Copper Breaks State Park, Texas [official]

[music] A few hours north of Abilene on the banks of the Pease river sits Copper Breaks State Park. Once home to tribes of Kiowa and Comanche, the park's 1900 acres are a mix of grass covered mesas and red rock canyons. The geologic history of the land dates to the Permean period. About 240 million years ago, this was the beach and if you look carefully you can actually see the fossilized ripples of the sand and the wave action of the water coming in. So I'm probably standing, oh, about ankle deep in the water right now. Copper Breaks gets its name from the rugged broken terrain and the greenish bands of rock that contain small deposits of copper. It's just a tremendous nature park. It seems very harsh but again, there's a lot of wildlife biodiversity out here. It was an unusually wet year for us and so we have a spectacular bluebonnet bloom We've got some purple sage around us right now, the stuff that turns into tumbleweeds. And then there's all the DWFs... the darn yellow flowers that I can't identify for you. Once visitors discover Copper Breaks there's a good chance that they, like these Cub Scouts from nearby Munday, Texas will return to the park again and again. We camped here about 2 years ago, decided we like it and came back again this year. It's real close and it's a nice place to go. See that bobber? See how far I casted it? It has 2 small lakes, the big pond which is about 13 acres thought to be spring-fed. There's the 60 acre lake at Copper Breaks. And there's bass, cat, crappie and perch, some good fishing out there. [music] The park's Visitors Center show- cases the history of the region. Exhibits honor the Native Americans that once occupied the area, including Quanah Parker, the last great war chief of the Comanche Nation. Did I mention the longhorns? We have 11 head of the Texas State Longhorn Herd. This is Little Bit. He's the one that's spoiled. And we do a program Friday and Saturday called Meet the Longhorns. There's 2 of them that will eat out of your hands There's 2 of them that will eat out of your hands Now this isn't just any cow slobber. This is authentic Texas State Longhorn slobber. Cow felt weird! It's not an accidental pass-by park. You've gotta be coming here. But what's nice about this park is it is quiet, which you can enjoy even if it's busy, the sense of solitude and privacy and quiet.