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Port Arthur is in the Gulf Coast region of Texas.
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Temple, lotus garden and water garden. Free tours by appointment. Hosts annual lotus and bamboo festival in summer and lunar new year celebration.
Exhibits include history, natural history, fine and decorative art, and popular culture. The Museum's Music Hall of Fame features a permanent exhibit on the life and career of Janis Joplin who was born and raised in Port Arthur.
3,500-acre manmade island surrounded by Sabine Lake and the Sabine Neches Intracoastal Waterway. The Sabine Causeway at the south end of the island connects Texas and Louisiana. Activities include sailing, golfing, fishing, crabbing, boating, hiking, biking, birding, disc golfing, and camping.
Tours by appointment.
National Register of Historic Places-listed colonial-style home built in 1906. Tours by appointment.
Primarily exhibits works of local artists.
The Consul of the Netherlands built this home in 1905. Owned by Lamar State College - Port Arthur. Tours by appointment.
Historic home owned by Lamar State College - Port Arthur. Tours by appointment.
With rivers, a saltwater lake and the Gulf Coast surrounding Port Arthur, fishing is a natural pastime. You can suit yourself and find lots of good fishing holes by land or on the water. You can also go out with a guide. There are quite a few charter businesses found at the Port Arthur Chamber of Commerce website.
There is a nice walk or drive along Lakeshore Drive from Lamar State College to the White Haven house. A walkpath, sometimes open for car traffic, leads closer to the water. On one side you'll see the historic homes built along Lakeshore Drive in the early 20th century, on the other side you see the intracoastal waterway. If you are lucky a cargo ship or an oil tanker will pass by and remind you how small humans are. The walk is not recommended at night for safety reasons.
Parades, concerts and revelry take place the weekend before Fat Tuesday.
Extended stay hotel with full kitchens, microwaves, coffee makers, refrigerators, sofa sleepers, irons and ironing boards. Some rooms feature balconies.
Jack Brooks Regional Airport, formerly Jefferson County Airport (BPT).
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Beaumont/Port Arthur · Regional · BPT
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