Port Lavaca, Texas

4 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 PORT LAVACA , TEXAS down there fishing in an hour. People don’t know that we have these kinds of resources when they show up to town.” To make the park even more attractive, the city is working on a multi-use bike-walk path funded in part by a Texas Parks and Wildlife grant. “When it’s complete, it will have a one-mile walk path through the park, lighted with solar lighting and an approximately half-mile loop for bikes that will also be lit,” Weaver says. “That’s going to open up a whole new opportunity for us for events like bike rodeos and runs.” Over at Lighthouse Beach Park young families can put their toes in the sand and make a splash in the shallow waters, while avid birders can search the wetlands for more than 429 bird species that have been sighted in the area. The park includes the Alcoa Birding Tower, as well as the Formosa Wetlands Walkway, which is an elevated walkway that runs through a wetlands Photo Courtesy of Tania French