My recent We are a paddling family. I started at 12 years old with 8 hour canoe trips with my family. After a magical moment in Jamaica, I found my love for stand up paddle boarding. We taught our dog to paddle board with me. This year our daughter got her own kayak for her birthday. We may own a small fleet of paddling craft. We’ve taken them all over the state of Texas, attempting to paddle in as many locations as possible. This is by no means a comprehensive list of places to paddle in Texas, but more of a list of our favorite places we’ve paddled so far, kid tested and mother approved. Texas is huge. I recently read that El Paso, Texas is closer to LA than it is to Houston, Texas. Even though our family has visited 25 of the 83 state parks, I feel we have yet to even scratch the surface of everything our state has to offer. There are easily hundreds of places to paddle around the state, if not thousands. Still, these are a few of our favourites.