We recently took a trip East of Dallas to Lake Tawakoni State Park. It’s around 50 miles to the east of DFW and situated in serene countryside surroundings. The lake is named after the Tawakoni Indian people who lived in North Eastern Texas prior to the arrival of Europeans. At the park itself there’s a huge lake ideal for watersports and plenty of trails for hiking. For the fearless adventurers, the park also boasted the largest spiderweb in history situated in their ancient forests. I believe as well that you can get alligators in this park as well, but thankfully managed to give them a wide berth.
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Matt, I’m glad that you are enjoying Texas and I’m surprised that you think the Texas woodlands are similar to those in England. I’ve not been in the English woods, but my impression from seeing them on TV is that there is not much similarity, other than that each have hardwood trees. I have only been to Lake Tawakoni State Park on one occasion and that was to take my son and grandson on an overnight camping trip there a couple of years ago. It was the first time anyone other than me stayed overnight in my Sportsmobile.
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Hi Ken,
I hope you’re well,
Thanks, yeah i do see a lot of similarities in my opinion between back home and here in Texas. I grew up in a village with a lot of ancient woodland and the forests here are very similar i think. I’d like to try visit some of them in the winter though to get a different impression as the trees are more or less entirely deciduous at home to see if it’s the same here. That sounds like a great time, i hope you guys had a lot of fun. It’s a beautiful part of the world there!
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