Outdoors

Most of Texas is private land, which makes the public pieces count for more. This section covers how those pieces work in practice: what a state park visit takes now that the busiest parks fill up on weekends, which license a bay pier or a stock tank calls for, and where the fees end up. The aim is the kind of detail that saves a wasted drive, drawn from Texas Parks and Wildlife rules rather than hearsay at the bait shop.