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Local events
The GREAT Texas Mosquito Festival
The GREAT Texas Mosquito Festival
July 24th - July 26th
The Great Texas Mosquito Festival is a fun-filled annual event held in Clute, Texas. It features a variety of activities including carnival rides, contests, cook-offs, live music, and children's activities like bounce houses and a petting zoo. The festival's mascot, Willie-Man-Chew, a 26-foot-tall mosquito, greets visitors and adds to the festive atmosphere.
SHARK!!!
The GREAT Texas Mosquito Festival
Saturday
August 2nd 11am-3pm
See and touch real shark specimens; chat with shark experts; participate in a Shark Scavenger Hunt (prizes for the first 100 winners); search for shark teeth in the sand pit; get your face painted; create a shark-themed craft; purchase snacks from vendors; and more!
Farmers Market
Lake Jackson Farmers Market
Saturday August 9th
9am - 1pm
Enjoy a stroll around Historic Downtown Lake Jackson! Local shopping, live music, and a great place to get unique gifts brought to you by Rise & Grind Coffee!
While you are there try one of downtowns amazing restaurants like, The Local, Growlers or Wayside Pub.
Not Hungry....stop into the Lake Jackson Historical Museum.
Tuesday-Saturday 10am-4pm
The Lake Jackson Historical Museum presents permanent and rotating exhibits that highlight major eras and influential figures of Lake Jackson history. From the Indigenous Karankawa people who lived on this land for thousands of years to the Dow Chemical Company workers who made Lake Jackson home during World War II, there is something for everyone to learn here.
Galveston events
SHARK WEEK
Saturday
July 26
We’re teaming up with Fahlo animal tracking bracelets for a Shark Week event you don’t want to miss. Come meet a real-life shark scientist from Texas A&M who tags the very sharks you’ll be able to track.
What’s happening:
• Meet & greet with a shark scientist
• Gifts with purchase
• Entry into a drawing for a Shark Week gi
Saturday
July 26
We’re teaming up with Fahlo animal tracking bracelets for a Shark Week event you don’t want to miss. Come meet a real-life shark scientist from Texas A&M who tags the very sharks you’ll be able to track.
What’s happening:
• Meet & greet with a shark scientist
• Gifts with purchase
• Entry into a drawing for a Shark Week gift basket
• Learn how Fahlo bracelets support real conservation work
Every bracelet helps protect endangered wildlife. Fahlo has donated more than $4.5 million to organizations like Saving the Blue.
Location: The Admiralty, 2221 Strand, Galveston
Open 10–7. Scientist on-site 1–4.
Bring a friend. Ask questions. Track a shark. See you Saturday.
FREE LESSONS
August 2nd, 9th, 16th
Attention sandcastle builders!
Galveston is hosting a free, family-friendly event to help beachgoers create spectacular sandcastles with guidance from a pro.
Participate in “Sandcastle Days” to receive free sandcastle-building lessons from a professional sandcastle builder. The lessons will take place at 11AM, 1PM,
August 2nd, 9th, 16th
Attention sandcastle builders!
Galveston is hosting a free, family-friendly event to help beachgoers create spectacular sandcastles with guidance from a pro.
Participate in “Sandcastle Days” to receive free sandcastle-building lessons from a professional sandcastle builder. The lessons will take place at 11AM, 1PM, and 3PM. Lessons are by the water’s edge, straight down from the East Beach Pavilion. Registration is not required.
Classic Cars and Music
Classic Cars and Music
Friday August 29th thru
Sunday August 31st
The Galveston Classic Car Auction
& Texas Music Festival at Moody Gardens.
Live Music all nights & the Classic Car Auction Saturday starting at Noon.
A full day of live auction action filled with classic cars, hot rods, & resto-‘mods, plus antiques, gas & oil signs, gas pumps, neon signs, Texas beer signs, antique guns & old west relics & more.
Galveston Attractions
Schlitterbauhn Waterpark
The waterpark features an exciting collection of water slides, wave rivers, and water coasters. A one-mile river connects the three distinct sections and has four high trill speed slides including Rohr!, Cliffhanger, and the immersive Screaming Serpents body slide.
Turtles About Town
Who doesn’t love a turtle? Now, you can get up close and personal with colorful Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle statues around the island. Turtles About Town is a public art project that showcases the conservation efforts of Turtle Island Restoration Network, a leading advocate for the world’s oceans and marine wildlife. Local businesses sponsored the turtles while local artists were commissioned to give each one its own personality and meaning.
Galveston - Downtown District
Galveston - Downtown District
The charming Victorian-era buildings of the Historic Downtown District beckon visitors with their ornate iron balconies and whimsical painted signs.
Shop
See the Sights
Take a Tour
Grab a Drink
Enjoy Live Music
The possibilities are endless!!
On the water in Galveston
Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier
Featuring waterfront fun and entertainment like no other Gulf Coast destination,
the Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier features family-oriented attractions including rides,
midway games, a wide selection of food venues and retail shops.
1877 Tall Ship ELISSA
Galvestson brought ELISSA, an 1877 square-rigged iron barque, from a scrapyard in Piraeus Harbor, Greece to Galveston to begin restoration work in 1978. By 1982, GHF staff and volunteers completed restoration and transformed this rare, historic vessel into a floating museum that would actively sail.
Seawall Boulevard
Seawall Boulevard
At more than 10 miles long and 17 feet high, Galveston’s seawall is the longest continuous sidewalk in the country and the world’s longest mural. Today, the iconic Seawall Boulevard is a happening place for beachgoers and serves as a gorgeous backdrop to a variety of shops, restaurants, attractions and gear rental stores
Local Learning
The Center for the Arts and Siences
Home to exhibits that include DINOSAURS, fossils, mammoth bones, a Megaladon jaw, rocks, minerals, and a very impressive sea shell collection. Along with these awesome exhibits, we also offer an interactive discovery area for children.
Admission to the Museum is free, however, visitors will be asked to obtain a ticket
Sea Center Texas
Sea Center Texas is a marine aquarium, fish hatchery and education center located on 75 acres in Lake Jackson,
Hours of Operation: Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
- Guests are required to wear face masks and maintain appropriate social distances
- No groups larger than five people are allowed, except for families living in the same household
- The touch tank is viewing only
- No hatchery tours are available at this time