Swimming Holes

Family-oriented private swimming venue in the Golden Triangle/SE Texas region with volleyball and rental pavilions.

Small CCC-era lake surrounded by pine and hardwood forest in far East Texas.

Small, quiet East Texas state park with a fishing/swimming lake.

One of the largest reservoirs in the South, straddling the Texas-Louisiana border, with numerous swimming beaches.

Texas’s only natural lake of significant size, famous for its cypress trees and Spanish moss; swimming is possible but paddling

State park on B.A. Steinhagen Lake (Angelina/Neches rivers) with swimming and extensive wetlands.

A managed natural/artificial lagoon in Huntsville popular with certified scuba divers.

The closest natural swimming to Houston (~1 hr), inside Sam Houston National Forest’s Piney Woods.

Sandbar swimming spot on a scenic creek bordering the Big Thicket National Preserve’s old-growth remnants.

Historic swimming hole dammed by a settler in the 1800s, tucked deep in Angelina National Forest.