Across the Lone Star State, there are 85 state parks, natural areas and historic sites currently operated by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. But which gets the most visitors each spring?

If cartographers were to design a pictorial map of Texas’s national and State parks, the map would likely be punctuated with a lot of colorful doodles. Sitting on the globe in a shape that resembles ...

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