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TEXAS
RIVERS
The history, folklore,
towns, trips, ecology and images of Texas' major rivers.
Including information on related lakes, dams, reservoirs and parks.
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Rivers
in Texas
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Swimming
to Mexico Feature
A trip including 12 rivers, 7 State Parks, 2 Creeks and more
Springs than an old mattress
Rivers
Mentioned in Swimming to Mexico -
Their Lengths, Sources, and Termination Points.
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Blanco
River - Feature
Blanco, Blanco State Park, Five Mile Dam |
Colorado
River
Highland
Lakes and Dams
Feature
11-6-07
Dams: Tom Miller Dam, Mansfield Dam, Max Starke Dam, Wirtz
Dam, Inks Dam and Buchanan Dam
Lakes: Lake Austin, Lake Travis, Lake Marble Falls, Lake LBJ,
Inks lake, and Lake Buchanan |
Comal
River - Feature
New Braunfels, Landa Park, Hinman Island Park, Prince Sohms Park,
Tube Chute |
| Cypress
River - Caddo Lake |
| Devils
River - Devils River State Natural Area |
| Frio
River |
Guadalupe
River - Feature
River Road, Kerrville-Schreiner State Park, Guadalupe River State
Park, Cascade Cavern, Louise Hays Park, Max Starcke Park |
Llano
River - Images of bridge and dam
South
Llano River |
Navidad River
Wild
Navidad
by Mike Cox ("Texas Tales" Column)
The Navidad River is only 74 miles long but it is as tangled in
history and folklore as the vines and trees along its banks.
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Neches River
Neches
River by Bob Bowman ("All Things Historical"
Column)
"While environmentalists and water developers duel over the
merits of preserving the Neches River, the debate has largely overlooked
the river’s history. Sometimes called East Texas’ last wild river,
the Neches has been flowing though eastern Texas longer than any
of the remnants of mankind, even the earliest Indians."
Fort
Teran by Bob Bowman ("All Things Historical" Column)
Hidden deep in the woodlands bordering the Neches River are the
last remains of what may be the earliest fort built in East Texas.
And, perhaps, a buried treasure.
Neches
River in Beaumont, Texas
- Images
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Pecos
River - Feature River
The stories, information, towns, trips and images |
Pedernales
River
Pedernales River
- Pedernales Falls State Park Feature |
Rio Grande
Rio
Grande - A Flatboat Named Enchilada -
Hot Springs in Big Bend National Park, Crossing the Rio Grande
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Los
Ebanos and the last hand-operated ferry on the Rio Grande
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Sabinal River
"Arroyo
de la Soledad” AKA Sabinal River
Sabine
River ( Sabinal, Texas Hill Country Ghost Town)
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Sabine River
Adams-Onis-Treaty
by Archie P. McDonald ("All Things Historical" Column)
We have regarded the Sabine River as the boundary between Louisiana
and Texas, at least most of it, all our lives, but this was not
so until 1819...
Sabine
River ( East Texas Sunday Drive)
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San
Gabriel River - Feature
San Gabriel Park, Blue Hole |
San
Saba River - Feature
Mill Pond Park, Risien Park
San
Saba River swimming hole in Menard, Texas
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San Marcos
River
San
Marcos River in San Marcos
The river with its constant temperature of 71 degrees is the only
place known where Texas wild rice grows.
Aquarena
Springs
Aquarena Springs is primarily the source of the San Marcos River,
rising from hundreds of fissures under Spring Lake.
Zedler's
Mills in Luling
11-20-07
After nearly four decades, Zedler's Mills is revealed
from Nature's green cloak.
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Trinity River
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A
Steamboat’s Tale by Bob Bowman ("All Things Historical"
Column)
"Lying in the Trinity River at Parker’s Bluff, near Palestine,
a cluster of remnants from an old sidewheeler steamboat serve as
reminders of an era when cotton was king in much of East Texas...."
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More Texas
River Images
US
77 - South of Victoria The Guadalupe River, the San Antonio
River, Coleto Creek, the Mission River, the Aransas River, the Nueces
River and finally Los Olmos creek. 4-10-08
1935
Flood
11-7-07
Brazos
River near Stephen F. Austin State Park
4-3-08
Canadian
River 12-27-07
Colorado
River near Glen Flora
Leon
River in Hamilton County
Medina
River at Castroville Regional Park
Neches
River and bridges, Beaumont
San
Benito arroyo
San
Marcos River in Fentress, Texas 3-10-08
The
San Saba River at Menard's Stock Pens Crossing Park
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Texas
Waters
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| Lakes
in Texas |
Springs and
Falls
Aquarena
Springs,
San Marcos, Texas
Feature
Barton
Springs and Zilker Parks,
Austin's Crown Jewel Feature
Colorado Bend State Park,
Six miles of Lake Frontage
Feature
Davy
Crockett Spring,
Crockett, Texas Feature
Hamilton
Pool, Hamilton Pool, Westcave Preserve Feature
McKinney
Falls State Park,
McKinney Falls
Feature
Old
Pueblo Springs, Bronco, Texas Panhandle
Pedernales
Falls - Pedernales Falls State Park
San
Solomon Springs, Balmorrhea State Park, West Texas Feature
Soda
Springs, North end of Soda Lake
"The
Eyes of Father Margil" - Twin springs on LaNana Creek
Tinaja,
natural spring swimming hole
(vintage photo)
Woodville
- In the roadside park beside U.S. Highway 287 northwest of Woodville
is a spring-fed pool built by Civilian Conservation Corps workers
in the 1930s. (From "Out-of-the-way
places" by Bob Bowman)
A landmark
spring runs from a hillside beside U.S. 175 north of the Neches
River southeast of Frankston. (From
"Out-of-the-way
places" by Bob Bowman)
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Arroyo, Bayous
& Creeks
Alligator
Creek
: Bell County
Arroyo
Colorado : Harlingen, Texas 4-10-08
Arroyo
Colorado : Mercedes, Texas 4-10-08
Bear
Creek
: Kimble County
Burnt
Boot Creek : near Devine, Texas
Calf
Creek
Cibolo
Creek Park
: Boerne, Texas
Cowhouse
Creek : Pottsville, Texas
Dixon
Creek
: near Borger, Texas
Onion
Creek : Hays County
4-23-08
Pecan
Bayou : Burkett, Texas
4-14-08
Pederson
Creek
: McLean, Texas
Perdido
Creek
: Fannin, Texas 3-20-08
Rancho
Viejo
Salado
: W.A. Pace Park, Salado Creek Feature
South
Prong Creek
: Sabine County
Woman
Hollering Creek
Feature
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State Parks - Texas State parks, forest, and nearby towns. |
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