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Woodville
- A roadside park beside U.S. Highway 287 northwest of Woodville is a wonderful
place just for sitting on a park bench, listening to the sounds of the forest,
and dipping your toes in a spring-fed pool built by Civilian Conservation Corps
workers in the 1930s. Families come here for reunions, kids enjoy running around
the expansive grounds, and Scout troops often camp beneath the tall trees. (From
"Out-of-the-way
places" by Bob Bowman)Jonesboro
- "... Jonesboro, wiped
out by a flash flood in the 1840s, is not even a ghost town anymore. Only an old
tombstone reminds one of what used to be there. The site is now a roadside park
on FM 410, near Kiomatia, Red River County." Love's
Lookout - Perched atop a scenic forested ridge beside U.S. Highway 69
north of Jacksonville, Love's Lookout offers perhaps the grandest view in East
Texas. ... There are two great times to visit the hilltop -- in the spring, when
the dogwoods and other spring flowers are in bloom, and the autumn, when the hillside
is ablaze with red, purple, yellow and golden foliage. Old
Mill Creek - near Brenham,
TexasTexas'
First Roadside Park - Newton County, East Texas |
Texas
Roadside Parks - ForumA
few years ago I stopped at a roadside park in Far West Texas, very close to the
New Mexico border, located in the middle of NOWHERE. The interesting and humorous
thing about the park was signs posted everywhere warning of rattlesnake nests.
(What a great welcome, what a great location).
The location of the roadside
park with beware of rattlesnakes signs, I think, (memory... download...crash...human
disk full.. error) is between Hobbs, NM and Seminole TX, on HWY 62.
I
failed to take a picture of this truly unique park. Seen it ? Been there ? Got
the T-Shirt ? Would love to have a memento of my stop - D. Stephens, February
16, 2001
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us.
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