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Texas' 80,000 miles of highway are diverse and beautiful. East Texas drives are lush with roadside forests, while West Texas highways cast shimmering mirages in the heat. Wildflowers cover the roadsides in the Hill Country, and endless ocean is the backdrop for beach drives. This month, Texas Parks & Wildlife magazine photographers Earl Nottingham and Chase Fountain take us down 7 of their favorite Texas byways.
Park Road 16 in Tyler State Park loops around the 985-acre park, showcasing the picturesque, peaceful 64-acre Tyler State Park Lake at its center. Towering 100-foot pines shade the scenic drive, where you can spot wildlife and watch paddlers and anglers.
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The drive into one of Texas’ most iconic state parks gives you the feeling of being transported back into time, historically and geologically. Park Road 5 rapidly descends from flat and rolling High Plains grasslands down to the canyon floor, surrounded by multicolored layers of sandstone, carved over the eons by the Prairie Dog Town Fork of the Red River.
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After leaving the mysterious bayous of Caddo Lake, this drive takes you through the historic town of Jefferson and leads past scenic Lake O’ the Pines before reaching Daingerfield State Park. Framed by towering East Texas woods, narrow Park Road 17 winds and undulates through the park before coming to an end at Lake Daingerfield. In autumn, the trees turn brilliant yellows, oranges and reds.
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