| Cities & Towns of the East Texas Piney Woods Region |
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| Alto Atlanta Athens Big Sandy Camden Carthage Center Cleveland Coldspring Conroe Crockett Daingerfield Gilmer Gladewater Grapeland Hallsville Hemphill Henderson Huntsville Jacksonville Jasper Jefferson Joinerville Karnack Kilgore Kirbyville Kountze Liberty Livingston Longview |
Lufkin Lumberton Marshall Mineola Montgomery Moscow Mount Pleasant Nacogdoches New London Newton Palestine Pittsburg Quitman Rusk San Augustine Saratoga Shenandoah Silsbee Tatum Texarkana The Woodlands Tyler Uncertain Waskom Weches Winnsboro Woodville Zavalla |
Piney Woods of East Texas Region
Regional Highlights
Texas State Railroad, Palestine
Rose Gardens, Tyler
Caddo Lake, Uncertain
Antiques shopping and historic B&Bs, Jefferson
"There are a lot of jewels here and there," Howard
Rosser, former executive director of the East Texas Tourism Association once told
us. Those jewels are found all up and down the Texas-Louisiana border in
small towns that offer luxurious bed-and-breakfast inns and loads of antiques
shopping.
East Texas is an especially popular getaway during the fall. Here you can spend a weekend camping among a cushion of pine needles, enjoying small town festivals that celebrate the changing season, and cruising the countryside to see color displays.
Bordered on the north by Ross Perot's hometown of
Texarkana; on the east by Texas's only natural lake, Caddo Lake,
East Texas is a land of piney woods, antiques shops, and hallowed
century-old neighborhoods.
If you're traveling west from Shreveport, Louisiana to
Dallas on I-20, detour to Jefferson,
an historic community often called the tourist capital of East Texas.
This town lets visitors step back in time to the heyday of river travel.
You'll discover that the woods lining the highway drap an antiques shopper's
paradise. Marshall, where potters have been mining clay from East Texas's
rolling hills for more than a century, turns out more than a million pots
each year. In Rusk, ancient
steamers of the Texas State Railroad Historic park take visitors on a
19th-century train ride.You may board in either Rusk or Palestine at one
of the historic depots then take the memorable ride.
Spring is also a top time to visit East Texas thanks to the incredible rose crop of Tyler and the dogwood in Palestine.
Shopping find plenty of flea market opportunities in Canton
during Trade Days or, for those looking for pottery, Marshall
never disappoints.
