Lake Tawakoni State Park Photo Journal

Below you will find photos from a recent trip to Lake Tawakoni State Park in Wills Point, Texas. It’s about 60 miles, or an hour drive, East of Dallas. The lake itself offers swimming, fishing and boating and there is great hiking along the lakeshore and through oak forests with White-tailed deer. Camping is also available (though currently closed due to COVID-19). It rained all day when we were there, so we had the trails to ourselves!

For more information, visit the official website.

Happy exploring!

The start of the Spring Point Trail near the group primitive camp grounds.

First view of Lake Tawakoni from the Spring Point Trail.

A windy, rainy view of Lake Tawakoni

I believe this is called a Wolly Bear Caterpillar

Lake Tawakoni

Wildernew’s mascot: Hobbes

We stopped for a snack before our next phase of exploration.

We saw several blue herons along this section of the lake.

And there were some pretty incredible fungi/spores along the trails.

Mushroom along the Farkleberry Trail

Along the Farkleberry Trail

Farkleberry Trail

Red Oak Trail and one really wet dog

Blackjack Trail

Orange Osage Trail connecting to Red Oak Trail