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Depression-era
Roadside Parks in East Texas by Bob Bowman
Woodville
- A roadside park beside U.S. Highway 287 northwest of Woodville
is a wonderful place just for sitting on a park bench, listening
to the sounds of the forest, and dipping your toes in a spring-fed
pool built by Civilian Conservation Corps workers in the 1930s.
Families come here for reunions, kids enjoy running around the expansive
grounds, and Scout troops often camp beneath the tall trees. (From
"Out-of-the-way
places" by Bob Bowman)
Jonesboro
- "... Jonesboro, wiped out by a flash flood in the 1840s,
is not even a ghost town anymore. Only an old tombstone reminds
one of what used to be there. The site is now a roadside park on
FM 410, near Kiomatia, Red River County."
Love's
Lookout - Perched atop a scenic forested ridge beside U.S. Highway
69 north of Jacksonville, Love's Lookout offers perhaps the grandest
view in East Texas. ... There are two great times to visit the hilltop
-- in the spring, when the dogwoods and other spring flowers are
in bloom, and the autumn, when the hillside is ablaze with red,
purple, yellow and golden foliage.
Old
Mill Creek - near Brenham,
Texas
Texas'
First Roadside Park - Newton County, East Texas
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Texas
Roadside Parks - Forum
A few years
ago I stopped at a roadside park in Far West Texas, very close to
the New Mexico border, located in the middle of NOWHERE. The interesting
and humorous thing about the park was signs posted everywhere warning
of rattlesnake nests. (What a great welcome, what a great location).
The location of the roadside park with beware of rattlesnakes
signs, I think, (memory... download...crash...human disk full..
error) is between Hobbs, NM and Seminole
TX, on HWY 62.
I failed to take a picture of this truly unique park. Seen it ?
Been there ? Got the T-Shirt ? Would love to have a memento of my
stop - D. Stephens, February 16, 2001
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