LAKE TEXANA 25TH ANNIVERSARY : Celebrate the 25th 
anniversary of Lake Texana State Park ... details on 
Passport To Texas.

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

On September 9, Lake Texana State Park will celebrate 
25 years of providing the public outdoor recreation and 
education with a free festival. The park recalls the 
improvements and success since first opening the gates 
in Edna, Texas. 

We opened the state park in 1981, Labor Day, first park here in 
Jackson County. We've added 6 miles of trail which we didn't 
have at the beginning. In those 25 years, we've installed a nature 
center and hired an interpretive ranger. 
 
David Lopez, Park Superintendent for Lake Texana State 
Park.

With our 25 years of being open, we want to reacquaint our public 
to Lake Texana State Park and just to get out and enjoy the 
outdoors. We want to just keep our park here in the public eye, 
and for a lot of our long time visitors, give them something to 
celebrate, be apart of our park family. And also to new people 
who have not know about Lake Texana State Park. 

To commemorate the anniversary, expect to see some 
special visitors in the park, as well as plenty of activities 
for the whole family to enjoy. 

We're going to have the Buffalo Soldiers here, along with the 
Austin Rangers. Operation Game Thief's going to put up a trailer. 
We have fisheries, touch tanks. We're going to have a barbeque, 
and arts and crafts shows, and lots of things for the kids. 
 
Details about Lake Texana's 25th Anniversary can be 
found on the Texas Parks & Wildlife website. 

That's our show for today ... produced with help from 
Loren Seeger ... For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia 
Nasti.