HOLIDAY SHOPPING AT STATE PARK STORES: Find out what's 
"in store" at your favorite state park ... details on Passport 
to Texas

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

The worst part about visiting a state park is leaving. Yet, 
if you make your last activity a shopping spree at the 
state park store before driving away, you'll depart with 
more than memories.

Our park stores are mainly an extension of the park experience. 
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Tony Lucio (loo-she-oh) oversees state park stores for 
Texas Parks and Wildlife. The park stores sell a wide 
variety of keepsakes and educational gifts that help to 
generate income for each location.

We want to provide our users, and our customers, a little 
something - whether it's an educational product - or something 
that will help enhance the experience. And so, they can take 
home some sort of memory of the park to commemorate their 
experience visiting the state parks. :16

You'll find a wide variety of mementos in the stores - 
many specific to the site you're visiting -- although some 
items rank high as visitor favorites.

Probably our number one and number two sellers in our park 
stores are our t-shirts and caps. Three and four would be our 
books. And then patches and magnets. :09

By the way, until December 31 when you purchase a state 
park pass or a gift certificate for a State Park Pass 
through our Austin reservation center, you will receive 
2008 state park ornament free. A state park pass makes 
a great gift for the state park enthusiast on your list. 

Find a link to state park stores at passporttotexas.org.

That's our show for today ... For Texas Parks and 
Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti


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