2 Short Nature Trails

Spring Creek Park is a fairly large park in Tomball.  It has several very nice picnic areas, tennis courts, a volleyball court, two playgrounds for kids, and FREE overnight camping (by reservation only - call 281-353-4196).  It is a nice park to spend the day with family and friends.

The park also offers two short nature trails with a combined length about 1.5 - 2 miles.  These nature trails do not appear on the park map, so let me explain where they are.

The first trail starts on the "O" loop.  It's a dirt path that heads through the woods and emerges at a primitive group camping site used by the Boy Scouts.  You can continue for a short way beyond this campsite down the hill towards the grassy field.  There the trail will loop back around.  It will fork at one point.  If you go left, you will go back the way you came.  If you go right, you will walk along the park boundary behind some houses and eventually emerge by the Maintenance Area at the top of the hill.

The second trail starts on the opposite side of the street near the playground by the basketball pavillion.  It is basically a "C" shaped trail that takes you through the woods and finishes about 1/3 mile down the road.  You have to walk back along the road to get back to where you started.

The trails only have signs at the trailhead.  There are no signs or distance markers along the paths.  Nice walk, but nothing exciting.