Caprock Canyons State Park and Trailway

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Caprock Canyons State Park and Trailway

Caprock Canyons State Park and Trailway is a Texas

Texas

Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
state park

State park

State parks are parks or other protected areas of the United States and in Mexico for an area of land preserved on account of its natural beauty, historic interest, recreation, or other reason, and under the administration of the government of a U.S....
on the Caprock Escarpment

Caprock Escarpment

The Caprock Escarpment is a geographical transition point in Texas between the High Plains /Llano Estacado to the west and the North Central Plains to the east....
in Briscoe County

Briscoe County, Texas

Briscoe County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2000, the population is 1,790. Its county seat is Silverton, Texas. Briscoe is named for Andrew Briscoe, a soldier during the Texas Revolution....
, Texas, United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, approximately 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Amarillo

Amarillo, Texas

Amarillo is the 14th-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas, the largest in the Texas Panhandle, and the county seat of Potter County, Texas. A portion of the city extends into Randall County, Texas....
. The state park opened in 1982 and is 15,313.6 acre

Acre

The acre is a Units of measurement of area in a number of different systems, including the Imperial unit#Measures of area and United States customary units#Units of area systems....
s (56.5 km²) in size, making it the third-largest state park in Texas

List of Texas state parks

This is a list of state parks, state natural areas, and state historic sites in Texas, United States under the jurisdiction of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department....
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993, a hiking, biking, and equestrian trail opened that stretches through the park through Floyd

Floyd County, Texas

Floyd County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2000, its population was 7,771. It is named for Dolphin Floyd, who died on his 32nd birthday, March 6, 1836, defending the Alamo Mission in San Antonio....
, Briscoe, and Hall

Hall County, Texas

Hall County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2000, the population is 3,782. Its county seat is Memphis, Texas. Hall County is named for Warren D....
counties.

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Caprock Canyons State Park and Trailway is a Texas

Texas

State park

Caprock Escarpment

The Caprock Escarpment is a geographical transition point in Texas between the High Plains /Llano Estacado to the west and the North Central Plains to the east....
in Briscoe County

Briscoe County, Texas

United States

Amarillo, Texas

Acre

List of Texas state parks

This is a list of state parks, state natural areas, and state historic sites in Texas, United States under the jurisdiction of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department....
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Trailway

In 1993, a hiking, biking, and equestrian trail opened that stretches through the park through Floyd

Floyd County, Texas

Hall County, Texas

Hall County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of 2000, the population is 3,782. Its county seat is Memphis, Texas. Hall County is named for Warren D....
counties. The trailway was created after the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department acquired 64.25 miles (103.4 km) of right-of-way

Right-of-way (railroad)

A right-of-way is a strip of land that is granted ? through an easement or other mechanism ? for transportation purposes, such as for a rail line or highway....
from the abandoned Fort Worth and Denver Railroad

Fort Worth and Denver Railway

The Fort Worth and Denver Railway , nicknamed "the Denver Road," was an Rail transport in the United States company that operated in the northern part of Texas from 1881 to 1982, and had a profound influence on the early settlement and economic development of the region....
's lines between Estelline

Estelline, Texas

Estelline is a town in Hall County, Texas, Texas, United States. The population was 168 at the 2000 United States Census....
and the South Plains

South Plains

The South Plains is a region in West Texas comprising the area north of the Caprock Escarpment on the Llano Estacado, and extending north into the Texas Panhandle, centered at Lubbock....
.

Climate

The park is located in West Texas

West Texas

West Texas is a region in Texas that has more in common geographically with the Southwestern United States than it does with the rest of the state....
and therefore has a desert climate. The average January minimum temperature is 19 °F

Fahrenheit

Fahrenheit is a temperature scale named after the physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit , who proposed it in 1724. Today, the scale has largely been replaced by the Celsius scale; it is still in use for non-scientific purposes in the United States and a few other countries such as Belize....
(-7 °C

Celsius

Celsius is a temperature scale that is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius , who developed a similar temperature scale two years before his death....
) and the average July maximum is 91 °F (33 °C). The park receives 20.4 inches (518 mm) of precipitation annually.

