Caddo Lake State Park
Subnational Park · Karnack, Texas
A small East Texas park on Big Cypress Bayou giving access to Caddo Lake — 26,810 acres of bald cypress hung with Spanish moss, a maze of sloughs and bayous that looks like nowhere else in the state. It is Texas's only large naturally formed lake, created when a colossal log jam called the Great Raft dammed the Red River and drowned the bottomlands, and it is a RAMSAR Wetland of International Importance, a designation held by only a handful of wetlands in the United States.
245 Park Road 2, Karnack, Texas, 75661, United States
Open year-round. Day entry roughly $3-$4 per adult, children free; Texas State Parks Pass accepted. Canoe hire at the park office with life jackets supplied. 46 campsites and nine historic CCC cabins — cabins book months ahead for weekends. ⚠ Alligators are resident; read TPWD's safety guidance. ⚠ Emerald ash borer quarantine — buy firewood where you burn it.
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