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COASTAL RECREATION AREA

Read more about the efforts to establish a Coastal Recreation Area for the Upper Texas Coast and click here to view Media Coverage on Click2Houston.

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Bayou Wilderness Trail Areas
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San Felipe River Trail Areas
Spring Creek Trail Areas
Trinity River Trail Areas
The Big Thicket Millions of years ago, much of The Big Thicket was under water until the shores of the Gulf of Mexico receded to...Learn More
The Piney Woods The Piney Woods is the southwestern-most remnant of what was once a huge contiguous pine forest that ran from...Learn More
Trinity Bottomlands The Trinity River gained its name from Alonso de Leon in the late 1600s. Prior to this, small bands of Native...Learn More
Columbia Bottomlands Many species of trees call the Columbia Bottomlands home, including green ash, hackberry, honey locust, pignut,...Learn More
Prairie Systems The Texas coast once held 6.5 million acres of prairies, thick with chest-high grass that supported enormous...Learn More
Post Oak Savannah White-tailed deer, wild turkeys and squirrels enjoy the protein-rich acorns produced by the long-living post oak...Learn More
Estuaries and Bays As frozen water from the ice age began to melt, sea level in the Gulf of Mexico rose over two hundred feet and...Learn More
The Coastal Marshes Wetlands, like the ones that make up the Coastal Marshes of Texas, are in essence a transition zone between the...Learn More
Gulf of Mexico The beaches of the upper Texas coast are a mixture of sand and silt, flanked by sand dunes and associated...Learn More
The Bayou Wilderness Houston’s moniker, the Bayou City, is well deserved – it is crisscrossed by waterways of all types,...Learn More
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Many of us are simply satisfied to know these areas and opportunities exist, though we have not experienced them ourselves.

We work for people and communities, and know that we can all prosper and grow through our connection to wilderness. We are educators in search of opportunities to expand knowledge and instill an ethic.

We are benefactors and stewards of a rich natural history. We are future generations who will enjoy and benefit from the wilderness as those who came before us did. We are a mesmerizing skyline set before the flight path of a thousand migrating geese.

We are Houston Wilderness. It's our nature.

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ABOUT HOUSTON WILDERNESS

We are Houston Wilderness, a bridge between a dynamic, growing city and the wetlands, forests, prairies and river systems that sustain us as individuals and communities.

We recognize that quality of life and wilderness are bound to one another. To ensure we will always have these natural resources, we strive to share the beauty and create awareness of what has been generously loaned to us.

We spend our weekends hiking in ancient pine forests, canoeing winding bayous, or watching colorful songbirds on their migration route. You will find us wading the shorelines in search of redfish and flounder or hunting white-tailed deer and green-winged teal.

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HOUSTON, DID YOU KNOW?

Although from a distance they may look monotonous, up close prairies are a shining example of biodiversity with an intricate chain of... Learn about Prairie Systems