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CHOKE CANYON STATE PARK. Choke Canyon State Park consists of two units beside the 26,000-acre Choke Canyon Reservoir. The 385-acre South Shore Unit is on State Highway 72 four miles west of Three Rivers in Live Oak County, and the 1,100-acre Calliham Unit is on State Highway 72 eleven miles west of Three Rivers in McMullen County. The park was acquired in 1981 in a fifty-year cooperative agreement among the United States Bureau of Reclamation, the city of Corpus Christi, and the Nueces River Authority.^qv Much of the area is former ranchland and is covered with the brushy scrub typical of South Texas. The abundant wildlife ranges from javelinas and white-tailed deer to Rio Grande turkeys and coyotes. Each unit provides picnic sites, restrooms, showers, a trailer dump station, campsites, a group shelter, a playground, and a boat ramp. The Calliham Unit also has a swimming pool and a hiking trail.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Ray Miller, Texas Parks (Houston: Cordovan, 1984).

Christopher Long

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