Big Slough Trail and Auto Tour

Well the trail almost returned back to non existent, but we muster up the old Teddy Roosevelt charge .our sixty five year old selves made the whole thing, hanging silver dollar size spiders in the hundreds and still after three days pulling ticks off in our nether area's .very exciting feeling the eyes of possible nesting alligators watching us with surprise ,not believing two old fools marching thru.

There IS an auto tour you can take from here. You don't need the office to be open to take it, but the office is open much more regularly now. They use to have cassette tapes or cd's you could pick up from in the ground level pavillion. I haven't used one since the 1st time I went there, many years ago, so I am not sure what they have now. I'll check the next time I go down and then update this review.

But for the tour, you just drive past the office and restrooms on your left and then drive on northeast on the unimproved road. It's limestone gravel. There are several mark ponds. One of the first is Olney's pond, where in June, I've seen up to 9 Wood Storks. I have a photo of them, dwarfing a White Ibis that is among them. The photo is labeled under Brazoria County.