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Lower Colorado River Authority Matagorda Bay Nature Park

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 preservation and economic benefit to the region. The park has about two miles of Gulf of Mexico and two miles river frontage and hundreds of acres of coastal marshes and dunes. It is one of the best birding areas in the nation. We Provide age/grade level appropriate TEKS aligned educational programs on subjects including wetlands ecology, estuary ecology, dune and beach analysis, salt marsh ecology, vertebrate and micro/ macro invertebrate studies, and GPS activities.