All About Us!

Join us to experience the park, like it's your first time, on our Creekfield Lake Trail. First time or 50th time at our park? Join us at our 0.5-mile paved trail to explore our diverse ecosystem. Along the trail, read and enjoy our bronze plates showcasing a few ......More

Join us to experience the park, like it's your first time, on our Creekfield Lake Trail. First time or 50th time at our park? Join us at our 0.5-mile paved trail to explore our diverse ecosystem. Along the trail, read and enjoy our bronze plates showcasing a few key residents. This short but highly information guided hike will remind you why you love our park. Meet at the Nature Center to start this hike.Need to bring: Hats, sunscreen, water, binoculars, and your camera! 

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Wildcraft: Hummingbirds!

Join us to learn about alligators through storytime and get creative making crafts! Shining, shimmering, splendid!Some people call hummingbirds the jewels of the sky. Come by the Nature Center today to learn about some of our favorite little avians and leave with......More

Join us to learn about alligators through storytime and get creative making crafts! Shining, shimmering, splendid!Some people call hummingbirds the jewels of the sky. Come by the Nature Center today to learn about some of our favorite little avians and leave with a hummingbird mask that you make yourself!

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Alligators: From Egg to Apex

Join us to hear how the largest predator at Brazos Bend starts at the bottom! They are the rulers of the swamps, but they start life at the bottom. Discover everything about the epic lives of Brazos Bend’s most popular resident!Meet at the Nature Center for an am......More

Join us to hear how the largest predator at Brazos Bend starts at the bottom! They are the rulers of the swamps, but they start life at the bottom. Discover everything about the epic lives of Brazos Bend’s most popular resident!Meet at the Nature Center for an amazing program.

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All About Us!

Join us to experience the park, like it's your first time, on our Creekfield Lake Trail. First time or 50th time at our park? Join us at our 0.5-mile paved trail to explore our diverse ecosystem. Along the trail, read and enjoy our bronze plates showcasing a few ......More

Join us to experience the park, like it's your first time, on our Creekfield Lake Trail. First time or 50th time at our park? Join us at our 0.5-mile paved trail to explore our diverse ecosystem. Along the trail, read and enjoy our bronze plates showcasing a few key residents. This short but highly information guided hike will remind you why you love our park. Meet at the Nature Center to start this hike.Need to bring: Hats, sunscreen, water, binoculars, and your camera! 

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The Bows that Shaped Texas

Come learn about how one nation changed Texan culture and history forever! The Karankawa people of Coastal Texas had a unique style of bow-making (bowyery) that allowed them to thrive on the coast and range up to 200 miles inland. But everything changed when anot......More

Come learn about how one nation changed Texan culture and history forever! The Karankawa people of Coastal Texas had a unique style of bow-making (bowyery) that allowed them to thrive on the coast and range up to 200 miles inland. But everything changed when another nation attacked!Come to the Nature Center to discover how one nation and their methods of bowyery reshaped Texan culture and history forever.

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Birding Hike

Brazos Bend State Park is home to over 300 species of birds making it the perfect place to bird-watch all year round! Meet at the restrooms in the day-use area at Elm Lake to enjoy a guided hike focusing on the diverse bird population inhabiting the area. Learn t......More

Brazos Bend State Park is home to over 300 species of birds making it the perfect place to bird-watch all year round! Meet at the restrooms in the day-use area at Elm Lake to enjoy a guided hike focusing on the diverse bird population inhabiting the area. Learn to identify different species by sight and sound.This trail is 1.7 miles long, relatively flat and graveled, and easily accessible for anyone that wants to join us!Don't forget to bring your binoculars, field guides, hat, and plenty of water! 

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All About Us!

Join us to experience the park, like it's your first time, on our Creekfield Lake Trail. First time or 50th time at our park? Join us at our 0.5-mile paved trail to explore our diverse ecosystem. Along the trail, read and enjoy our bronze plates showcasing a few ......More

Join us to experience the park, like it's your first time, on our Creekfield Lake Trail. First time or 50th time at our park? Join us at our 0.5-mile paved trail to explore our diverse ecosystem. Along the trail, read and enjoy our bronze plates showcasing a few key residents. This short but highly information guided hike will remind you why you love our park. Meet at the Nature Center to start this hike.Need to bring: Hats, sunscreen, water, binoculars, and your camera! 

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Wildcraft: Alligators!

Join us to learn about alligators through storytime and get creative making crafts! Listen to the story "Never Kiss an Alligator" and make your very own alligator puppet! This is a great way for kids to learn about Brazos Bend's most popular resident while having......More

Join us to learn about alligators through storytime and get creative making crafts! Listen to the story "Never Kiss an Alligator" and make your very own alligator puppet! This is a great way for kids to learn about Brazos Bend's most popular resident while having fun making crafts! Meet outside the Nature Center for this program.

