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Prairie dogs live in large communities that spread for acres on the shortgrass prairies of Texas, their heads popping up from the circular dirt mounds around their burrow entrances.

Miles and miles of dry, sandy scrub surrounding the state park suddenly give way at its center to an expanse of ivory sand whipped into dunes rising more than six stories above the desert floor.

A collection of rooms where you walk from wildflowers to ferns to tropicals.

If you want to get up close and personal with an alligator, Brazos Bend State Park is the place to go. They glide through the bayous, slither through the mud or sun themselves on the banks of the lake or in the middle of a trail. Sometimes they're nothing but a pair of eyes protruding from the water.

American Avocets have an elegant posture, a needle of a bill that turns up at the end and a rich cinnamon plumage during breeding season.

With the tall walls and narrow pathway between them, the trail is fortuitously shaded much of the time. As it reaches the sandy banks of the river, the trail becomes less distinct. To get to the most dramatic views at ...