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Hight rate 2 location for tourist in Edna, TX, USA
06-2025 Edna Town Monument in Hight rate 2 location for tourist in Edna, TX, USASandy Creek Park - Jasper Julia Vang: Gorgeous park with a dog friendly walking trail next to a running creek. Theres also an impressive basketball court with a shade structure and fans. The area around the park is also beautifully paved and well kept. Definitely a gem.
Lookout Shelter - Fort Davis Werner Schueller: Lots of after hours sketchy characters obviously not paying state park entrance fees. Anything goes it seems.
Davis Mountains Preserve - Fort Davis Cassidy Lackey: Got into the march ‘25 weekend. Long, rough drive to the base of Mt Livermore. Glad I had a high clearance 4x4. The hike to Baldy peak was awesome but incredibly windy at the peak. Glad I did it! The people here were super friendly and helpful.
University of Texas McDonald Observatory - Fort Davis Bradford Chase: This is a great visit if you have an afternoon and evening to be in the area.
I made reservations a week prior for a guided tour, a solar viewing, and the evening Star Party. I showed up at 12:30 pm and the Solar Viewing started at 1pm and lasted about 45min. It included a great presentation about the sun and included live feeds from their solar telescope with lots of great information. Very cool!
At 2:00 pm the guided tour starts with a brief overview of what to expect and then a trip up to the two biggest telescopes they have with a detailed discussion of how they work and how they are used. They do not have any daytime viewing but the tour was excellent. The entire tour lasted about 2 hours.
There is a 4 hour break before the Star Party starts. Sign in between 8:30-9 and the program starts at dark around 9:30 this time of year. We had some clouds come in but we did get a little time on the telescopes and then went inside for a “make up” presentation that show slides of what we were supposed to see. Even missing out on a full 2 hours of telescopes the program was fantastic. The staff is great and their passion shows for what they do.
John Jay French Museum - Beaumont Angela Miller: This would have been a very interesting place to stop but they were doing renovations. Instead of telling us to come another day they didnt mention it so we drove 30 minutes to only be able to see 3/4 of the house. It was free so that was good. The lady doing the tour was also very informative.
