Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown Museum
Under $25A recreated 1901 boomtown near Beaumont with 15 replica buildings marking the Spindletop oil discovery.
Transit: reachable by public transit

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A roughly 500-acre municipal park in Beaumont with a golf course, botanical gardens, a conservatory, and trails.
Beaumont, TX
Tyrrell Park is a city-run park in Beaumont, Texas, covering about 500 acres. It holds an eighteen-hole golf course named for Henry Homberg, plus the Beaumont Botanical Gardens and the Warren Loose Conservatory, which is described as the second largest public conservatory in Texas. Visitors can use a hiking trail, an equestrian center, and several sports and outdoor facilities. The park sits in a migratory bird flyway and is listed on the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail. Next to it is Cattail Marsh, a nature center of about 900 acres with its own hiking trail.
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A recreated 1901 boomtown near Beaumont with 15 replica buildings marking the Spindletop oil discovery.
Transit: reachable by public transit
4.3 mi awaySwitch it up: Museums
University art museum on the Lamar University campus in Beaumont, serving both teaching and public exhibition needs.
Transit: reachable by public transit
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Roman Catholic cathedral in Beaumont, Texas, built in an Italian Renaissance revival style and recorded as a Texas Historic Landmark in 1980.
Transit: reachable by public transit
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Free 1906 Beaux-Arts mansion museum in Beaumont with original furnishings, a carriage house and gardens.
Transit: reachable by public transit
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