Caprock State Park

We took a very nice hike before we left Copper Breaks.  The park had prisoners from Quannah cleaning the trail so we stepped aside and let them do their trail blazing.  This was a very nice trail up into the breaks.  The lakes are really low in this area, as they are throughout Texas.

Hardy at rest.

Copper Breaks Lake

We hiked to the top of the trail which was about a one mile hike, round trip, and fairly steep.  At the top was a nice place to sit and view the lake area.  We left about 12 noon, filled up with gas in Quannah and headed to Caprock State Park, outside of Turkey, Texas. Turkey, Texas is the home of Bob Wills, country singer who had Bob Wills and the Country Playboys.  He was well known in early country music.

Caprock State Park

Home on the range

We arrived at Caprock and picked up the Caprock travel bug and dropped off the Sunshine travel bug. This is home to the last remaining vestige of the Northern Plains Bison Herd. 

Our campsite in Palo Duro

We arrived at Palo Duro State Park about 5:00 p.m  and set up camp and had dinner.  We went for a hike on the CCC Trail near the Visitors Center and picked up another geocache.  On the way back a nice approximately four foot Western Diamondback Rattlesnake was laying under a tree waiting for his dinner to walk by.  He was just far enough from us that he didn't bother us and we certainly didn't bother him.  I got excited just to see him and I forgot to take a picture and decided I wasn't going back looking for him.

At the Visitor's Center we met a family from Mission, Texas.