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 Kickapoo Cavern State Park - Brackettville, TX Posted by:  WalksfarTX
N 29° 37.792 W 100° 25.262
14R E 362431 N 3278616
Kickapoo Cavern State Park, formerly the Seargeant Ranch, is located approximately 22 miles north of Brackettville, straddling the Kinney/Edwards county line. It is comprised of 6,368.4 acres of the southern Edwards Plateau.
Waymark Code: WMXN06
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/31/2018
Views: 1
Texas Parks and WildlifePark facilities include 14 miles of mountain biking trails and 18 miles of undesignated hiking and birding trails.
Park is home to large numbers of Mexican free-tailed bats for part of each year. The bats migrate arrive in mid-March, and usually stay through the end of October. Bat flights are often spectacular, and public observations are available with an entrance permit. To protect this valuable resource and for your safety, please read and follow all rules and regulations and use caution, as conditions change on a daily basis.
Park Type: Overnight
Activities:
The park offers picnic sites, camping (tents and recreational vehicles sites with water, electricity, and sewer hookups), hiking, mountain biking, bird-watching, cave tours, and evening bat flight viewing during the season.
Park Fees:
Adult : $3 Daily
Child 12 Years and Under: Free
Background:
The park has 20 known caves, two of which are large enough to be significant. Kickapoo Cavern is approximately 0.25 miles in length (1,400 feet) and boasts some impressive formations.
Stuart Bat Cave (formally Green Cave), slightly shorter than Kickapoo at 1,068 feet, is home to large numbers of Mexican free-tailed bats for part of each year. The bats migrate to the cave in mid-March, and usually stay through the end of October.
Unauthorized entrance into caves is prohibited.
Date Established?: 1991
Link to Park: [Web Link]
Additional Entrance Points: Not Listed
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