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.
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.
