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I recently moved to central Texas and was wondering if anyone knows a good place to find a high concentration and variety of snakes, I am working on a photo journal of Texas snakes and it seems I have exhausted the state and local parks within a 50 mile radius. There is nothing more exciting than finding rare and uncommon snakes in their natural habitat. If anyone has any suggestions I would be very grateful. Thanks

During college in Austin 25 years ago we could find coral snakes, copperheads, and atrox while day hunting in the spring near Lake Belton. Also Bastrop state park was good for copperheads road hunting at night. Most of the hot spots around Austin have been built up into housing,malls, etc... We used to spend most of our time actually heading south to Cotulla or southwest to Val Verde county.

Where at around lake belton, Miller Springs is seemingly void of snakes and most of the other parks are too populated. I will check out Bastrop though, thank you.

I don't remember exactly where at Lake Belton. It's been a long time.(1982-1984). There was an area of steep ground with some cliffs/ledges said to be copperhead dens. Fairly lush vegetation-thats where we'd get copperheads and coral snakes. Above this area was a little more arid and we'd find atrox at the base of small bushes. Of course all this may have changed or be a housing complex now-I don't know. Walking Barton Creek in Austin was occasionally productive but never in any kind of large numbers of herps.