Admission to most LCRA parks is free for children under 12, $5 for adults, and $2 for seniors and disabled parkgoers. Annual park passes are available for between $100 to $240, depending on the ...

Matagorda Bay Nature Park is a 1,600-acre park and preserve at the mouth of the Colorado River on the Matagorda Peninsula. LCRA developed the park to provide recreation, education, wetlands ...

Crucially, LCRA parks are much lesser known and less visited than Texas’s beloved but overburdened state parks. Annual visitation for LCRA’s facilities was about 1.5 million visitors in 2023 ...

Members from the Lower Colorado River Authority regional councils visited the Matagorda Bay Nature Park in Matagorda last week as part of the Downstream Irrigation Tour.