The Brazos carries more water than any other river wholly inside Texas, and it has spent the last several thousand years swinging back and forth across this floodplain rather than staying put. The result is a meander belt several miles wide, full of abandoned channels and crescent-shaped oxbow lakes that mark where the river used to be. The deep silt it left behind grows bottomland hardwood forest — pecan, cedar elm, sugarberry and green ash — and it is the reason Stephen F. Austin chose to settle his first colonists here in 1824 rather than on the prairie above.
Getting there
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