Padre Island National Seashore

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Padre Island National Seashore encompasses 130,434 acres of America's vanishing barrier islands. In addition to a wide variety of flora and fauna, the island also provides recreational opportunities for everyone to feel the wind in their faces and the surf on their feet. It is the longest remaining undeveloped barrier island in the world, protecting rare coastal prairie; a complex, dynamic dune system; and the Laguna Madre, one of the few hypersaline lagoon environments left in the world.

The National Seashore and surrounding waters provide important habitat for marine and terrestrial plants and animals, including a number of rare, threatened, and endangered species. Situated along the Central Flyway, Padre Island is a globally important area for over 350 migratory, overwintering, and resident bird species.

The National Seashore's remote location also makes it one of the few places where the public can find quiet and solitude relatively near a major urban area and where one can observe the night sky with minimal interference from light pollution. The National Seashore is also one of the few places the public can go to see sea turtle hatchlings being released into the wild.

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Padre Island Park Company is located on Padre Island National Seashore, on the Gulf of Mexico, southeast of the city of Corpus Christi, Texas.

From Corpus Christi, take the JFK Bridge to Park Road 22. Padre Island Park Company is approximately 14 miles from the bridge.