College Station: Culture, Campus and Nature
Accommodation in College Station
In College Station, you’ll find a range of themes to help plan your trip: Bonfire history and memorial sites, campus tours, art, gardens, and trails. Ways to explore range from guided tours to self-guided orientation and designated trails.
Bonfire History and Memorial Sites
At the Bonfire Memorial, on-site tours explain the Bonfire tradition, the events leading up to the 1999 collapse, and its aftermath. The Memorial’s History Walk features a timeline of 89 granite stones, representing 90 years of the Bonfire tradition before the collapse. The number of stones and the period represented are therefore not the same.
At the Brazos Valley Veterans Memorial, the Wall of Honor bears the engraved names of more than 6,000 veterans. The Lynn Stuart Pathway connects the memorial sites along a route of about half a mile.
The George H. W. Bush Presidential Library & Museum offers a different way to explore history: visitors can research more than 43 million pages of documents and view thousands of museum objects. Its scale brings research and exhibits together in one destination.
Campus, Art, and Local History
Texas A&M University’s Howdy Crew offers guided campus tours for individuals and groups. The Appelt Aggieland Visitor Center’s 90-minute walking tour is designed for prospective students and their families. It introduces the history, traditions, and academic opportunities of Texas A&M University. The tours therefore differ in their intended audience and format.
For art enthusiasts, the gallery at the Arts Center of the Brazos Valley features a rotating collection of visual art, sculpture, photography, and mixed media. Historic Northgate has a self-guided map that shows how the neighborhood has changed over the decades. It is also home to a 50-meter-long walkway paved with hundreds of thousands of bottle caps.
Gardens and Trails
The Gardens at Texas A&M University is a public garden and green space on the university’s West Campus. The Leach Teaching Gardens cover seven acres and include 21 themed gardens. The area and number offer two different points of reference: the size of the grounds and their thematic layout.
Lick Creek Park is a 523-acre nature preserve in College Station. The paved Lick Creek Greenway Trail is about three miles long and runs between Westfield Park and Lick Creek Park. Wolf Pen Creek Park has a 2.7-mile paved trail network, as well as an amphitheater with lawn seating for 7,000 people.
When planning your day, you can compare activities by format: a 90-minute campus tour provides a specific time frame, while the trails can be compared by their stated lengths. The two endpoints of the Lick Creek Greenway are also named.
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