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( 936-462-8000;
http://banitacreekhall.com
; 401 W Main St; 8pm-midnight Wed-Fri, 8pm-1am Sat)
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Nacogdoches Convention & Visitors Bureau
( 936-564-7351;
www.visitnacogdoches.org
; 200 E Main St;
9am-5pm Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm Sat, 1-4pm Sun)
This remarkably thorough visitor center has pamph-
lets on just about any area subject that might interest you.
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Around Nacogdoches
Remnants of Texas' Native American history are few and far between. So the 1200-year-
old ceremonial mounds at
Caddoan Mounds State Historic Site
( 936-858-3218;
www.visitcaddomounds.com
; 1649 Hwy 21 W, Alto; adult/child $2/1; 8:30am-4:30pm Tue-Sun; )
, just 25
miles east of Nacogdoches, are worth noting. Learn more from the small museum's exhib-
its and interpretive trail. It's a nice picnic spot, too.
El Camino Real, the royal road connecting missions between Mexico City and current-
day Louisiana, ran right through Nacogdoches. At
Mission Tejas State Park
(
info 800-792-1112,
reservations 512-389-8900;
www.tpwd.state.tx.us/missiontejas
; 105 Park Rd 44, Grapeland; adult/child $2/free;
8:30am-4:30am Tue-Sun)
, 32 miles east of town, you can see a replica of the 17th-century Mis-
sion San Francisco de los Tejas, tour a 19th-century log cabin and hike in the footsteps of
Davy Crockett on a part of the road itself. The pleasant, 660-acre park also has shady, re-
servable campsites ($10 to $15).
Thirty-five miles north of Nacogdoches, relive the glory days of the steam engine on
the
Texas State Railroad
( 877-726-7245;
www.texasstaterr.com
; Hwy 84; adult/child $32/23; 11am Sat &
Sun Mar-Apr & Sep-Nov, 11am Fri-Sun May-Aug; )
. Four-hour, round-trip train rides travel
through dogwood bloom-filled forests between Rusk and Palatine. Either direction you
go, the train stops long enough for a picnic lunch before returning.
