The national trails system objectives are to preserve, protect, and develop the components of the national trails system, with a strong emphasis on volunteer involvement through financial assistance…

The national trails system objectives are to preserve, protect, and develop the components of the national trails system, with a strong emphasis on volunteer involvement through financial assistance agreements to operate, develop, and maintain any portion of such a trail either within or outside a federally administered area. Friends of the texas historical commission will carry out the purposes of the national trails system act by strengthening caddo mounds state historic sites connections to EL camino real DE LOS tejas national historic trail through new interpretive perspectives and new trail mileage while also improving access. Caddo mounds state historic site is an ideal publicly owned site for introducing visitors to EL camino real DE LOS tejas national historic trail through the lens of the caddo, ancestral inhabitants of east texas that played a major role in spanish colonization efforts. This project represents an opportunity to enrich the site for future generations of visitors, offering more trails, new interpretation, volunteer opportunities, and a more comprehensive story of the sites importance to EL camino real DE LOS tejas.beneficiaries include individual family, profit organization, quasi-public nonprofit organization, other private institution organization, anyone general public, interstate, native american organizations, intrastate, state, local, federally recognized indian tribal governments, general public, and states or their political subdivisions, landowners, private organizations, or individuals.