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This state park encompassing spring-fed Cedar Lake provides a good intro to Cross Timbers region ecology with chances to see coyotes and bobcat along 6 mi of trail.
Cleburne State Park is a 528-acre (2.14 km2) state park in Johnson County, Texas, United States operated by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The park includes the 116-acre (0.47 km2), spring-fed Cedar Lake that was created by construction of an earthen dam by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).
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Among other things, it has a restored log courthouse, pretty much a unique oddity you'll seldom find anywhere, plus a blacksmith shop and other nostalgia, then Native American exhibits.
Park with trails.
This is a park with no paved trails, but plenty of space for picnics and walking. There is one volleyball court.
A park with a walking trail and a pavilion with picnic tables. This park includes a Texas Wildscapes Wildlife Habitat Demonstration Site as well as a flowerbed full of different types of Iris flowers.
Urban park with a historic locomotive on display. What is left of the historic Tris Speaker Field is here. The park includes the baseball field named Don Moore Field, the city pool known as "Splash Station", a playground, horseshoe pits, multiple picnic shelters, tennis courts, a basketball court, a gazebo, and a walking trail that encompasses the property.
Gone With The Wind Fans ought to like this one.