Photo Gallery (U.S. National Park Service)

Scenery, flora, fauna, and recreation in Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas

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silhouettes of many bald cypress knees and their reflections in the ripples of a shallow creek along tall grasses.

Cypress Knees

4640 x 6960
4.9 MB

brown iron footbridge over a wide creek lined by thick, dark green trees.

Village Creek Bridge

3915 x 6960
5.3 MB

large sprawling oak tree with green leaves backlit with warm sunlight

Oak Illuminated

3456 x 5184
6.4 MB

a fly sitting on the lip of a pitcher plant

It's a Trap!

3195 x 2129
0.7 MB

Cypress knees gathered in a circle in a dry swamp in the forest.

Cypress Knees

4640 x 6960
5.9 MB

Palmetto fronds glowing in sunlight showing bright green color.

Palmettos

4640 x 6960
3.8 MB

grassy savannah with tall, thin pine trees spread out, and some green shrubs growing among the grasses.

Pine Savannah

3731 x 6634
6.4 MB

Colorful woods with beech trees displaying red-orange-yellow leaves, among trees with green leaves, in a dense forest. The air is damp and misty under a gray sky.

Autumn Woods

4640 x 6960
8.4 MB

thousands of green pitcher plants growing in a field

Pitcher Plant Field

3456 x 5184
9.1 MB

A black wasp crawling on a green funnel-like pitcher plant with red veins; a red flower is growing next to it.

Pitcher Plant and Insect

3106 x 4657
1.3 MB

A woodpecker with red head, and white and black coloring, perched on the side of a dead pine tree holes pecked into it.

Red-headed Woodpecker

2691 x 4037
1.6 MB

wooden cabin beneath a canopy of sprawling oak trees, surrounded by a grassy area.

Staley Cabin

3168 x 4752
5.3 MB

A reflective pond in a dense, green forest, with 2 big trees growing at the water's edge.

Beaver Slide Trail

2668 x 4000
9.1 MB

Afternoon sunlight shining on dwarf palmettos and hardwood trees in a forest.

Palmettos

4640 x 6960
10.2 MB

Several thin, rough, fire-scarred pine tree trunks and the ground covered in pine needles. A few shrubs dot the landscape between the trees.

Sandhill Loop Trail

2669 x 4000
9.1 MB

various tree species and their reflections in a river on a sunny day

Village Creek Reflections

1633 x 2448
1.0 MB

meandering trail through a pine forest, while ferns cover the ground floor

Sundew Trail

1752 x 3120
2.8 MB

Cypress knees poke up out of murky brown water that reflects the surrounding tree trunks on a gray, cloudy day.

Winter Flooding

4640 x 6960
3.8 MB

A close-up view of red and green pitcher plants

Pitcher plants close-up, Big T...

1728 x 2304
1.0 MB

A leaf-covered trail passing through a corridor of tall trees with green-yellow leaves in fall.

Woodlands Trail

2667 x 4000
7.9 MB

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