Houston, Texas

Quick Area Guide

As the fourth largest city in the U.S., Houston has something for everyone--from professional sports to outdoor adventures to incredible dining.

Attractions

Space Center Houston

Houston's top attraction is the official visitor's center for NASA, where simulations allow you to experience what it's like to walk in space or land on the moon. Visitors can also tour the NASA control center.

The Houston Zoo

The Houston Zoo has more than 4,500 animals and hosts 1.5 million guests each year.

Houston Symphony

The mission of the Houston Symphony is to foster excellence and innovation in the performance and presentation of great music; to enrich the lives of a diverse citizenry; to educate current and future audiences; and to bring distinction to the community through the orchestra's international presence and standing.

Golf and Tennis

Wildcat Golf Club

Wildcat is Houston golf with a touch of the Hill Country...even a touch of Colorado's Rocky Mountain foothills, according to the Houston Chronicle's Eddie Sefko. Only 10 minutes from downtown, Wildcat rises from the flat Texas terrain to create a golf experience like no other in the area.

Museums

Houston Museum of Natural Science

As one of the most heavily visited museums in the U.S. and one of the most visited venues in Houston, the Houston Museum of Natural Science strives to continually offer new, entertaining and innovative educational exhibits and films. The permanent exhibit halls range from Paleontology Hall, where ancient carnivores hover, to the world-renowned Cullen Hall of Gems and Minerals, home to the best display-quality collection of minerals in the world. The John P. McGovern Hall of the Americas, the Texas-size Wiess Energy Hall, which is now a model for all others, and the Welch Chemistry Hall contain interactive, hands-on displays, exhibits and a live demonstration theater.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the largest art museum in America south of Chicago, west of Washington, D.C. and east of Los Angeles. There are two major museum buildings, the Caroline Wiess Law Building and the Audrey Jones Beck Building; two facilities for the Glassell School of Art, the Studio School for Adults and the Glassell Junior School; two house museums that exhibit decorative arts, Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens and Rienzi; the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden; and 18 acres of public gardens. A total of 300,000 square feet of space is dedicated to the display of art.

Menil Collection

One of the greatest private art collections in the U.S., featuring such surrealist works as those by Salvador Dali and Max Ernst. Offers visitors a sign-free and simply designed environment in which to experience the art in a more personal way.

National Museum of Funeral History

This museum, owned by a funeral company, houses the largest collection of funereal artifacts in the U.S., traces the history of funeral services, displays historic hearses and provides memorabilia from funerals of the famous.

Neighborhoods

River Oaks Area Neighborhoods

Here is an exceptional collection of splendid mansions, secluded estates and lovely homes. Manicured lawns and profusions of azaleas beneath ancient trees. A sanctuary of calm within the city.

Without question, this is Houston's best-known neighborhood. The centerpiece of River Oaks is its namesake boulevard, a broad avenue of stately houses leading to the River Oaks Country Club's grand portico.

Spreading out from this hub today are residential choices in Avalon Place, Royden Oaks, Oak Estates, Kettering Oaks, Afton Oaks, Highland Village/Lynn Park, Glendower Court and the Upper Kirby District.

These neighborhoods have flourished and matured over the years. Great homes, old and new, pay tribute to a wealth of architectural styles--chateau, plantation, Spanish, Tudor, Palladian and traditionally styled one-stories--creating what has been described as "elegant individuality."

Memorial

In Memorial, streets are country lanes and neighborhoods are villages. The homes are secluded and the schools are outstanding.

A Memorial address signals personal achievement, showcase architecture, exceptional educational opportunities and civic pride. Here is country living with sophisticated flair.

The incorporated townships and neighborhoods that comprise Memorial offer distinct personalities, yet they share certain definite advantages. There's the lush pine and hardwood canopy that shades meandering Buffalo Bayou. Proximity to schools, churches, retail and job centers. Excellent security and city services. Protective covenants. A variety of home styles to choose, from ranch to sleek contemporary to Georgian brick mansion, with prices from 5,000 to the millions.

What especially impresses first-time Memorial visitors is just how accessible Houston's downtown is to a "place in the country." This forest of homes is only minutes from the city center via the I-10 (Katy) Freeway or the more scenic Memorial Drive route. Increasingly, executives and professionals are choosing Memorial homes for both the pleasure of their families and the convenience to work.

Tanglewood

Comfortable. Quiet. Convenient. A place that is equal parts casual and cosmopolitan. A green space. A family place. Stroll the oak-arched esplanades and you forget the sophisticated city that's so conveniently nearby.

Over the years, a dynamic Houston has brought its very best to Tanglewood's doors. A few minutes away is the world-renowned Galleria, centerpiece of a retail and business district offering famous labels, fine dining and striking architecture.

The area also hosts educational opportunities, both public and private, and many nearby churches. Within a bike ride is a family-oriented YMCA, plus any number of multi-sport city parks. Houston Country Club offers exceptional members-only golf and tennis and Houston Racquet Club offers tennis, while just to the east, Memorial Park boasts a fine public golf course and tennis courts.

A Tanglewood area resident can enjoy access to major metro thoroughfares and freeways, while still knowing the peace and pleasure that living here can bring.

Briargrove Park

Briargrove Park. A family neighborhood so pleasing it seems almost tucked away from today.

If a single snapshot could ever capture the spirit of Briargrove Park, it might be a child biking home to supper down a twilit street. Because this is a place where families are begun. And families grow. Where the homes have room for neighborhood get-togethers.

Briargrove Park prides itself on its well-tended lawns and warm welcome to newcomers.

Preserves and Parks

Hermann Park

Hermann Park, presented to the City of Houston by George Hermann in 1914, is Houston's most historically significant public green space. Over the years, the Houston Zoo, Miller Outdoor Theatre, the Houston Museum of Natural Science and the first desegregated public golf course in the U.S. have all added to the Park's importance as a recreational destination.

Shopping

The Galleria

With its stunning architecture, exceptional store mix and distinctive style of entertainment, The Galleria has established itself as the No. 1 shopping and tourist destination in Houston with over 24 million annual visitors.

Traders Village

Since Traders Village opened in Houston in 1989, millions of people have browsed, shopped and traded within the acres filled with thousands of dealers offering a little bit of everything, all at bargain prices.

Theaters

Miller Outdoor Theatre

Located in Hermann Park near downtown Houston, this open-air theater features the most diverse free season in the U.S.

Theatre Under the Stars

Outdoor Broadway shows put on in Hermann Park, with a big orchestra and lots of singers and dancers.

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