Flora and fauna

The area contains badlands

Badlands

A badlands is a type of arid terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively Erosion by wind and water. It can resemble malpa?s, a terrain of volcanic rocks....
with mesquite

Mesquite

Mesquite is a legume plant of the Prosopis genus found in Northern Mexico and the United States from the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas up to southwestern Kansas and from southeastern California and southwestern Utah to the southern limits of the Sonoran desert....
, cacti

Cactus

A cactus is any member of the spine plant family Cactaceae, native to the Americas. They are often used as ornamental plants, but some are also Crop plants....
and juniper

Juniper

Junipers are coniferous plants in the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae. Depending on taxonomic viewpoint, there are between 50-67 species of juniper, widely distributed throughout the northern hemisphere, from the Arctic, south to tropical Africa in the Old World, and to the mountains of Central America....
s with tall grass

Grass

Grass is the common word that generally describes monocotyledonous green plants. The family Poaceae are the "true grasses" and include most plants grown as grains, for pasture, and for lawns ....
es, plum

Plum

A plum or gage is a drupe tree in the genus Prunus, subgenus Prunus. The subgenus is distinguished from other subgenera in the shoots having a terminal bud and the side buds solitary , the flowers being grouped 1-5 together on short stems, and the fruit having a groove running down one side, and a smooth stone....
s, hackberries

Hackberry

Hackberry is a genus of about 60-70 species of deciduous trees widespread in warm temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, in southern Europe, southern and eastern Asia, and southern and central North America, and south to central Africa and South America....
and cottonwood

Cottonwood

The cottonwoods are three species of poplars in the section Aegiros of the genus Populus, native to North America, Europe and western Asia....
s in the canyons.

African aouodad Sheep

Barbary Sheep

The Barbary Sheep...
(barbary Sheep), mule Deer

Mule Deer

The mule deer is a deer whose habitat is in the western half of North America. It gets its name from its large mule-like ears. Adult male mule deer are called bucks, adult females are called does, and young of both sexes are called fawns....
, white-tailed Deer

White-tailed Deer

File:Wtdfishwild.jpgThe white-tailed deer , also known as the Virginia deer, or simply as the whitetail, is a medium-sized deer native to all but five states in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and northern portions of South America as far south as Peru....
, coyote

Coyote

The coyote , also known as the prairie wolf, is a species of canid found throughout North America and Central America, ranging from Panama in the south, north through Mexico, the United States, and Canada....
s, opossums, raccoon

Raccoon

Procyon is a genus of nocturnal mammals, comprising three species commonly known as raccoons, in the family Procyonidae. The most widespread species, the Raccoon , is often known simply as "the" raccoon, as the two other raccoon species in the genus are native only to the tropics and are considerably lesser-known....
s, Bobcat

Bobcat

The Bobcat is a North American mammal of the cat family, Felidae. With twelve recognized subspecies, it ranges from southern Canada to northern east Mexico, including most of the continental United States....
s, Fox

Fox

A fox is an animal belonging to any one of about 27 species of small to medium-sized Canidae, characterized by possessing a long, narrow snout, and a bushy tail, or brush....
es, Porcupine

Porcupine

Porcupines are rodents with a coat of sharp Spine , or quills, that defend them from predators. They are endemic in both the Old World and the New World....
s, numerous species of snakes and lizards, and over 175 species of birds including Golden Eagle

Golden Eagle

The Golden Eagle is one of the best known bird of prey in the Northern Hemisphere. Like all eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae. Once widespread across the Holarctic, it has disappeared from many of the more heavily populated areas....
s are found within the park. Caprock Canyons State Park and Trailway is the home of the official Texas State Bison

American Bison

The American Bison is a bovinae mammal, also commonly known as the American buffalo. "Buffalo" is somewhat of a misnomer for this animal, as it is only distantly related to either of the two "true buffaloes", the Wild Asian Water Buffalo and the African buffalo....
Herd. Lake Theo contains bass

Bass (fish)

Bass is a name shared by many different species of popular gamefish. The term encompasses both fresh water and sea water species. All belong to the large order Perciformes, or perch-like fishes, and in fact the word bass comes from Middle English bars, meaning "perch." These are some of the best known species of bass:...
and catfish

Catfish

Catfish are a very diverse group of Actinopterygii fish. Named for their prominent barbel s, which resemble a cat's whiskers , catfish range in size and behavior from the heaviest, the Pangasius gigas from Southeast Asia and the longest, the wels catfish of Eurasia, to detritivores , and even to a tiny parasite species commonly called the ca...
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