Passport to Texas

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

The Lake Somerville Complex includes the Birch Creek Unit, Nails Creek Unit, a trailway that connects the two parks, and a wildlife management area. Kim Ochs manages the complex.

Birch Creek is on the northwest side of lake Somerville; it lies in Burleson County, but we are about twenty miles from Caldwell and about seventeen miles from Somerville. We are in a rural area, but we get a lot of visitation from the Houston area.

What city dweller would not jump at the chance to escape the urban jungle for this rural oasis with its ample camping opportunities?

Over at Birch Creek, including our water only sites, which are just for tents, we’re going to have a total of 129. Nails Creek is a little bit smaller unit, and they’re going to have about 70 sites with their water and electricity.

This area also offers year-round equestrian trails, wildlife-viewing opportunities, and, of course—water recreation, which begins in spring with fishing.

You can almost set your clocks by it—from Memorial Day through Labor Day—it’s going to be the skier, the boater and the jet skier that’s going to come out here. After labor Day, this Lake is unique in that there are hunting opportunities provided by the US Army Corps of Engineers; and then, during the winter, once again, fishing takes over.

We have a link to the Lake Somerville State Park web page at passportotexas.org.

That’s our show… For Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti.

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