Davy Crockett National Forest
National Forest · Kennard, Texas
Roughly 160,000 acres of pine and hardwood between Lufkin and Crockett, on the same seam as the Sam Houston where southeastern forest gives way to central Texas prairie. Its centre is Ratcliff Lake, a 45-acre lake dug as a sawmill pond in 1900s logging days and rebuilt by the Civilian Conservation Corps, and its long walk is the 4C Trail — twenty miles named for the Central Coal and Coke Company that cut this forest down a century ago.
18551 State Highway 7 East, Kennard, Texas, 75847, United States
Forest open year-round with no gate or entrance fee. Kennard ranger district office keeps weekday business hours and SELLS NFGT PASSES AND MAPS. Day-use fee at Ratcliff Lake, the forest's only fee site. Check fs.usda.gov/r08/texas for road and trail closures.
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