Mission Tejas Cut Through

Total Miles
9.2

Elevation

137.84 ft

Duration

1 Hours

Technical Rating

3

Easy

Best Time

Summer, Winter

Trail Overview

On one end of the trail is Mission Tejas State Park. On the other end is a natural spring leading to the Big Slough Wilderness Area. If you're looking for a good route from the Big Slough to get to the famed Mission Tejas State Park (or vice versa), then this is the ideal trail. Filled with dirt roads, gravel strips, and spots of natural water erosion, this trail offers the opportunity to see some of the Davy Crockett National Forest's wilderness. However, if you follow along through some of the most beautiful views and traces of wildlife in the area you'll find multiple spurs to lead you into some of the most popular sites for dispersed camping in the National Forest.

Photos of Mission Tejas Cut Through

Mission Tejas Cut Through
Mission Tejas Cut Through

Difficulty

On this trail, you'll find small sand pits, potentially muddy roads, strips of loose gravel, and multiple heavily eroded sections of Forest Service Road where a large portion of the roads have been washed out. There are a bunch of places to recover with the ample amount of trees close to the road, but this trail could end up being very difficult if traveled during the rainy season.

History

After speaking with locals who have used the historic campsites along this and other routes in the area, the consensus is that the road has been used as a FSR for quite some time, but was also a very popular fisherman's road - with the multiple ponds and waterways all along this route.

Technical Rating

3

Status Reports

There are no status reports yet for this trail.

Access Description

From Mission Tejas State Park, you'll get onto County Road 1190 until a Southeast left turn onto FSR 518, and eventually, the road will turn into County Road 1180 before the trail ends at the section of FSR 511 (aka Davy Crockett National Forest Route) bordering Big Slough Wilderness Area.

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