Visitors to Caprock Canyons State Park on the Rolling Plains can enjoy a “Yellowstone-type experience” now that the Texas State Bison Herd has been allowed to graze on open range on more than 700 acres near the park entrance.

Once confined to a holding pen on 300 acres of the park, where they could be viewed at a distance from an overlook near the visitors center, the 80 descendants of the great southern plains bison herd were released in September to roam the grasslands below the escarpment in what park Superintendent Donald Beard describes as a “semi-free-ranging state.”