The long-awaited Palo Pinto Mountains State Park will open for visitors in North Texas on March 1, according to the Texas ...

Palo Pinto Mountains State Park, a 4,871-acre piece of land in North Texas, will open to the public for the first time this ...

Texas state parks attracted more than 9.2 million visitors in 2025, with one North Texas park drawing nearly a million guests ...

Outdoor adventurers are now able to hike, fish, camp, and explore a brand-new state park — the first new Texas state park in 25 years. Palo Pinto Mountains State Park opened Sunday, March 1.

Texas Parks and Wildlife warns avian influenza is spreading in wild birds. Here’s what officials say about risks to pets, people and backyard flocks.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is partnering with several agencies to accept applications for its Panhandle ...

The 2026 White Bass run is set to begin in the coming weeks, here's what the Texas Parks and Wildlife predicts the season will look like.

Whatever you do East Texas, don’t go on a bear hunt. Don’t go looking in caves, don’t go walking in tall grass. Leave your binoculars behind. The bears are here, but they’re best left alone, according ...

The funds are part of the department’s local parks grant program. During the last legislative session, about $60 million was allocated to TPWD for local parks in House Bill 500.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas Parks and Wildlife is honoring three employees who died after their helicopter crashed over the weekend in a West Texas wildlife preserve. It killed Dewey Stockbridge, a ...