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Houston's Greens Bayou Paddling Trail has become the 90th paddling trail in Texas. The 7.7-mile trail will be celebrated by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department with a ribbon-cutting at 8 a.m.

HOUSTON — If you can’t find something fun to do outdoors in Texas, then you’re not trying! Texas Parks and Wildlife is making it even easier. They’ve launched a website, showing paddling trails across ...

Kayakers get ready! A 7.7 mile stretch of water on Greens Bayou in the heart of Houston has just been anointed by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) as an official paddling trail — just in ...

Before dawn on a cold January morning in 2014, Veronica Sosa, a relative newcomer to long-distance canoeing, set out with a teammate on a 62-mile paddle race down the Colorado River. The temperature ...

The 7.7-mile trail will be celebrated by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department with a ribbon-cutting at 8 a.m. Saturday at Brock Adventure Park in northeast Houston. “We’re thrilled to add the ...