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Spectacular Snakes!

Join us for a talk about our slithery friends, the snakes! Life is rough when most people are scared of you, but it doesn’t seem to faze most snakes here at Brazos Bend State Park! These cold-blooded reptiles are even cooler once you learn all about their amazing......More

Join us for a talk about our slithery friends, the snakes! Life is rough when most people are scared of you, but it doesn’t seem to faze most snakes here at Brazos Bend State Park! These cold-blooded reptiles are even cooler once you learn all about their amazing adaptations. Join us to discover all about one of nature’s most magnificent creatures and meet a special guest up close and personal!Meet outside the Nature Center for this program.

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All About Us!

Join us to experience the park, like it's your first time, on our Creekfield Lake Trail. First time or 50th time at our park? Join us at our 0.5-mile paved trail to explore our diverse ecosystem. Along the trail, read and enjoy our bronze plates showcasing a few ......More

Join us to experience the park, like it's your first time, on our Creekfield Lake Trail. First time or 50th time at our park? Join us at our 0.5-mile paved trail to explore our diverse ecosystem. Along the trail, read and enjoy our bronze plates showcasing a few key residents. This short but highly information guided hike will remind you why you love our park. Meet at the Nature Center to start this hike.Need to bring: Hats, sunscreen, water, binoculars, and your camera! 

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Alligators: From Egg to Apex

Join us to hear how the largest predator at Brazos Bend starts at the bottom! They are the rulers of the swamps, but they start life at the bottom. Discover everything about the epic lives of Brazos Bend’s most popular resident!Meet at the Nature Center for an am......More

Join us to hear how the largest predator at Brazos Bend starts at the bottom! They are the rulers of the swamps, but they start life at the bottom. Discover everything about the epic lives of Brazos Bend’s most popular resident!Meet at the Nature Center for an amazing program.

BrazosBendStatePark Map&Directions

All About Us!

Join us to experience the park, like it's your first time, on our Creekfield Lake Trail. First time or 50th time at our park? Join us at our 0.5-mile paved trail to explore our diverse ecosystem. Along the trail, read and enjoy our bronze plates showcasing a few ......More

Join us to experience the park, like it's your first time, on our Creekfield Lake Trail. First time or 50th time at our park? Join us at our 0.5-mile paved trail to explore our diverse ecosystem. Along the trail, read and enjoy our bronze plates showcasing a few key residents. This short but highly information guided hike will remind you why you love our park. Meet at the Nature Center to start this hike.Need to bring: Hats, sunscreen, water, binoculars, and your camera! 

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Wildcraft: Dragonflies!

Learn all about dragonflies and make a jeweled dragonfly to take home! Join us at the Nature Center for a story about our flying insect residents, dragonflies! Then you'll make a jeweled dragonfly magnet to bring home!

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Alligators: From Egg to Apex

Join us to hear how the largest predator at Brazos Bend starts at the bottom! They are the rulers of the swamps, but they start life at the bottom. Discover everything about the epic lives of Brazos Bend’s most popular resident!Meet at the Nature Center for an am......More

Join us to hear how the largest predator at Brazos Bend starts at the bottom! They are the rulers of the swamps, but they start life at the bottom. Discover everything about the epic lives of Brazos Bend’s most popular resident!Meet at the Nature Center for an amazing program.

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All About Us!

Join us to experience the park, like it's your first time, on our Creekfield Lake Trail. First time or 50th time at our park? Join us at our 0.5-mile paved trail to explore our diverse ecosystem. Along the trail, read and enjoy our bronze plates showcasing a few ......More

Join us to experience the park, like it's your first time, on our Creekfield Lake Trail. First time or 50th time at our park? Join us at our 0.5-mile paved trail to explore our diverse ecosystem. Along the trail, read and enjoy our bronze plates showcasing a few key residents. This short but highly information guided hike will remind you why you love our park. Meet at the Nature Center to start this hike.Need to bring: Hats, sunscreen, water, binoculars, and your camera! 

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The Old Tree's Beard: Garlands of the Swamp

Come learn about those weird, gray vines hanging from our trees: Spanish moss! Spanish moss is an important part of the ecosystem here at Brazos Bend State Park, but there are a lot of misconceptions about what it is, what it does, and how useful it is for the en......More

Come learn about those weird, gray vines hanging from our trees: Spanish moss! Spanish moss is an important part of the ecosystem here at Brazos Bend State Park, but there are a lot of misconceptions about what it is, what it does, and how useful it is for the environments that it grows in. Join us at the Nature Center where we'll discover how amazing this mysterious plant really is!

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