Texas Outdoor Families in State Parks, 1
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife
The Texas Outdoor Families Program is expanding. In addition to offering workshops at city parks, now families can learn outdoor skills at nearby state parks.
Every Texas Outdoor Family Program that we offer in state parks is going to be less than an hour’s drive for most people.
Chris Holmes is a regional interpretive specialist charged with coordinating the state park program, which, he says, is in response to a decline in families tent camping.
Through our research, we know that people want to go back to state parks. We really know that they want to learn how to camp, but simply just don’t know how to, or have a little bit of fear about going out to a state park. So, this is in a family friendly environment where no experience is necessary.
And neither is equipment.
We’ll be providing the basic equipment; we’ll provide tents, sleeping mats, lanterns, and stoves and cookware and plates and so, there’ll just be a list of real basic things that we think a family should need to bring like flashlights. And, we’ll provide a menu so that the families can go to the store and buy some groceries for the actual weekend, and then we’ll teach them how to make some good camp food.
The first workshop is August fourth in Galveston. We have details at passporttotexas.org.
That our show for today…remember: life’s better outside. For Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti.
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