Lake Whitney State Park - Whitney, TX
N 31° 55.891 W 097° 21.379
14R E 655379 N 3534024
Lake Whitney State Park is a jewel on the shores of Lake Whitney, offering camping, hiking, mountain biking, picnicking, boating, fishing, swimming (no lifeguard), scuba diving, water skiing and exceptional birding to visitors.
Waymark Code: WMGA2Q
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/04/2013
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Lake Whitney offers some of the best lake fishing in Texas. It has always been known as a premier fishing lake. With abundant fish comes abundant birds and wildlife, which can be seen from the many nature trails throughout the park.
The day we were here, we saw well over 2 dozen deer, many turkey vultures, some cardinals, a couple of mockingbirds and a few doves in under 20 minutes.
Mama and Youngest Sister Blaster have camped here before with the Girl Scouts. On that trip we saw deer, vultures, cottontail rabbits, red squirrels, a couple for wild turkeys, a turtle, and tracks for racoons, deer, and maybe a coyote!
The girls learned on that trip that if you are sleeping in your shelter and you hear something crashing through the brush like Godzilla and it sounds like it is going to stomp the world flat . . . it is an armadillo.
Lake Whitney is one of the state parks that participates every year in the Texas State Park Geocaching Challenge. Those caches are set in the spring and archived in the fall.
From the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department website: (
visit link)
"The 955-acre Lake Whitney State Park was acquired in 1954 by a Department of the Army lease and opened in May 1965. The park is along the east shore of Lake Whitney, west of Hillsboro in Hill County.
The park is located on Lake Whitney near ruins of Towash, an early Texas settlement inundated by Lake Whitney. Towash Village was named for the chief of the Hainai Indians, who moved into the area in 1835." [end]