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Brazos Bend Trails West, TX
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| Hiking | 9.45 Miles |
152 AEG |
| | Hiking | 9.45 Miles | 4 Hrs 24 Mns | | 2.17 mph |
| 152 ft AEG | 3 Mns Break | | | |
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| partners | | I'm back in Texas again but this time Ginny and I took a five day trip to Houston. You are probably asking "why in the heck would anyone do that voluntarily". Well in part to hike the trails of the Brazos Bend State Park. Last time I was here the area was flooded and the park for the most part was under water so no hiking on that trip. This time the weather was good. I wanted to hike all the trails of the park and in the two days we were here we accomplished that for a total of 26 miles. I am quite comfortable in hiking in the desert or the mountains but swamplands are quite creepy, No off trail excursions in this stuff. There was lots of wildlife, Birds, Turtles, spiders, dear, armadillos, wild hogs and alligators. The trails in the park are quite flat with no elevation gain to speak of as would be expected. Saw quite a few alligators but this time unlike the first time I came here I didn't almost step on one. I was reading the trail map while walking and looked up to see an 8 foot alligator in the trail in front of me basking in the sun, had one eye open to see if I was going to step on him. No more reading maps or texting while walking.
The first part of the day we hiked on six different trails for 9.5 miles.
40 Acre Lake trail
Spillway Trail
horseshoe lake loop trail
Big Creek Loop Trail
Elm Lake Loop Trail
Pilant Slough Trail
If you are ever in the Houston area this is a must see park. The two days we hiked in the park I took almost 400 pictures. The wildlife is everywhere, mostly birds. The trails are for all age groups and the alligators are really quite docile if left alone. The down side of hiking in this parks is that there are no spectacular views. There is one 30 to 40 foot tower that does offer some views of the park and probably accounts for a good portion of the 150 foot AEG (not sure where the other 100 or so feet of AEG comes from). |
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