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Welcome to Port Arthur. We're located in on the upper Gulf Coast of Texas in south Jefferson County, with our neighbors Sabine Pass, Groves, Nederland, and Port Neches. Our area offers a variety of history, recreation, fishing, hunting, bird watching, and other attractions for the entire family. 

We have plenty of lodging and restaurants that lean on the French, Dutch, Italian, Hispanic, and Vietnamese cultures for a variety of tastes and traditions. These heritages also influence the festivals, languages, and occupations of the people of these communities in and around Port Arthur. 

Shipping is a most important element of our area. We have a deepwater port with berths for six ships at once. The refineries and chemical plants are essential to our economy. Most have docks on the Neches River, generating jobs for the workforce of a combined population that totals 110,000. Commercial fishing fleets, along with sport fishing and hunting, employ many workers. Dry docks and boat/ship/barge repair services have a special place in our economy. We have rice farming, beef cattle, crawfish farms, and offshore drilling rigs in the area as well.

Parks--we have plenty. 

The Sea Rim State Park at McFaddin Beach on Highway 87 has RV hookups, camping on the beach, a museum, a concession store, nature trails, a boardwalk in the marsh, airboat tours and a bath house with showers and restrooms. 

Sabine Pass Battleground State Historical Park includes RV hookups, boat ramp and the Dick Dowling Monument on the site of the Civil War Confederate battle; Pleasure Island Recreation Complex has a boat launch, fishing areas, public restrooms, a playground, a 40-unit RV park, "The Palms", which is a new professional public golf course. 

Children's Playgrounds are located in Port Arthur at Rose Hill; in Port Neches at Tugboat Island (the largest community built playground in Texas); Doornboos Heritage Park is in Nederland and Lion Park is located in Groves.

Within our area, there are four hospitals, along with the centrally located Southeast Texas Regional Airport with car rentals. We also offer the acclaimed Museum of the Gulf Coast featuring southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana sports and music legends, along with displays, photos, and artifacts from the prehistoric era, the time of pirates, the Civil War, oil discovery and production, maritime items and other local interests. The Texas Artists Museum Society features local artists.  Nederland's Dutch Windmill Museum/Tex Ritter Museum and Port Neches' La Acadiens Du Texas Museum house tributes to the French and Dutch settlers of our area. Groves is home to Snooper's Paradise, a 40,000 square foot store with European antiques. We also have a Civic Center with the Visitor's Center inside, a Music Park that features name performers; a Little Theatre, and a College Theatre. Central Mall and Jefferson City Shopping Center, as well as shopping opportunities from quaint boutiques and shops in each of these cities, offer a variety of department stores, cafeterias, theaters, and restaurants.

Our citizens live in moderate to expensive homes in south Jefferson County, There are four school districts, and several private schools. Lamar State College-Port Arthur is a growing, vital institution.

We have four public golf courses, bowling, public boat launches, numerous churches and houses of worship. The Buu Mon Buddhist Temple has ceremonies for visitors by appointment, the Queen of Peace Shrine and Gardens are free for walking and meditation. A beautiful, sixteen-foot shrine on the grounds of the Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church honors the Lady of Guadalupe.

We welcome you to visit our area. It's a good place to live, learn, and work; a melting pot of cultural diversity.

A driving tour of Port Arthur
 
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