Lake Edinburg Vacation and Resort Properties

Lake Edinburg is impounded by Retama Reservoir Levee Dam in Hidalgo County, Texas and is used for irrigation purposes. Construction of Retama Reservoir Levee was completed in 1935. At normal levels it has a surface area of 630 acres. It is property of Santa Cruz Irrigation District No 15.

 

 

Nearby Attractions

Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge (21 miles)

Step into a rare tropical world at Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge. Spanish moss drips from trees. Noisy chachalacas welcome the morning dawn. A malachite butterfly flits from the shadows. The wildlife clientele is truly international here along the most southern stretch of the Rio Grande.

Thanks to the foresight of those who succeeded in protecting the refuge in 1943, we can experience a natural world that has vanished from 95 percent of the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Santa Ana NWR gleams... More

 
Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge (24 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

 
Grulla National Wildlife Refuge (31 miles)

Grulla National Wildlfie Refuge is located in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, near the small town of Arch, approximately 25 miles northwest of Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge. This 3,236-acre refuge is managed by the staff at Muleshoe NWR. More than 2,000 acres of the refuge is the saline lake bed of Salt Lake. When the lake holds sufficient water, Grulla NWR is a beneficial wintering area for lesser sandhill cranes. Ring-necked pheasant, scaled quail, and lesser prairie chicken are often seen... More

 
Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge (49 miles)

The south Texas landscape is a unique blending of temperate, subtropical, coastal, and desert habitats. Mexican plants and wildlife are at the northernmost edge of their range, while migrating waterfowl and sandhill cranes fly down for the mild winters. This combination makes Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge world famous for its birds, and home to a mix of wildlife found nowhere else.

Laguna Atascosa NWR is the largest protected area of natural habitat left in the Lower Rio Grande... More

 

 

 

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Hotels and Lodging for Lake Edinburg

Edinburg, TX

Best Western Edinburg Inn & Suites  Super 8 Edinburg  La Copa Inn & Suites Edinburg 

Mcallen, TX

Renaissance Casa de Palmas Hotel  La Quinta Inn Mcallen  Microtel Inn  La Copa Inn 

Pharr, TX

Comfort Inn Pharr  Ramada Limited Suites Pharr/Mcallen  Country Hearth Inn Mcallen Pharr  La Quinta Inn & Suites Rio Grande Valley  Country Inn & Suites Pharr  Country Inn & Suites Pharr 

San Juan, TX

Days Inn San Juan