Escondido Lake Vacation and Resort Properties

Escondido Lake is created by Escondido Lake Dam on Escondito Creek in Kleberg County, Texas and is used for fish and wildlife protection purposes. Construction of Escondido Lake Dam was completed in 1938. It is property of King Ranch Inc.

 

 

Nearby Attractions

Padre Island National Seashore (52 miles)

Padre Island National Seashore, encompassing 130,454 acres, is the longest remaining undeveloped stretch of barrier island in the world, and offers a wide variety of flora and fauna as well as recreation. *

After exploring the links on this page, click on the inDEPTH button for Frequently Asked Questions and info on Traveling Down Island, the island's history, and current issues.

Call our Hatchling Hotline at (361) 949-7163 for information on attending releases of baby sea turtles.

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Choke Canyon Reservoir (69 miles)

Choke Canyon Dam and and reservoir are features of the Nueces Project. The reservoir provides a water supply for Corpus Christi, Texas. Recreation at this reservoir is managed for Reclamation by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. When full, the lake provides approximately 26,000 acres of water surface. Accessible from numerous roads. Several boat ramps and camping... More

 
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge (83 miles)

The bugle of an endangered whooping crane echoes across the far reaches of the marsh. Only at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge do North America's tallest birds find an enduring winter stronghold. Here, too, pelicans, herons, egrets, roseate spoonbills, ducks, and geese dine in brackish waters and salt marshes teeming with fishes, blue crabs, and clams. On shore, javelinas, bobcats and deer wander oak woodlands. Alligators peer from still waters of ponds and sloughs. Ringed by tidal marshes and... More

 
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge (89 miles)

Life tends to be richest at its borders. Here, on the international border between U.S. and Mexico, a host of nature's borders converge climate, community, land form and geography. Only 5% of the native landscape remains on the lower river and its nearby reaches, yet the diversity within these fragments adds up to an astonishing 1,200 types of plants, 700 species of vertebrates (including nearly 500 bird species) and 300 kinds of butterflies. You'll find 11 different biological communities,... More

 

 

 

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