of the National Wild and Scenic John Day River .
Kickapoo Cavern was opened as a state park in 1991. [2]Interesting features of the park include 20 known caves, two of which are large enough to be significant. [3] Kickapoo Cavern is approximately .25 mile in length (1400 feet).
Tyler State Park is a state park north of Tyler, Texas.It is 985.5 acres (399 ha) in Smith County, north of Tyler. The park includes a 64-acre (26 ha) lake. The land was deeded by private owners in 1934 and 1935; original improvements were made by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).
The park also features the Smith Rock Shelter, a limestone overhang used for shelter by Native Americans for hundreds of years, along with the ruins of McKinney's stone house, gristmill and his horse trainer's cabin. The Smith Rock Shelter and the McKinney homestead have each been added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Cleburne State Park is a 528-acre (2.14 km 2) Texas state park in Johnson County, Texas operated by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.The park includes the 116-acre (0.47 km 2), spring-fed Cedar Lake that was created by construction of an earthen dam by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
In 1993, a hiking, biking, and equestrian rail trail opened that stretches through the park through Floyd, Briscoe, and Hall counties. The trailway was created after the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department acquired 64.25 miles (103 km) of right-of-way from the abandoned Fort Worth and Denver Railroad's lines between Estelline and South Plains. [3]