Weches
Forest Trail Region
This town is the entry to Mission Tejas State Park, a site honoring the first Spanish mission in the Texas wilderness around 1690. Built in hopes of stemming the tide of French settlement, the mission, like others of the period, was later moved to San Antonio. Visitors today can enjoy a 1930s-era interpretation of Mission San Francisco de los Tejas that stands in the park, which is located in the Davy Crockett National Forest. Visitors can also see the restored 1828 Rice Family Log Home, where travelers along the section of El Camino Real de los Tejas known as the Old San Antonio Road sometimes stopped during the pioneer era.