Abilene State Park, State park in Abilene, Texas.

Abilene State Park covers 529.4 acres beside Lake Abilene in Taylor County, where the Rolling Plains meet the Edwards Plateau. Elm Creek runs through wooded stream valleys below the Callahan Divide hills, with short prairie grass and brushland around it. Civilian Conservation Corps crews built the concession stand from local limestone and red Permian sandstone.

The park was built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps as part of training and employment programs during the Great Depression. Its distinctive stone structures, including a water tower and swimming pool, date to this era.

Tonkawa and Comanche passed through and camped here while hunting bison, and human presence in the park dates back at least 6,000 years. The stone water tower, pump house, fountains and picnic tables built by CCC companies 1823(V) and 1823(CV) between 1933 and 1935 remain for visitors to see.

Camping is available for recreational vehicles and tents, with picnic shelters, a swimming pool, a bird blind, playground and hiking trails; there are also a volleyball court and fields for soccer and baseball. The park sits beside Lake Abilene, where fishing, kayaking, canoeing and boating are possible. Trails cross short prairie grass, brushland and wooded stream valleys in the Callahan Divide hills.

Buffalo Wallow is a pond in the park where largemouth bass, channel catfish, crappie, perch and seasonally stocked rainbow trout are caught. The park's 529.4 acres sit where the Rolling Plains and Edwards Plateau meet, in the Callahan Divide hills; Indian Mountain rises about 1.6 km to the south.