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Pleasure Island

Connected to the city by M.L. King-Gulfgate Bridge that arcs 138 feet above ship channel. The Island is in Sabine Lake, a 100-square-mile lake that opens into Gulf of Mexico. Offers a disc golf course, lakeside RV parks, boat ramps and miles of free roadside fishing levees from which anglers take redfish, drum, speckled trout, croakers and other species. The first phase of a new marina is open. Excellent crabbing is available year-round. Fun Island Depot playground is a replica of city's old railroad station. Access is via Texas 82 causeway to Cameron Parish, La.

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1700 Martin Luther King Jr Dr.
Port Arthur, Texas
77640

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On the Pedernales River, this park presents interpretive exhibits of the storied Texas Hill Country. Picnic facilities, park store, fishing, swimming pool, tennis courts and nature trail. Wildlife displays include Texas Longhorns, white-tailed deer and American bison. Historic buildings include two restored dog-run cabins furnished in frontier style, Danz cabins and the Sauer-Beckmann Farmstead (open 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. daily) where rural life of the early 1900s is interpreted by living history demonstrations. Boarding point for NPS tours. Open 8 a.m.–5 p.m. daily except Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's days. U.S. 290 at State Park Road 52 just east of Stonewall. 830/644-2252. www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/lyndon_b_johnson.

City: Stonewall
Region: Hill Country

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