STATE PARK FALL FUN: What better way to enjoy the 
holidays than at your state parks ... details ahead on 
Passport to Texas.

This is Passport to Texas

November is the gateway to the holiday season. And that 
means Texas State Parks will be bustling with festive 
activities.

04 -- Yeah, we have a lot of fall activities happening in 
November.

Thomas Wilhelm works with Texas State Parks. 

13 -- For example, at Meridian State Park, which is just west of 
Waco, they're having a Thanksgiving recovery hike. So, the 
Saturday after Thanksgiving you can go out and hike off some of 
those calories that you may have picked up on Thanksgiving.

Want to go in the other direction and consume calories 
instead of burn them? Learn to make food fit for a 
holiday campout ... including sweet treats.

14 -- Palmetto State Park is having a harvest themed Dutch oven 
Cooking session, and Lyndon Baines Johnson State Park near 
Johnson City is having a holiday cookie decorating event as they 
start preparing for the Christmas season.

The folks at LBJ State Park even shared an old fashioned 
cookie recipe with us. Find it at passporttotexas.org.

11 -- The holidays tend to be so rushed -- and they're so 
commercialized -- so, parks offer an opportunity to slow down 
just a little bit. Take it in. And celebrate the holidays the way 
they were intended.

Go to texasstateparks.org/holidays for a list of all 
holiday events in parks.

That's our show for today ... Funding provided in part by 
Ram Trucks. Guts. Glory. Ram

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.