Brazos Bend State Park Volunteer Organization
BRAZOS BEND STATE PARK
HIKING & BIKING TRAIL DISTANCES

FROM TO
MILEAGE
Forty-Acre Lake Roundtrip
1.2
Forty-Acre Lake Observation Tower
0.5
Forty-Acre Lake Observation Tower
(Same route back)
1.0
Observation Tower Elm Lake
0.6
Elm Lake Roundtrip
1.7
Elm Lake Forty-Acre Lake Roundtrip
Return to Elm Lake
4.1
Nature Center Hale Lake Fishing Pier
1.2
Hale Lake Rountrip
(From Big Creek Bridge)
1.6
Pilant Slough Trail Elm Lake to Nature Center
1.0
Horseshoe Lakes Roundtrip
1.35
Creekfield Lake Observatory Trail
0.5
Nature Center George Observatory
0.25

CREEKFIELD LAKE ACCESSIBLE NATURE TRAIL

The Creekfield Lake Nature Trail is a 0.5 mile fully accessible interpretive trail. Come and discover more about Texas' wetland plants and animals by using your senses as you follow this trail.

TRAIL ACCESS: Park in the main Nature Center lot. Take the paved observatory trail across the road and you will see the Creekfield Lake trailhead. This loop trail brings you back to your starting point.


PAVED ROAD DISTANCES

FROM TO
MILEAGE
Headquarters Nature Center
2.6
Visitor Center Hale Lake Fishing Pier
1.25
Visitor Center Elm Lake
0.5
Headquarters Forty-Acre Lake
0.25
Headquarters Roundtrip
(includes all paved roads)
12.0

BRAZOS RIVER PRIMITIVE TRAIL

FROM TO
MILEAGE
*Hale Lake Red Buckeye
2.0
*Hale Lake White Oak (Short Loop)
1.6
*Hale Lake White Oak (Long Loop)
2.4
*Hale Lake Blue Stem
2.5

Trails designated for both hiking and biking are wide enough for safe multiple usage; but care must be exercised by cyclists particularly when passing hikers. Fast bicycling on dirt trails is not acceptable. * Trail use subject to weather conditions.

Updated Mon, Sep 3, 2007

The purpose of the Volunteer organization is to assist and educate the visitors of Brazos Bend State Park through
information and interpretive programs and to assist in the care and conservation of the Park.

Brazos Bend State Park
21901 FM 762
Needville, TX 77461
(979) 553-5101