This sprawling, 3,800-acre property is just an hour outside of San Antonio and will become a new state park.
Courtesy of Texas Parks and Wildlife
Houston Chronicle
Steven Santana
A new report says that a massive piece of Texas Hill Country property just outside of San Antonio is one of three pieces of land set to become a new state park after years of legislative funding hold ups. The 3,800-acre property in the Pipe Creek area that was bought buy a family years ago to protect it from commercial builders is now being developed as a new piece
of land for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the Dallas Morning news reports.
But since then, Texas legislators have put up funding roadblocks for development of the land into a state park. From 2009 to 2015, legislators stopped TPWD from using any of its funding from sporting goods sales tax receipts for future parks, but over the past four years, that funding hurdle has cleared, the Dallas Morning News reports.
The TPWD website says that the park, when it opens, will allow visitors to camp, backpack, and hike the sprawling Hill Country land. The park will also offer limited mountain biking trails.
The other two parks set to open include the Powderhorn Ranch State Park that is about 150 miles southwest of Houston, and the Palo Pinto Mountains State Park, which is between Fort Worth and Abilene. Palo Pinto is set to open in 2024 while Powderhorn Ranch is still eight to 10 years from opening.