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Old 10-31-2008, 02:45 PM
 
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My wife and I were in the Rockwall/Heath area about 3 months ago. We made a two-week whirl wind tour of Georgia, Tennessee and Texas.

There were certain likes and dislikes about each and our dislike for Texas, although we could overlook it, was the lack of big trees. We were told prior to our trip to expect Tx to be big and flat and we found that to be true but we weren't expecting the lack of trees. Especially when compared to TN. or GA.

How far east of the Rockwall area do you have to go to find slight changes in elevation and more trees? Lindale, Tyler maybe? Farther east than that?

Thank you.
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Old 10-31-2008, 02:49 PM
 
Location: The Big D
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10 minutes up the road toward Quinlan and you will see plenty of trees. Even some parts of Rockwall County have a lot of large, mature trees. Go up 205 towards Wylie. Rolling terrain and trees. Visit The Shores in Rockwall (housing development and golf course) and you will find the area is NOT "flat".
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Old 10-31-2008, 03:03 PM
 
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We actually spent a bunch of time driving all over Rockwall, Heath and Royse City. There was some gentle roll to the ground but....

We wanted to go out to Tyler and Lindale but just flat ran out of time.

Is there even more trees the farther east you go? One thing for sure, in Texas, your biggest asset is the people. We went to a Thursday night concert at the Harbor in Rockwall and had a blast. Very nice people in those parts!
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Old 10-31-2008, 03:09 PM
 
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IMO the further east you go in Texas the larger and more varying the trees become..Unless you go to the Austin area..I hear they have a pretty good abundance of foliage. As you approach Tyler tree coverage should become more prevalent..as well as if you were to head south towards the Houston area. There you will encounter more and different kinds of vegetation as well.
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Old 10-31-2008, 09:39 PM
 
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If you go west you will be in the cross timbers area. It is a strip of old growth forest, extremely thick, and seemingly everywhere. The only open land is what has apparently been cleared.

The forest is really noticeable near the town of Aubrey, and it continues onward from there. If you go through Denton and on to Decatur via highway 380, you will definitely be in forest country. North of Decatur is the so-called LBJ National Grassland, but the land is actually forest... It will look and feel very different than what you have been seeing just east of Dallas.
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Old 11-01-2008, 01:54 AM
 
Location: Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas
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There are also many areas around the Lake Tawakoni just east of Rockwall that are very wooded.

Naima
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Old 11-01-2008, 07:18 AM
 
Location: Kaufman County, Texas
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My parents live in Poetry in Hunt County, and their neighborhood is all wooded. The trees are mostly oaks.
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Old 11-01-2008, 11:10 AM
 
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Or you could go to Fort Worth, Arlington, Grand Prairie, Cedar Hill, Irving, South Dallas, East Dallas, Oak Cliff, North Dallas, Turtle Creek, Highland Park, University Park. All saturated with mature oaks and pecans in watersheds.

OPs move into old highland prairie pastures blanketed with McMansions, "Hey there're no trees!. I knew it! Just like Bonanza!"
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Old 11-02-2008, 06:56 AM
 
Location: North of DFW
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We live in Hideaway Lake which is 3 miles from Lindale. Here is the web-site....
Hideaway Lake Club, Inc.
Rolling hills....tons of trees! We love it!

Last edited by destin04; 11-02-2008 at 06:57 AM.. Reason: adding info.
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Old 11-02-2008, 07:24 AM
 
Location: A little suburb of Houston
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Texas is divided into several regions. From Tyler eastward and southward to Houston you will start running into the a heavily treed region with the great pinewoods of Texas being roughly along Hwy 59. S, SE, and SW of Houston is the coastal prairie. Dallas area is in the prairie region (non-coastal type)with rolling hills and smallish stands of trees (talking natural, not imposed) especially along waterways. That region extends northward through OK to KS. West of Fort Worth you start getting into the plains region then desert regions. Austin is in what is described as the hill country w/ yet another unique geology and ecosystem. I did not cover it all, but you can tell that different parts of Texas have wildly differing geography. Really hard to judge by a snapshot view.
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