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Piney Woods, United States
Photo: USDA photo by Larry Rana, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Deep East Texas is in the Piney Woods of Texas, to the north and east of Houston.
Take Interstate 45 north out of Houston, or Interstate 69 northeast from Houston.
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Beaumont/Port Arthur · Regional · BPT
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has several sites related to Texas hero, General Sam Houston, who lived here
has a zoo and a couple of museums
there's fishing and boating on the Sam Rayburn Reservoir
the oldest city in the state
site of Spanish mission on the El Camino Real de los Tejas
a suburban bedroom community of Houston that hosts the Houston Symphony during the summer
site of the NASA Museum and Memorial honoring those who perished in the Space Shuttle Columbia accident of 2003
one of the most biodiverse areas in the world outside of the tropics
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