Jasper (Texas)

Jasper is a city in the Deep East region of Texas.

Understand

Jasper gained a measure of notoriety when an African-American man was dragged to his death behind a pick-up truck in a gruesome lynching in 1998. Much of the town subsequently unified to express revulsion for the crime and opposition to the racial hatred that motivated it.

Get in

• US 96 south from San Augustine or north from Kirbyville and Beaumont
• US 190, about 100 miles east of Huntsville

Get around

See

• Beaty-Orton House, 200 S. Main (near Sandy Creek Park), ☎ [phone]. M-F 8AM-5PM. Historic two-story home. Donation requested. 
• Sam Rayburn Powerhouse (just off Recreation Road 255), ☎ [phone]. This sixteen story hydroelectric power plant has won awards for design. 

Do

• Sam Rayburn Reservoir. Fishing, boating. 
• Sandy Creek Park and Trail (between S, Main and Marvin Hancock Dr). Open dawn to dusk. One mile loop walking/running trail, playground and covered picnic areas. 

Buy

• Crafts & Things, ☎ [phone]. Locally made craft items. 
• Junktique, ☎ [phone]. Antiques. 
• Milam Street Gallery, ☎ [phone]. Antiques and collectibles. 

Eat

• Hamburger Depot, 283 S Wheeler St, ☎ [phone]. Local favorite for hamburgers and all the fixin's. 
• Texas Star Café, 205 N Wheeler St, ☎ [phone]. Cheap but tasty downhome cooking. 

Drink

Sleep

• Holiday Inn Express, 239 East Gibson, ☎ [phone]. Clean rooms with interior access, mini-fridge, microwave, and free internet access. 
• Ramada Inn, 239 East Gibson, ☎ [phone]. Clean rooms. Laundry service and restaurant/bar on the premises. Pets OK. 
• Super 8, 2100 North Wheeler, ☎ [phone]. Clean and relatively new. Squeamish drivers may want to pass on this one, as its parking lot exits at a rather dangerous busy intersection. 
• Swann Hotel Bed and Breakfast, 250 N Main St, ☎ [phone]. Restored wooden Victorian inn built in 1901. 

Go next

Routes through Jasper

END ← Tenaha ←	N  S	→ Beaumont → Port Arthur
Bryan-College Station ← Huntsville ←	W  E	→ Eunice → Opelousas