New State Park in North Central Texas to open 2014

I ran across this a few weeks back and have been trying to get the word out. Palo Pinto Mountain State Park will open in 2014. Located near Strawn TX (west of Mineral Wells and just North of I-20).

Here is a clickety: pennys-tuppence.blogspot.co…

I have not seen this appear on the State TPWD web site though that may have changed.
I have never been to this specific spot but the general area has rock/boulders on the surface and the online topographic map looks
like the area has potential for climbing.

We need a new area.

Interesting, but from the pictures it doesn't look like it has much to offer climbing-wise.

youtube.com/watch?v=lPP-yN5…

Here is a website from the city of Strawn. It is not from the TPWd though it has the TPWD symbol. There is little mention of the park on the TPWD page.
strawntx.com/state-park.html

And this is from a blogger who visited:
"Finally, the road warns that its pavement’s about to end. Trees arch over the top of your car and you begin to slow. You enter the Land of No. A black and white sign announces: “no motor boats over 10 hp, no driving on dam, no swimming, no hunting, no glass containers. Please keep gate closed”. This was easy the day I was there, it being locked. Don’t let the signs throw you. The land here is much kinder.

Park your car in this Strawn City Park. Here you have two choices – I recommend both. To your south, the earthen Lake Tucker dam rises ninety-seven feet into the sky. Walk west up the hill, behind the No Vehicles sign.

Be careful.

To your right hides a treacherous gorge dropping ninety-plus feet to the rock-strewn creek. This road will take you to the dam, beneath which tumbles a spillway. The carved flat shale floor below the spillway will remind some of Pedernales Falls State Park, west of Austin."
Here is the url for the blog. From what I read this place is accessible legally-open is a relative term sometimes.

pennys-tuppence.blogspot.co…

(fingers crossed)

With any luck I will never get to visit. I lived in Texas for 10 years, easily the worst ten years of my life.