Lone Star Travelers Blog

 

 This popular program was initiated for one year and has now been changed to ongoing.  Your fishing license requirement and any accompanying stamp is waived once you have paid the entrance fee if you fish inside the property boundary of a Texas State Park. (more…)

 

Visit our Tyler State Park Photo Gallery Approximately 100 miles East of Dallas Texas in Smith County you will find the popular Tyler State Park.  The cities of Canton, Marshall, Longview and of course Tyler itself are close by carrying over a very urban feel to the park.  When we visited in March 2007 parents of camping families were actually driving their kids back and forth to school at the nearby cities.  At 985 acres this is a fairly small park with a pretty but also small (64 acre) spring fed lake. (more…)

 

Visit our Cleburne State Park Photo Gallery. Head southwest of Fort Worth Texas approximately 50 miles or so and you will find Cleburne State Park in Johnson County.  Opened in 1938 this is an older park and it is showing.  We observed that most of the buildings were in a minor state of disrepair.  This is a smaller park (528 acres) with  small Cedar (116 acre) Lake open to non motorized (or no more than 5 mph) water craft. (more…)