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Lumberton Texas

Welcome to Lumberton, Texas ... Home of Village Creek State Park

The City of Lumberton is located north of Beaumont, south of Woodville, and southeast of Livingston, in Hardin County in East Texas.

The town was established as a stop on the Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City Railway that was built through the area in 1894. Serving the local sawmills and lumber camps, the post office was established at Lumberton in 1909.

Lumberton Area Attractions

Attractions in Hardin County include:

  • Big Thicket National Preserve
  • Village Creek State Park,
  • Village Creek Paddling Trail
  • Roy E. Larson “Sandyland” Sanctuary.

Nearby attractions include:

  • Sea Rim State Park
  • Martin Dies Jr. State Park
  • Cattail Marsh
  • Pleasure Island

There are numerous museums in nearby Beaumont:

  • The Fire Museum of Texas
  • John Jay French House,
  • Spindletop Oil Museum,
  • McFaddin-Ward House,
  • Texas Energy Museum
  • Clifton Steamboat Museum
 Lumberton Website Resources

City of Lumberton Texas

Hardin County Texas

Lumberton Independent School District

Lumberton Chamber of Commerce

Lumberton Public Library

CHRISTUS Family Medicine - Lumberton

Village Creek State Park

Big Thicket National Preserve

Martin Dies Jr. State Park

Population
In 2020, Lumberton had a population of 13,554
Area Code
409
Zip Code
77657

 

Travel Information for the Lumberton Area


Scenes Around Lumberton

Lumberton, Texas City Hall at 836 North Main Street
Lumberton, Texas City Hall at 836 North Main Street


Freedom Park in Lumberton, Texas

Freedom Park

Freedom Park is located behind City Hall and offers a place for quiet reflection to honor our Service Men and Women as well as our Fallen Heroes.

It also has a Gazebo where many couples have joined together in marriage.

The park is located at 836 North Main Street. Highly recommended!


Lumberton City Park

City Park in Lumberton, Texas

FM 421 City Park is the newest addition to our parks in Lumberton, Texas. This 100-acre facility offers something for everyone. The one-mile road around the interior of the park offers an excellent place for walking, bike riding, etc.

There are several covered picnic areas complete with barbeque grills, a fenced-in playground area, and volleyball courts. You will also find a world class 18-hole disc golf course. The large covered pavilion with a stage and four dressing rooms is a great venue for weddings, concerts, or plays and is available for rent .

The park is located at 1300 FM 421 in Lumberton.

 

Village Creek State Park in Texas

Village Creek State Park

Village Creek State Park’s 1,090 heavily forested acres are located in the Hardin County town of Lumberton, 10 miles north of Beaumont. The state acquired the property in 1979, and the park opened in 1994.

Village Creek State Park takes its name from Village Creek, a free-flowing stream that rises near the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation. The creek meanders 69 miles southeast to a junction with the Neches River. The river in turn eventually empties into the Gulf of Mexico.

Village Creek is a very popular flat-water canoeing stream in the heart and soul of what remains of the Big Thicket. Heavy rainfall severely floods the banks of Village Creek every three or four years.

Here visitors can camp, picnic, fish, hike, mountain bike, swim, geocache, study nature and view wildlife. A covered picnic pavilion can also be rented for group gatherings.

Portions of the park lie in the floodplains of Village Creek and the Neches River. Bottomland hardwood forests full of cypress-tupelo swamps, baygall and backwater sloughs abound here. These wetlands provide habitat for beaver and river otter, as well as for many kinds of fish, snakes, turtles and frogs.

Birders will enjoy seeing wood ducks, egrets, herons, woodpeckers and owls, just to name a few. Over 200 species of birds are native to the Big Thicket area.

It is located at 8854 Park Road 74 in Lumberton.

Village Creek State Park at Texas Parks and Wildlife

Peaceful lake scene at Village Creek State Park in Texas


Martin Dies, Jr. State Park

Martin Dies, Jr. State Park in Texas

In the 1960s, development of a new state park along Steinhagen reservoir began, with support from local East Texans and their state senator, Martin Dies, Jr.

