After investing $72 million in improvements at Fairfield Lake State Park over three decades, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is out. The state has 120 days to vacate the property.
The view from a lakeside campsite at Fairfield Lake State Park. The park, which opened to the public in 1976 on land leased to the state, will close at the end of February after the owners sold the land to a private developer.Fairfield Lake State Park, 96 miles south of Dallas, is expected to close permanently by the end of the month because its landlord has sold the land.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Chair Arch"Beaver" Aplin III said the agency attempted to purchase the state park site, but neither the company nor the buyer would consider selling part or all of the land to the state. The park includes 1,460 acres of land and the 2,400-acre Fairfield Lake. "This is an unprecedented loss of a state treasure for Texans," said David Yoskowitz, executive director of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department."The demand for outdoor recreation exceeds supply in Texas, so losing even one state park is a setback for all of us who enjoy publicly accessible lands."
"This is one of their big attractors in their community," Aplin said of the Fairfield area."People come to the park and shop in the town of Fairfield. We had 83,000 people come to the park last year. It's a big deal, not only for our agency, but for the community and Freestone County.
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