Brazos Bend State Park
Brazos Bend State Park is sited 30 miles south of Houston in Needville, Texas, along the Brazos River. This park covers an area of almost 5000 acres. This park is very popular among the tourists for its lakes, creeks and marshes.
Attractions
This beautiful park is among America’s top 10 state parks. It includes almost 5,000 acres of lakes, prairies and bottomland hardwood forests. Areas of vast live oak trees covered with Spanish moss can also be found here. This park also possess 34 miles of multiple-use trails and the diverse ecology here offer visitors prime viewing of whitetail deer, alligator and more than 290 species of birds. Three small lakes and a winding, tree-lined creek which are all situated within the park offer excellent fishing facilities to the visitors.
Activities
This park is a mixture of many activities. It has lot of campgrounds in the vicinity. The activities in the park include hiking, camping, biking in its wide trails. Other recreational opportunities here include fishing, mountain biking and horseback riding. People can also enjoy picnicking with there family and friends near the lake area or within the peaceful wooded region.
Flora and Fauna
The remains of the primeval coastal prairie stay alive here and also the dense bottomland hardwood forests and extensive marshes, making this park perfect place for the American alligator and a good range of other reptiles, amphibians, and mammals. The park is a significant sanctuary for birds, with more than 300 species recorded, and wildflowers abound during the warmer months, drawing many butterflies to this region.
Attractions near this place
There are many attractive places near to this park. Some of the places are San Jacinto Battleground, Brazoria County Access Point, the Battleship, Galveston Island State Park, San Jacinto Monument, Sea Center Texas in Lake Jackson and the George Ranch.
Facilities
This park as many well maintained facilities for the visitors. Here you can usually find restrooms with showers, campsites with water and electricity, screened shelters, primitive equestrian campsite, a trailer dump station, a dining hall with ceiling fans, heat, kitchen facilities, a barbecue pit, tables and chairs, and a restroom. For those visitors who stop by during the day there are 3 separate picnic areas with picnic sites. Two picnic areas have a group picnic pavilion also.
This park also has a Nature Centre where you can get up close and personal with alligators. So, enjoy the facilities and activities of this park any time as Brazos Bend State Park is opened all the year round.