National Parks in Texas

Texas has 18 National Park Service sites in this directory. The list includes sites designated National Park plus monuments, historic sites, trails, recreation areas, and other NPS units associated with the state.

18NPS sites
10designation categories
3multi-state / territory listings
148NPD city guides in Texas

What This State Directory Includes

This page uses complete NPS state membership. A trail, parkway, river, historic route, or other distributed unit may appear in more than one state. Not every listing is formally designated a National Park, so the designation is shown separately for each site instead of treating every NPS unit as the same park type.

Core park identity and state membership come from locally stored NPS-derived records. Individual park pages provide current bundled NPS visitor information and explain reference-coordinate limitations.

Sites with a National Park Designation

These NPD listings carry a National Park, National Park & Preserve, or National and State Parks designation in the current source record. Some NPS records group related named parks, so this is a directory-record view rather than a claim about the official count of separately designated parks.

NPS Site Types in Texas

National Historic Trail (3) National Historical Park (3) National Historic Site (2) National Monument (2) National Park (2) National Recreation Area (2) National Memorial (1) National Preserve (1) National Seashore (1) Wild & Scenic River (1)

All NPS Sites in Texas

SiteDesignationState / Territory Membership
Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument National Monument Texas
Amistad National Recreation Area National Recreation Area Texas
Big Bend National Park National Park Texas
Big Thicket National Preserve National Preserve Texas
Blackwell School National Historic Site National Historic Site Texas
Butterfield Overland National Historic Trail National Historic Trail Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California
Chamizal National Memorial National Memorial Texas
El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail National Historic Trail Texas, Louisiana
El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail National Historic Trail New Mexico, Texas
Fort Davis National Historic Site National Historic Site Texas
Guadalupe Mountains National Park National Park Texas
Lake Meredith National Recreation Area National Recreation Area Texas
Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park National Historical Park Texas
Padre Island National Seashore National Seashore Texas
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park National Historical Park Texas
Rio Grande Wild & Scenic River Wild & Scenic River Texas
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park National Historical Park Texas
Waco Mammoth National Monument National Monument Texas

Map of NPS Sites in Texas

The markers use NPS reference coordinates. A reference point may be an administrative or geographic point rather than an entrance, trailhead, visitor center, or nearest access point—especially for trails, rivers, parkways, and other distributed units.

Multi-State and Distributed NPS Sites

3 listings associated with Texas also belong to at least one other state or territory. Their state membership is shown below so a single-state label does not imply the whole unit is located only here.

City Guides in Texas

These are NPD city-based park discovery pages. They compare NPS sites by straight-line distance from each city; they do not claim that a park is located inside the city or that the distance is road mileage.

Source and Freshness

Park identity, designation, complete state membership, images, and reference coordinates are derived from NPD's locally stored National Park Service data. NPD city relationships come from the dedicated city directory and are kept separate from NPS park addresses.

Latest park-source refresh represented on this state page: Sep 26, 2026.

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