Corpus Christi to Angleton via TX-35 / Is this a senic route ?

[TX_F2]

This route is listed on Ride Texas as one of the 2007 10 Best Routes for the Gulf Coast area.

I am hoping it is a scenic route since it was listed as one of the 10 best routes in the Ride Texas magazine, but by looking at Mapquest it looks like the route is mostly just highway (TX-35) with stretches of "middle of nowhere" type scenery.

Has anyone been on this route or parts of it before ?

Are there any interesting things to do /see in Angleton ?



I am thinking of doing this route tomorrow morning (2/13/08), but don't really want to take a 350 mi round trip with nothing to look at other than farm fields ect. (sort of like the boring ride on I-37 going from Corpus Christi to San Antonio)


TIA

[Jack Giesecke]

This route is listed on Ride Texas as one of the 2007 10 Best Routes for the Gulf Coast area.

I am hoping it is a scenic route since it was listed as one of the 10 best routes in the Ride Texas magazine, but by looking at Mapquest it looks like the route is mostly just highway (TX-35) with stretches of "middle of nowhere" type scenery.

Has anyone been on this route or parts of it before ?

Are there any interesting things to do /see in Angleton ?



I am thinking of doing this route tomorrow morning (2/13/08), but don't really want to take a 350 mi round trip with nothing to look at other than farm fields ect. (sort of like the boring ride on I-37 going from Corpus Christi to San Antonio)


TIA

Well, its sorta pretty, I guess, if you don't live here. :lol2: They surely didn't choose this route for curves, I can tell ya that! There ain't a bend in the highway from Corpus to Angleton, straight as an arrow. It crosses or rides along a lot of water and scenery seems to be high on Ride Texas' list being mostly a cruiser magazine.

You could go by the Brazoria County museum in Angleton and give my Cousin Jamie a hollar.:mrgreen: She works there. Our family is from Angleton originally. However, if you're interested in modifying that route and seeing some history, I'd suggest riding through Palacios to FM521 and hang a right. It takes you past the South Texas Nuke plant and on to Wadsworth, then Brazoria. Hang a right on 36 and ride into Jones Creek. I cannot remember the road, but just past the light at 2611 that goes into Lake Jackson on the other side of the prison farm, there is a road to the right off 36. There may be a sign there saying "Peach Point Presbyterian Church that way", believe there is. In this little church's grave yard are some of the oldest anglo graves in Texas including Stephen F Austin himself who was moved to Austin in 1922, but his head stone is still there with a historical marker. This was Austins plantation home and church.

You could then backtrack down 36 and take 2611 into Lake Jackson and hit 332 to Surfside and take the blue water highway up to Galveston over the toll bridge at San Luis pass, but then, you might have seen all that already. BUT, you won't miss a thing detouring down 521 at Palacios. The end of the scenery on 35 is Palacios. You could go on up to Angleton from Lake Jackson and, actually, it's closer up 521 than going 35 all the way.

The one thing you might wanna check out up 35 past Palacios is the Hog plantation in West Columbia. If so, you can just run up 36 from Jones Creek to West Columbia and continue on. Just get out the maps and check out the route, but it's hard to get lost. Well I say that, but then I grew up there.:lol2:

Another thing you could do is go on into Freeport and over the old river bridge in Valasco and out to 332, but you might get a little turned around. I suppose by the time you get to Jones Creek, though, you'll have seen plenty of shrimp boats and chemical plants.:rofl:

Number FIVE on the list, eh? Hmm, Miguel map that one out or was it a rider's survey thing? Strange. But, then, I talk to people that were raised in the mountains and hate 'em. All in what you are used to I reckon. :lol2:

Oh, if you're hungry near Rockport, I can recommend the "Big Fisherman". :eat: :eat: :eat: :eat:

[TX_F2]

Thanks a bunch Jack ! :rider:

[Jack Giesecke]

Thanks a bunch Jack ! :rider:

Sent ya a PM with my number if your butt gets itchy by Port Lavaca and ya need a break. Only 83 miles, not exactly iron butt distance I guess.:lol2:

[NX2000]

+1 to what Jack said. I lived in that area a long time, the 521 route is a much better choice.

[C50dreamin]

+1 to what Jack said. I lived in that area a long time, the 521 route is a much better choice.


Yep that's my daily route to work...:mrgreen:

[TX_F2]

Sent ya a PM with my number if your butt gets itchy by Port Lavaca and ya need a break. Only 83 miles, not exactly iron butt distance I guess.:lol2:

PM'd you back, I'll give you a call when I hit Port Lavaca.

Pff ! On the VFR with my Corbin seat, 83 miles is just a warm up ride. lol


NX2000 +1 to what Jack said. I lived in that area a long time, the 521 route is a much better choice.

Yep that's my daily route to work...:mrgreen:


Thanks for the advice guys :thumb:

[Jack Giesecke]

Yep that's my daily route to work...:mrgreen:

I got laid off in 82 from Dow in Freeport, worked for "process research and engineering", pilot plant technician. So, I got on at Formosa Plastics doing enviromental stuff in the lab there and drove from my home in Holiday Shores, on the San Bernard just out of Brazoria off 521, past the nuke plant, on to Point Comfort every day for a friggin' year. 80 miles one way. I got to where I could make it in under an hour even with all the nuke plant construction traffic, but I got two tickets that year. :lol2: I'd see a major accident about every week on that road, too, right at the peak of the construction on STNP.

