Two Bridges Trail -- Lake Whitney State Park, nr Whitney TX
N 31° 55.478 W 097° 22.324
14R E 653901 N 3533238
Lake Whitney State Park's beautiful Two Bridges Hiking Trail has two hiking path footbridges on it to get you from Point A to Point B without getting your feet wet or getting stuck in the bottom of a ravine.
Waymark Code: WMGA30
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 hiked this trail with about 7 dozen friends. We saw deer, vultures, cottontail rabbits, red squirrels, a couple for wild turkeys and a turtle, plus tracks for racoons, deer, and maybe a coyote!
Our girl scouts 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 and you too . . . it is an armadillo.
Lake Whitney is one of the state parks that participates evert year in the Texas State Park Geocaching Challenge. Those caches are set in the spring and archived in the fall. The 2013 challenge cache was located off this trail.
From the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department website: (
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"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]
From the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department website: (
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Lake Whitney State Park is located in the Grand Prairie subregion of the Blackland Prairie natural region. It has open disturbed tallgrass prairie remnants with scattered groves of live oak and a small area of post oak/blackjack oak woodland. In the spring, bluebonnets, Indian paintbrushes and over 40 species of wildflowers cover the roadside and landscape. Common animals include white-tailed deer, raccoons and squirrels, and foxes, coyotes and bobcats are occasionally spotted; 194 species of birds have been sighted, including wild turkeys and bald eagles." [end]