Mustang Island State Park

Mustang Island State Park

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Location: Southeast from Corpus Christi to Padre Island, then north on Park Road 53.
Facilities: Campsites with water and electricity hookups, primitive campsites, showers, restrooms, picnic areas, beach, park store.
Activities: Camping, fishing, swimming, hiking, mountain biking, birding, intepretive programs (by appointment).
Special Features: Mustang Island is a coastal barrier island with a unique and complicated ecosystem dependent upon sand dunes. The earliest known inhabitants of Mustang Island were Karankawa Indians, known for their fierceness and cannibalism. The island was first named "Wild Horse Island," then "Mustang," for the wild horses brought to the island by Spaniards in the 1800s.
Address: 17047 State Hwy 361
Port Aransas, TX 78373
Phone: 361-749-5246;
Fax: 361-749-6455;
Web: www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/mustang_island
Size: 3,954 acres.

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