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Despite being limited to 6 acres, this place offers a chance for some environmental education on the Rio Grande Valley, discovering the habitat it provides for a number of bird, reptile, and botanical species. Through bogs and gardens, look out for such things as butterflies and kiskadees on the trail.
Valley Nature Center is a 6-acre park and nature preserve in Gibson City Park, Weslaco, Texas. Its focus is environmental education about the natural history of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
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Exhibits on local history, e.g. fossils, costumes, Harlon Block (one of the Marines who planted the American flag on Iwo Jima).
A 15 acre property that provides habitat to butterflies, birds, and animals in Tamaulipan Thornscrub forest and wetland habitat.
Offering the comforts of popcorn and a movie.
Another preserve with state park status, this larger expanse, as in 230 acres, has a grebe pond and lots of rushes and trails along Llano Grande Lake for exploration.