Lake Texana Vacation and Resort Properties

Lake Texana is a reservoir in Jackson County, formed by the Palmetto Bend Dam on the Navidad River, 8 miles east of Edna, Texas. It is used for drinking water and recreation. Lake Texana State Park activities include camping, boating, water skiing, jet skiing, sailing, canoeing, fishing, and swimming. Picnic areas, hiking, and birding areas are on the shore of Texana Lake.

Big Boggy National Wildlife Refuge (48 miles) Big Boggy National Wildlife Refuge consists of flat coastal prairies, salt marshes, and two large saltwater lakes. Established to provide habitat for migratroy waterfowl and other bird species, Big Boggy includes Dressing Point Island in East Matagorda Bay, a major rookery for colonial nesting birds on the Texas coast. The refuge is the smallest in the Texas Midcoast Refuges Complex. Its 4,526 acres may be small but holds an impressive number of waterfowl - up to 55,000 geese and 15,000 ducks... More

Aransas National Wildlife Refuge (57 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

San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge (62 miles) Gaze across the rippling marshes and ponds of San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge and it's easy to imagine Texas as it was before settlement. Clouds of snow geese in winter or a warbler "fallout" in spring further convince any visitor that they have stepped back into earliest Texas. Less than half of the refuge is open to the public, leaving a vast landscape was wildlife sanctuary. Yet, a drive on the 3-mile auto tour or hike on one of the three hiking trails can take up a full day's workth... More

Barker Dam (75 miles) More