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The "San Luis Pass-Vacek Toll Bridge" or San Luis Pass Bridge was built shortly before 1970. [12] It is operated by Galveston County, Road District 1. [13] This 1.3 mile bridge has two lanes [13] and has a toll fee of $2. Surfside Beach is the closest city on the other side of Galveston along Brazoria County Road 257.
Galveston Bay (magenta), Trinity Bay (purple), East Bay (green), West Bay (orange) Galveston Bay covers approximately 600 square miles (1,600 km 2), and is 30 miles (48 km) long and 17 miles (27 km) wide. [37] The bay has an average depth of 6 feet (2 m) and a maximum undredged depth of 10 feet (3 m). [37]
The U.S. Custom House in Galveston is a simply detailed Classical Revival, two-story, brick building located near the waterfront in Galveston. The most notable features are the projecting double gallery on the west facade and the inset double galleries on the longer, north and south facades. The exterior walls are hard-fired, red-brown bricks ...
It was located on Tremont Street. The Beach Hotel was similar in style to some of the grand hotels built in the 1870s, the San Francisco Palace, the United States Hotel, and the Grand Union Hotel. Clayton equipped the Beach hotel with a mansard tower, a feature that he has also installed on the St. Mary's Infirmary in 1874. The three stories ...
The Bluewater Highway runs the length of Surfside Beach and continues northeast on Follet's Island 13 miles (21 km) to San Luis Pass and the bridge onto Galveston Island. Texas State Highway 332 begins in Surfside Beach and leads northwest past Freeport 12 miles (19 km) to Lake Jackson.
Fort Crockett is a government reservation on Galveston Island overlooking the Gulf of Mexico originally built as a defense installation to protect the city and harbor of Galveston and to secure the entrance to Galveston Bay, thus protecting the commercial and industrial ports of Galveston and Houston and the extensive oil refineries in the bay area.
The new Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier was built 1,130 feet (340 m) out over the Gulf of Mexico waters. It had its "soft" opening on May 25, 2012. [6]The new pier complex is located where the original Pleasure Pier stood from 1943 until 1961, when it was destroyed by Hurricane Carla.
The USS Flagship Hotel was a hotel, located in Galveston in the U.S. state of Texas. The 7-story 225-room hotel was built on the historic Pleasure Pier structure entirely over the Gulf of Mexico . It was a popular destination in Galveston that withstood many storms.