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| | Texas State Park Guide: Hike Texas |
 | | Pedernales Falls is a favorite for family hikes, with a duck pond, a quarter-mile nature trail to a scenic overlook of Twin Falls and a wheelchair-friendly wildlife-viewing station. |
 | | The 19-mile loop of the Rancherias Trail through Big Bend Ranch State Park leads backpackers from the narrow ribbon of the Rio Grande along Highway 170, also known as River Road, into timeless, rugged canyon terrain, across thornscrub mesas, past seeps and springs and remnants of historic homesteads. |
 | | At neighboring Bastrop and Buescher State Parks, both with backcountry hiking loops, you can compare the tall pines at Bastrop to the towering oak canopy at Buescher. |
| www.tpwd.state.tx.us /publications/parkguide/?page=hike&lang=en (751 words) |
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