Today, Martin Dies, Jr. State Park is a 705-acre recreation area nestled next to B.A. Steinhagen Reservoir between Woodville and Jasper. The park has three units in Jasper and Tyler counties. TPWD leased the park’s land from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1964, and officially opened in 1965.

The park offers a variety of outdoor activities, including camping at over 200 campsites, paddling, fishing, swimming, hiking, biking and more.

The park is located at 634 Park Road 48 South, Jasper, TX 75951

Martin Dies Jr. State Park at Texas Parks and Wildlife

Canoe ride on the quiet waters at Martin Dies, Jr. State Park in Texas



Big Thicket National Preserve in Southeast Texas

Big Thicket National Preserve

The Big Thicket is an area of dense forest located north and northwest of Beaumont, and south of Woodville. This 97,000 acre National Preserve protects a unique environmental confluence of swamps, coastal prairies, piney woods, plant life and animals.

For more information visit the Big Thicket website at NPS


Sea Rim State Park

Sea Rim State Park

Offering more than five miles of natural Gulf of Mexico beach shoreline, Sea Rim State Park is where the marsh meets the surf, making it prime binocular-hunting grounds for numerous species.

Bring a kayak or canoe (or rent one at the park) and paddle along one of its paddle trails, or comb the sand for sea treasures that wash up on the shore.

Details at Texas Parks and Wildlife


Interactive Map of Lumberton Texas (courtesy of Google)


Map of South East Texas Showing the Location of Lumberton

Map of South East Texas Showing the Location of Lumberton

Other East Texas Attractions

While visiting the Lumberton area, you may want to take other interesting day trips in several directions:

    • Livingston - Polk County Memorial Museum, Pedigo Park, Trade Days, Locomotive No. 5, Lake Livingston, Sam Rayburn Reservoir
    • Coldspring - Davy Crockett National Forest, Sam Houston National Forest, Lake Livingston, Double Lake Recreational Area
    • Groveton - Ratcliff Lake Recreation Area, Davy  Crockett National Forest
    • Crockett - Houston County Museum, Monroe-Cook House, Houston County Lake, Grapeland Drive-Thru Safari, Piney Woods Fine Arts Association
    • Woodville - Tyler County Dogwood Festival, Festival of the Arts and the Harvest Festival. Outdoor activities abound in the nearby Martin Dies Jr. State Park and the Big Thicket National Preserve.
    • Hemphill - Recreational opportunities abound in the Hemphill area, with its closeness to the Sabine National Forest, Toledo Bend Reservoir, Sam Rayburn Reservoir and the Trail Between the Lakes. Also popular attractions are the Sabine County Jail Museum and Vergie Speights Memorial Library. In town is the Patricia Huffman Smith NASA "Remembering Columbia" Museum
    • Port Arthur - Pompeiian Villa, Sea Rim State Park, Museum of the Gulf Coast, Sabine Pass Battleground State Historical Park, Dutch Windmill Museum and the French House
    • Orange - Frances Lutcher Theater for the Performing Arts, Shangri La Botanical Gardens, W.H. Stark House, Stark Museum of Art, Blue Elbow Swamp & Tony Houseman WMA
    • Rusk - Texas State Railroad, Cherokee Civic Theatre, Grapeland Drive Thru Safari
    • Lufkin - Ellen Trout Zoo, Cotton Square Heritage Park, First Street Arts Center, Texas Forestry Museum
    • Beaumont - Ben J. Rogers Regional Visitors Center, Beaumont Botanical Gardens, Crockett Street Entertainment District, McFaddin-Ward House and Museum, Texas Energy Museum, Fire Museum of Texas, Babe Didrikson Zaharias Memorial Museum, St. Anthony Cathedral Basilica, and the Big Thicket National Preserve