page_title: San Bernard River
section_title: Course
hierarchical_section_title: San Bernard River / Course
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo taken by submitter. San Bernard River after the 2004 Christmas Eve Snowstorm, a rarity for this part of Texas.
context_page_description: The San Bernard River is a river in Texas.
context_section_description: San Bernard River flows from a spring near New Ulm, Texas to its mouth on the Gulf of Mexico, some 120 miles (190 km)  to the southeast of the source.    It passes through portions of Austin, Brazoria, Colorado, Fort Bend, Matagorda and Wharton counties.  It passes alongside the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, which shelters one of the last populations of the critically endangered Attwater's prairie-chicken, a ground-dwelling grouse of the coastal prairie ecosystem.
  The San Bernard River is one of a small number of rivers in Texas which empties directly into the Gulf. Its mouth was impeded in 2005 causing it to drain into the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, but was later corrected.  Shortly after being opened back up, the entrance silted in again, and remains so at this time.
caption: San Bernard River after the 2004 Christmas Eve Snowstorm, a rarity for this part of Texas.
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