In mid November we took a drive south and west of Kerrville to Lost Maples State Natural Area in the Texas Hill Country. This was the week the maple trees were to be near "peak". As you can see the Texas Hill Country is indeed hilly. This is the entrance to the natural area.
This canyon area has quite a large growth of Texas Bigtooth Maple trees. They don't seem as tall as the maples of Pennsylvania.
As you can see, the leaves are a lot smaller too.
There are about 12 miles of hiking trails and a nice picnic area where we ate our lunch.
After lunch we headed out on a trail. We came mid week as on the peak weekends there is a wait of 2-3 hours to get into the park. They only allow enough cars that there are parking spaces and you have to wait until someone leaves to get in!
We took a picture of another couple and they did the same for us.
The maples were a pretty change to the mostly oak trees in this area.
You can see the grass also turns a pinkish red color in the fall. Even Ceilidh got to go for a walk.
The trail we took followed a pretty stream through the park. Ceilidh was able to get a drink here.
We found this field of long horn cattle on the drive home. The trees are pretty for this area, but nothing like the Northeast!
This canyon area has quite a large growth of Texas Bigtooth Maple trees. They don't seem as tall as the maples of Pennsylvania.
As you can see, the leaves are a lot smaller too.
There are about 12 miles of hiking trails and a nice picnic area where we ate our lunch.
After lunch we headed out on a trail. We came mid week as on the peak weekends there is a wait of 2-3 hours to get into the park. They only allow enough cars that there are parking spaces and you have to wait until someone leaves to get in!
We took a picture of another couple and they did the same for us.
The maples were a pretty change to the mostly oak trees in this area.
You can see the grass also turns a pinkish red color in the fall. Even Ceilidh got to go for a walk.
The trail we took followed a pretty stream through the park. Ceilidh was able to get a drink here.
We found this field of long horn cattle on the drive home. The trees are pretty for this area, but nothing like the Northeast!
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