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“Whatever your outdoor passion, you can pursue it here.” So declares Texas Parks and Wildlife’s enticing web page for Lake Somerville State Park & Trailway. Encircling an almost 12,000-acre man-made lake, the park sits smack-dab between Austin and Houston. This vast hub of open-air amusement comprises two units (Birch Creek at 2,365 acres and Nails Creek at 3,155 acres), the 13-mile Lake Somerville Trailway, and the 350-acre Flag Pond, a habitat for migrating birds.Other parks are more showy, like Big Bend Ranch, with its desert vistas, and Colorado Bend, with its transporting waterfalls. I anticipated something more straightforward with Lake Somerville, but I should have known: it is often the unassuming parks that offer the biggest surprises.Lake Somerville is one of only 22 of Texas’s…

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