Partners in Action

Over the past few years, the Partners have been working hard to help the Park prepare for opening day.
Our projects have included:

• Trail clearing and cleaning – 2023-present.
• Helped with the purchase of insulation for the temporary maintenance barn, surveillance camera on the back park gate and tractor tire repair.
• Purchased an all-terrain Action Trackchair and 2 GRIT all-terrain wheelchairs with funds received through a grant from the Ken W. Davis Foundation. These chairs will be available for use in the Park, free of charge.
• Collected 3000lbs of plastic film for the NexTrex recycling program, awarding the Park 3 new park benches. A special “Thank you” to the Strawn Chamber of Commerce and The Each and Everyone Foundation for sponsoring bench # 2 and # 3, and to our PPMSPP Members, Weatherford Tractor Supply, Gordon Hardware, and surrounding area folks that contributed their recyclable plastic film (grocery bags) to help us reach our goal.
• Participated in assembling of fish habitat structures that were installed around the fishing pier.
• Participated in the 2025 Golden Cheeked Warbler Survey for TPWD.
• Participating in the Strawn Farmer’s Market. Raising awareness and meeting new park enthusiasts – 2023-present.
• Purchasing 2 mounted binocular views with EnChroma lenses to correct color blindness. These lenses will not affect non-colorblind users and will be mounted on the accessible trail in the Park. These binoculars will be purchased with funds received though our 2 nd grant from the Ken W. Davis Foundation.

In the beginning stages of the park, several volunteer groups assisted with Park projects:

• Fort Worth Audubon Society, May 2013 – Native Bird Survey
• Native Plant Society (Cross Timbers Chapter) & Texas Master Naturalist, January 2014 – Designed & built butterfly garden – January 2014
• Trail Work Day, March 2015 – Over 20 volunteers, including the Texas Equestrian Trail Riders Association (TETRA) and the North Texas Range Riders (NTTR), cleared several miles of equestrian and hiking trails.
• Star Parties 2013/2014/2015 – The Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas (TAS) and the Fort Worth Astronomical Society (FWAS) have both provided volunteers and telescopes for semi-annual stargazing parties beginning in the Spring of 2013.
• Strawn Chamber of Commerce, April 2015 – 2015 Texas Trash-Off/Keep Strawn Beautiful Clean-up Day – Volunteers scraped and painted picnic tables at old city park below Lake Tucker.

Your membership supports our efforts to ensure that Palo Pinto Mountains State Park is well funded and developed and the natural beauty of this North Texas gem is preserved for future generations. All funds are used for park improvement and educational efforts.