One of my tickets, I was on my GS750, came out of the bend where Chinquapin road splits off (only decent curves in the route) out of Wadsworth. I stood 'er up out of the corner was over 100 mph, looked up and a DPS was coming out of the creek around the bend down the road from me. I SLAMMED the brakes and he caught me at 73 (was a 55 limit then) decelerating.:doh: :rofl: I used to tear that road up on the old GS. I'm lucky to be alive. :rofl:

[NX2000]

I grew up in a house on FM 521 about a mile east of FM 457. Two story house, close to the road on the other side of Caney Creek where is is nearest the road. Between my XL-75 and my XL-185s I spent a lot of time up and down the creek bank and in different dry ponds in the area.

In late 82 through the fall of 83 I worked at the store at the corner of 521 and 457. It was an old school country store, in addition to other things I did I pumped gas there. I wouldn’t be surprised that we met back then.

I know your Chinquapin curves well too, almost ate it there on more than one occasion. Was also fun to ride a little east of there around the Peyton Creek bridge, where there was a few (baby) hills and a curve just past the bridge. It’s not like that anymore they redid the bridge and straightened that curve out somewhat.

[genjac]

The end of the scenery on 35 is Palacios.

I live in this area too folks. I'm at 2611 and the San Bernard River. Apparently there are a bunch of us around here. We need to get together and organize a ride or two! PM me if you're interested.

Jack, you have some good suggestions and I agree with everything you said up until the "end of the scenery" part. I like the run past Palacios, on down 35 through the bays, Port Lavaca, Aransas Wildlife Refuge, and on to Rockport/Fulton and Port Aransas. Good seafood there too!

Also your suggestion of getting over on 521 was a good idea. Going through Wadsworth and around STP is better than going through BayCity. I might add: I like taking 2611 (2004) out of Lake Jackson to 457 then picking up 521 south of Brazoria. (there's Sargent and Matagorda along that route if you're interested)

As far as things to see in Angleton....:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[NX2000]

My dad still has a lot on Las Playas, however it is spelled. I don't think anyone could find it, but he owns it, lol.

I live in this area too folks. I'm at 2611 and the San Bernard River.

[Jack Giesecke]

Jack, you have some good suggestions and I agree with everything you said up until the "end of the scenery" part. I like the run past Palacios, on down 35 through the bays, Port Lavaca, Aransas Wildlife Refuge, and on to Rockport/Fulton and Port Aransas. Good seafood there too!

No, no, he's headed up the coast. What I'm sayin' is you leave the bays and water behind at Palacios heading into Bay City, should detour on 521, except for the fact that you'll have to backtrack to West Columbia to go to the Hogg Estate.

In late 82 through the fall of 83 I worked at the store at the corner of 521 and 457. It was an old school country store, in addition to other things I did I pumped gas there. I wouldn’t be surprised that we met back then.

You're talking about Four Forks, right? I used to gas up there from time to time, probably did when you were there. :mrgreen: Most of the time I stopped in Wadsworth or gassed up before leaving, but occasionally reserve tank hit and I'd pull over at Four Forks. That old store is shut down, now, I believe.

My house was on the back side of Holiday Shores. I grew up in Jones Creek, went to 5th grade through HS at BISD, exporters. My mom bought that lot when Holiday Shores was being developed in the 60s and I bought it from her. I would take the back road into Freeport. there was no bridge or way into Lack Jackson on 2611 at the time, road ended at Hwy 36. So, when I worked at plant A, I'd run the back road down to the prison farm out of Holiday Shores, make a right and the road went around and ran into 2611 back side of the prison farm. I'd run up to 36 on 2611 and into Freeport.

Then, when I was working at Plant B, I'd run into Brazoria and over the bridge and down 332. Man, I don't miss THAT traffic....:rolleyes: That new bridge and the extension of 2611 into Lake Jackson was sorely needed and rumored even back when I was a kid in the 60s! They finally got around to doing it, of course, after I'd moved. :rolleyes:

I used to hunt and fish down around the mouth of the San Bernard and the San Bernard refuge (public goose and duck hunting) and around Sargent. I prefer it down here, less crowded, right on the bay, yet on a 22 ft bluff. Lots of hunting and fishing around me, lots more than I had there, a place to shoot, and some land to deer and hog hunt on. All in all, the move was better for me for what I like doing. The roads suck, but they did pretty much up there, too, LOL! There are some neat twisties on an FM road not too far from me over in Edna, though, when I get in the mood. :mrgreen: My mom's gone now, cousins still live in Lake Jackson and Angleton, but I don't get up there too often. I could be talked into riding up there to meet some folks and ride sometime, though. :mrgreen:

Edit, just figured out which store at 457, the Cedar Lane road goes to Sargent, er, I guess. :mrgreen: Yeah, I gassed up there all the time, too. Which ever store it was, I used the gas pumps there. I did try to avoid Four Forks because the gas was a little higher there. And, yeah, I do that route and down 2611 to Lake Jackson, but I didn't wanna get the man lost....:rofl: It's quicker if he's going to Jones Creek to see Austin's grave, but he could wind up getting lost and putting more time in that it's worth.