Caprock Canyons State Park and Trailway is a Texas state park located along the eastern edge of the Llano Estacado in Briscoe County, Texas, United States, approximately Шаблон:Convert southeast of Amarillo. The state park opened in 1982 and is Шаблон:Convert in size, making it the third-largest state park in Texas.
In 1993, a hiking, biking, and equestrian rail trail opened that stretches through the park through Floyd, Briscoe, and Hall counties. The trailway was created after the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department acquired Шаблон:Convert of right-of-way from the abandoned Fort Worth and Denver Railroad's lines between Estelline and the South Plains.
The park is located in West Texas and has a semi-arid climate. The average January minimum temperature is Шаблон:Convert and the average July maximum is Шаблон:Convert. The park receives Шаблон:Convert of precipitation annually.
The area contains badlands with mesquite, cacti and junipers with tall grasses, plums, hackberries and cottonwoods in the canyons.
The Park hosts the Texas state bison herd. At the urging of his wife, Charles Goodnight preserved several plains bison from those that were being slaughtered. This herd became one of the genetic sources from which current bison herds descend. The state herd only contains plains bison which have no cattle DNA.
African aouodad sheep (barbary sheep), mule deer, white-tailed deer, coyotes, opossums, raccoons, bobcats, foxes, porcupines, numerous species of snakes and lizards, and over 175 species of birds including Golden Eagles are found within the park. Lake Theo contains bass, catfish, and rainbow trout. In the summer of 2012 black-tailed prairie dogs were reintroduced to a Шаблон:Convert area within the park.
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