Each year thousands of people travel from all over the country to take in the beauty of the Texas Hill Country. After a short ten miles on Highway 377 south from Junction, a visitor discovers one of Texas' newest state parks. Entering on Park Road 73 the beauty of the park is immediately apparent with the sight of the clear water of the South Llano River rushing under a low-water crossing bridge. The park boasts that it is one of Texas' largest and oldest roosting areas for the Rio Grande turkey. During the winter roosting period, it isn't unusual to count over one hundred turkeys in the campground.
Turkeys return to the bottomland where pecan trees and a variety of oaks become overnight roosts.
This allows the turkeys to roost and breed undisturbed as they've been doing for over 100 years. Other abundant wildlife include the native whitetail deer, jack rabbits and cottontails, exotic animals such as axis and fallow deer and black buck antelope, along with armadillos and roadrunners. Bird watchers flock in search of the 'lifer' on their bird lists. Many varieties of sparrows, finches, buntings, flycatchers and birds of prey make the park their home either all year around or when migrating. The area is on the western edge of the migratory route of the monarch butterfly where hundreds of thousands of bright orange wings can cover the trunk of a tree.