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Hawn State Park is a public recreation area located 14 miles (23 km) southwest of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. [5] The state park's nearly 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) include three state-designated natural areas: Pickle Creek, LaMotte Sandstone Barrens, and Botkins Pine Woods. Orchid Valley is also considered part of Hawn State Park, but is not ...
Martin Dies, Jr. State Park: McKinney Falls State Park: Travis 744.4 acres (301 ha) 1976 McKinney Falls State Park: Meridian State Park: Bosque 505.4 acres (204.5 ha) 1935 Meridian State Park: Mission Tejas State Park: Houston 660 acres (270 ha) 1957 Mission Tejas State Park: Monahans Sandhills State Park: Ward, Winkler 3,840 acres (1,550 ha) 1957
The park is named after Terry Hershey, a conservationist who campaigned to keep the banks of Buffalo Bayou from being paved. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The park hosts a network of trails that run along the bayou from State Highway 6 to the Sam Houston Tollway and is a popular destination for local residents, runners, bicyclists and Geocachers .
Other major area parks include Harris County Clear Lake and Bay Area parks, Clear Creek Nature Park (League City) and Challenger 7 Memorial Park (Webster). Space Center Houston is the tourist arm of the Johnson Space Center and one of the most visited tourist attractions in Texas. [43]
Cooper Lake State Park is a Texas State Park in Delta and Hopkins counties, about three miles (5 km) south of Cooper, Texas. The park is situated on Jim Chapman Lake , formerly known as Cooper Lake.
Most of Hunters Creek Village is within the 77024 ZIP code, while the section south of the Buffalo Bayou has the 77063 ZIP code. The United States Postal Service location serving 77024 is the Memorial Park Post Office at 10505 Town and Country Way, Houston, Texas, 77024-9998.
Sheldon Lake is a reservoir in Sheldon Lake State Park (SLSP) located in Harris County [1] approximately 16 mi. (26 km) northeast of downtown Houston, Texas. It is positioned within the San Jacinto River Basin, on Carpenters Bayou. [2] It contains a variety of prairie and wetland habitats. [3]
Lakes of Parkway is a gated community in western Houston, Texas, also the most southern community in the Energy Corridor. [1] It has 888 lots. [ 2 ] Peggy O'Hare of the Houston Chronicle stated in 2002 that the houses were "upscale".