Shadow Creek Ranch
Nature Trail Park
“Enjoy walking through this beautiful nature ”
Shadow Creek Ranch Nature Trail (Pearland)
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Bridge Information Trail
This map shows the exact location of how to get to The Shadow Creek Ranch Nature Trail at 4141 Bailey Road, Pearland, TX 77584
The Shadow Creek Ranch Nature Trail is approximately a 42-acre park that focuses on natural experiences for visitors. This park is also a place for visitors to explore and connect with the beautiful nature. The park also provides paved trails, educational signage, bicycle racks, elevated observation platforms, binoculars, and natural vistas for viewing. Additionally, the park includes dog walks and has nice beautiful picnic tables available.
This map shows the inside of the park. If you go to the park, you should be able to see a park map that provides lots of information about the park.
The Shadow Creek Ranch Nature Park has the most beautiful ponds. The ponds attract abundant waterfowl beginning in the fall and lasting through the winter. This will bring a large number of waterbirds, who will enjoy the ponds.
The Prairie is blooming and behind them, there are tons of wildflowers, grasses, and plants that are native prairie. This park mostly has native plants because this park has animal species, which need the plants to survive. Butterflies, bees, and wasps benefit the most from this park prairie. Another important feature that you may want to know about the prairie is that the roots that are part of grasses and flowers sometimes will go 5, 10, and even 20 feet.
History of The Shadow Creek Ranch Nature Trail
The Shadow Creek Ranch Nature Trail was converted to agriculture by the early 1940s. Historically, the Shadow Creek Ranch Nature Trail was once a Coastal Tallgrass Prairie before major disturbances. Coastal Tallgrass Prairie is described as a grassland that was once dominated by the Gulf Coast. It is 100 miles, and it can stretch to Corpus Christi, TX along the coast to Lafayette, LA. Because soon The Shadow Creek Ranch Nature Trail will be built, some original acreage remains due to multiple factors, which include conversion of land for agriculture practices, and invasive species expansion, lack of management, and urban development. The Coastal Tallgrass Prairie has a loss of habitat, which is the past 50 years, the grassland bird populations have seen sharp declines. Another of the habitat loss is that several species are decreasing to 80%.
Prairie
