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Tyler State Park

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Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Tyler State Park
Phone:
+1 903-597-5338

Hours:
Sunday8am - 5pm
Monday8am - 5pm
Tuesday8am - 5pm
Wednesday8am - 5pm
Thursday8am - 5pm
Friday8am - 9pm
Saturday8am - 7pm


Tyler is the county seat of Smith County, located in east-central Texas, United States. The city of Tyler has long been Smith County's major economic, educational, financial, medical, and cultural hub. The city is named for John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States. Tyler had a population of 96,900 in 2010, according to the United States Census Bureau, and Tyler's 2017 estimated population was 104,991. It is 100 miles east-southeast of Dallas. Tyler is the principal city of the Tyler Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a population of 209,714 in 2010, and is the regional center of the Tyler-Jacksonville combined statistical area, which had a population of 260,559 in 2010. Tyler is known as the Rose Capital of America , a nickname it earned from a long history of rose production, cultivation, and processing. It is home to the largest rose garden in the United States, a 14-acre public garden complex that boasts over 38,000 rose bushes of at least 500 different varieties. The Tyler Rose Garden is also home to the annual Texas Rose Festival, attracting tourists by the thousands each year in mid-October. Tyler is also home to the Caldwell Zoo and Broadway Square Mall. As a regional educational and technology center, Tyler is the host for more than 20,000 higher-education students, a college of engineering, and a university health science center, two regional, billion-dollar hospital systems, and a variety of technology startups. In 1985, the international Adopt-a-Highway movement originated in Tyler. After appeals by local Texas Department of Transportation officials, the local Civitan chapter adopted a 2-mi stretch of U.S. Highway 69 to maintain. Drivers and other motorists traveling on this segment of US-69 will notice brown road signs that read, First Adopt-A-Highway in the World.
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