Armand Bayou Center
The Armand Bayou Nature Center is a large 2500 acre urban preserve located in Southeast Houston. We highly recommend a visit if you’re in the area!
The entrance fee is $6 for adults, but definitely worth the price! You can easily spend a half day or more here exploring the different trails. The preserve features 5 miles of well-maintained trails including the more popular Discovery Nature Loop (with a bison viewing platform!)
Picture of entire 5 miles of trail 
Discovery loop map 
Discovery loop map
At the Armand Bayou Center, you can also see plenty of other wildlife. We saw a deer wandering the trails. There is also a quail viewing enclosure and an educational exhibit home to reptiles and amphibians. The highlight is definitely the bison!
Educational reptile and amphibian exhibit 
Quail enclosure
We did the Prairie Interpretative Loop and Discovery Loop during our day here. Total time spent at the preserve was about 2 hours. We love the educational placards set up throughout the trails. The trails were also very clearly labeled throughout the park.
Trails are all cleary labeled 
Educational placard on Discovery Loop 
Educational placard on Prairie Loop
The Discovery Loop
The Discovery Loop starts off at the admissions office and is partially a boardwalk and partially a forested trail that leads you through two beautiful lakes, a 19th century farm complete with an active vegetable garden, and ends with the popular bison viewing platform. Check out our photos fro the trail below!
Prairie Interpretative Trail
From the Discovery Loop, you can also branch off to take the short 0.5 mile prairie interpretative loop near the farmhouse. The prairie loop is a grassy trail that explains the importance of the endangered coastal prairie habitat! We ended our day here
Read more about the park at: https://www.abnc.org/
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