Two kayakers paddling around a bend on Village Creek through cypress and Spanish moss in Southeast Texas

Kayaking Village Creek — The Complete Paddling Trail Guide

Kayaking Village Creek is one of the best paddling experiences in Southeast Texas — a free-flowing creek with no dams, dark tannin water under towering bald cypress and river birch, white sand beaches around every other bend, and one of the most biologically diverse corridors in the entire Big…
Solo hiker on a pine forest trail at Huntsville State Park in the Sam Houston National Forest

Camping at Huntsville State Park — The Complete Guide

Camping at Huntsville State Park puts you in 2,083 acres of East Texas Pineywoods wrapped around a 210-acre lake, an hour north of Houston off I-45. It’s the closest true forest camping experience to the Houston metro — and it’s been drawing people out of the city since 1956,…
Kayaker paddling through marsh channels at Sea Rim State Park at sunrise on the Texas Gulf Coast

Sea Rim State Park — The Complete Guide

Camping at Sea Rim State Park puts you where the Gulf of Mexico meets 4,000 acres of coastal marsh at the far southeastern edge of Texas — 22 miles south of Port Arthur on TX-87, right on the edge of Sabine Pass. The park protects 5.2 miles of Gulf…
Campsite at Galveston Island State Park with marsh views and Gulf Coast wildlife at golden hour

Camping at Galveston Island State Park — The Complete Guide

Camping at Galveston Island State Park means the Gulf of America on one side and Galveston Bay on the other — 2,000 acres of the last undeveloped land on Galveston Island, stretched across five distinct coastal ecosystems from Gulf beach and sand dunes to salt marsh, coastal prairie, lagoon,…
Family camping and fishing at Sandy Creek Park on B.A. Steinhagen Lake in Southeast Texas

Camping at Sandy Creek Park — B.A. Steinhagen Lake Guide

Sandy Creek Park sits on the southeast shore of B.A. Steinhagen Lake about 12 miles west of Jasper — and camping here means camping at one of the most spacious, wildlife-rich Corps of Engineers campgrounds in Southeast Texas. At 78 sites spread across several loops with up to 100…