Texas Finalizes the Deal on Its Second-Largest State Park

Texas’s biggest state park is and probably always will be Big Bend Ranch, whose 311,000 acres sit across from Big Bend National Park. The state’s second-biggest, however, has long been out of reach to Texans: The 39,000-acre Chinati Mountains State Natural Area, even though the property was acquired in the nineties, still isn’t open to the public and won’t be unveiled until at least 2032. Close behind, at 37,000 acres, is Devils River State Natural Area, which is notoriously difficult to access.But that’s all about to change. Today Texas Parks and Wildlife announced the acquisition of a whopping 54,000 acres of land around 125 miles west of San Antonio, which will become Silver Lake State Park and Texas’s second-largest state park to date.The property is…

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