CAPROCK CANYONS: Get a sense of Texas' early past at this 
Panhandle Park ... details on Passport to Texas.

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

With its high red cliffs of sandstone and shale, crossed by 
shimmering bands of white gypsum, and a landscape 
mostly unchanged from when early native peoples 
traversed the rugged terrain, Caprock Canyons State Park 
and Trailway inspires awe. 

[:02 wind blowing] This place draws people in; summer, winter, 
fall, spring. It's the natural beauty that we have here at Caprock 
canyons State Park. :07 [:01 wind blowing]

C.L. Hawkins is Wildlife Technician at the site. The Park's 
trailway offers visitors hiking, biking and equestrian 
opportunities ... and a chance to see nature's masterpiece 
up close.

The trailway originally was a railroad that came from Estellene; 
the trail is sixty-four miles long. There's over forty bridges, or 
trestles ... the tunnel is over seven hundred feet long. There's 
thousands of freetail bats that come in an stay in their colony 
every year at the tunnel trailway. :18 [:02--bats leaving tunnel] 

To enhance your outdoor experience, the visitor's center 
provides new interpretive exhibits. Deanna Oberheu (O-
bur-hew) was park superintendent when the new exhibits 
were installed in November. 
 
The interior exhibits primarily focus on the natural resources on 
the park and on the trailway. We have a real nice geologic wall 
that people can ask questions and look at what they might see 
out there while there's a ranger nearby that can explain things. 
And, there's a mock-up of clarity tunnel that a lot of people 
don't get out to see, because it's pretty remote. :19

Discover Caprock Canyons SP & Trailway for yourself -- 
get started at passporttotexas.org.

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


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