Trips from Hackberry, starting with Spindletop
Big Thicket National Preserve draws about 228K visitors a year. Nothing is mapped inside Hackberry, but 4 places to visit are within 40 miles. The commonest are a landmark, a national preserve and a museum. Set 40 mi out, Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum makes a day trip.
Spindletop
Oil field in Texas.
The towns around it, and where to stay →
The lie of the land
Head to the west for most of the 4 on the list.
Orange: Hackberry. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors
The places, one by one
13 places, all within 60 miles, make the list.
2Big Thicket National Preserve
Heavily-forested area of Southeast Texas in the United States.
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5Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum & Visitor Center
Sports museum in Beaumont, Texas.
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11Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center
Botanical garden, nature center in Orange, Texas.
12Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.
Parks and trails in Hackberry → · Hackberry’s history →
Photo credits
Spindletop: i_am_jim, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Big Thicket National Preserve: NPS, Public domain · Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum: i_am_jim, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Art Museum of Southeast Texas: R. Rothenberger, CC BY 3.0 · Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum & Visitor Center: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Edison Museum: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Fire Museum of Texas: R. Rothenberger, CC BY 3.0 · Beaumont Botanical Gardens: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain · Texas Energy Museum: JJonahJackalope, CC BY-SA 4.0
